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Funeral Of General Grierson

Date released

27 Aug 1914

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

358

NoS ID

075735

Story no

1 / 6

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Drifters/Caller Herrin’ (2002)

Director

John Grierson; Alan Harper

Subject

Agriculture; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 60 minutes), £19.99

Two films on North Sea herring fleets. One is the classic John Grierson film DRIFTERS and the other was made in 1947 for the Scottish Home Department.

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B.B.C. The Voice of Britain (1935 Film)

Director

Stuart Legg

Producer

John Grierson; Stuart Legg

Documentary. Celebrated impressionist study of the work of the BBC. Includes scenes of a rehearsal for a radio broadcast of Macbeth, featuring the three witches, one of whom is played by documentary film...

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Blaze Atlantic Air Trail

Date released

7 Aug 1933

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

255

NoS ID

032775

Story no

2 / 6

John Grierson takes off to survey commercial sky-route, Britain to US. Before hazardous hop, flyer explains how wireless will guide him.

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Seawards the Great Ships (1960 Video)

Director

Hilary Harris

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

A testimony to the achievements of the shipbuilders on the Clyde and to the men of the ‘black squads’. Shows work from blueprint-making to the launching of the tanker ‘British Trust’. With treatment...

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Colour Box, A (1935 Video)

Director

Len Lye

Subject

Film & television production; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. Dufaycolor. 4 min.

Len Lye pioneered the technique of painting directly on to the film negative, and this is the first film that he brought to John Grierson. Grierson liked the film and told him to go away and paint the new...

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Soviet Influence, The: Battleship Potemkin / Drifters (2012)

Director

Sergei Eisenstein; John Grierson

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 124 minutes), £19.99

The second in the BFI’s series looking at the influence of silent Soviet films on British filmmakers of the 1930s pairs Sergei Eisenstein’s 1929 film BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN) with John...

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Granton Trawler (1934 Video)

Director

John Grierson

Producer

John Grierson

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 11 min.

Shows a trawler out fishing on the Viking Bank. ‘In the thirties we were all in it together,' Grierson said. ‘We could all edit well. We could all write well. There was no part we couldn’t do, even...

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Brave Don’t Cry, The (1952)

Director

Philip Leacock

Producer

John Grierson

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 179 minutes), £16.33

A reconstruction of a disaster at Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery, Ayrshire, in 1950, dramatises the tense events of the rescue of miners trapped underground after a pit shaft was flooded and nine men were...

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Mr Documentary

Date released

1968

Series name

London Line (Colour series 2)

Issue no

35

NoS ID

350236

Story no

3 / 3

COI synopsis: London Line meets the man who invented the word, and the film form documentary. Michael Smee talks to Scotsman John Grierson in the London Line studio about some of his works which have become...

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