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- He studied philosophy at Glasgow University, but was drawn into film-making through post-graduate study in the US on the influence of mass media on public opinion. His ground-breaking work on the Scottish herring fleet, Drifters, had its premiere in 1929 alongside the first British showing of Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin.
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John Grierson was the founder of the British documentary-film movement and its leader for almost 40 years. He was one of the first to see the potential of motion pictures to shape people’s attitudes toward life and to urge the use of films for educational purposes.
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Dec 3, 2007 · On a Rockefeller scholarship to the University of Chicago, Grierson began his lifelong study of the influence of media on public opinion. In Hollywood to study film, he befriended the American filmmaker Robert Flaherty, whose haunting film Nanook of the North celebrated the daily survival of an Inuit hunter.
Dec 28, 2011 · Pioneering Scottish filmmaker John Grierson (1898-1972) is often considered the father of documentary film and credited with coining the very term “documentary” in his review of Robert Flaherty’s film Moana in the February 8, 1926, issue of the New York Sun.
Jul 5, 2024 · John Grierson transformed the documentary film into a means for social advocacy and education. His contributions not only shaped the British documentary-film movement but also set the stage for future filmmakers to explore more radical and diverse perspectives.
John Grierson. Dr. John Grierson CBE (1898-1972) was born in Perthshire, Scotland, son of a local school headmaster. He studied philosophy at Glasgow University, but was drawn into film-making through post-graduate study in the US on the influence of mass media on public opinion.
Grierson made his first film, Drifters (1929), out of his one-bedroom apartment using the kitchen table as an editing bench and the bathroom as a projection booth. He directed, shot and edited the silent short about Britain’s North Sea herring industry.
Feb 19, 2022 · Heading back to Britain in 1927, Grierson began working for the Empire Film Board, a nakedly propagandist agency of the Government. For them he made his ground-breaking first film The Drifters in 1929.
