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      • Jill Craigie (born Noreen Jean Craigie; 7 March 1911 [ 1] – 13 December 1999) [ 2] was a British documentary filmmaker, screenwriter and feminist. She was one of Britain's earliest female documentary makers. [ 3]
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    Jill Craigie (born Noreen Jean Craigie; 7 March 1911 [1] – 13 December 1999) [2] was a British documentary filmmaker, screenwriter and feminist. She was one of Britain's earliest female documentary makers. [3]

  3. Jul 2, 2021 · Jill Craigie: the woman who did. The British filmmaker’s long marriage to Michael Foot has overshadowed her courageous, pioneering career in documentary film.

  4. Jul 14, 2021 · The Jill Craigie: Film Pioneer project is using a breadth of archival sources to re-evaluate Craigie’s work as a filmmaker and to explore a broader view of her career as a writer, media...

  5. Jill Craigie (1911 – 1999) was one of Britains earliest women documentary makers. Her career as a pioneering film-maker has been largely eclipsed in public memory by her position as a public advocate for feminism and as the wife of former Labour party leader, Michael Foot.

  6. Mar 22, 2022 · This essay explores how The Way We Live and Blue Scar, Craigie’s two ‘indigenous’ films from the 1940s, negotiated young women’s lives and individual aspirations as part of an exploration of processes that were reorganizing local ways of life and work in the immediate post-war years.

  7. Jill Craigie (1911 – 1999) was one of Britains earliest women documentary makers. Her career as a pioneering film-maker has been largely eclipsed in public memory by her position as a public advocate for feminism and as the wife of former Labour party leader, Michael Foot.

  8. Jill Craigie (1911 – 99) was better known in later life as the wife of Michael Foot, the Labour leader who contested Margaret Thatcher’s bid for a second term in 1983. Yet, she had a remarkable earlier career as one of the few women to break into film directing in the 1940s.