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19 de feb. de 2022 · TODAY marks the 50th anniversary of the death of John Grierson, Scotland’s hugely influential filmmaker. He is widely renowned as the father of documentary film, not least because he coined the term “documentary” as long ago as 1926. Older readers may remember him as the presenter of the innovative Scottish Television programme This ...
Sanctum. Sanctum was the 8th Highest grossing Australian film of all time having taken over US $110 M worldwide (@2011). The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth.
Drifters (1929) is silent documentary film by John Grierson, his first and only personal film.. It tells the story of Britain's North Sea herring fishery. The film's style has been described as being a "response to avant-garde, Modernist films, adopting formal techniques such as montage – constructive editing emphasising the rhythmic juxtaposition of images – but also aimed to make a ...
25 de nov. de 2019 · Grierson, who saw film as a means of education, even (unlike the American mass communication theorists) used the term “propaganda”: “The key to education in the modern complex world no longer exists in what we have known as education but in what we have known as propaganda.” 8 According to Grierson, the aim of education is to “give to every individual, each in his place and work, a ...
5 de nov. de 2017 · John Grierson – Drifters (1929) The story of the North Sea herring fisheries, filmed at Lerwick, in the Shetlands, Lowestoft and Yarmouth and in the North Sea. — Henry K Miller, From Battleship Potemkin to Drifters, BFI booklet wrote: The London Film Society’s screening of Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin (1925) and John Grierson ...
Grierson describes him not only as a pioneering filmmaker and honoured ancestor but also as an exponent of a ‘neoRousseauism’ that he hoped would die out with ‘his own exceptional self’.67 Grierson eschews Flaherty’s focus, in films such as Nanook of the North and Moana (1926), on ‘traditional’ societies and expresses a preference ...
In June 1937 Grierson resigned from the GPO and formed Film Centre, an advisory and co-ordinating body for the documentary film movement. It was this kind of supervisory capacity that characterised Grierson 's role and influence on factual film, with him also acting as production advisor to Films of Scotland , and, throughout the war, serving as Film Commissioner at the National Film Board of ...
