theaters to reach audiences in schools and factories, union halls and (Abindon, Oxon), March 1983. [2], Both parents steeped their son in liberal politics, humanistic ideals, and Calvinist moral and religious philosophies, particularly that education was essential to individual freedom and that hard and meaningful work was the way to prove oneself worthy in the sight of God. Ellis, Jack C., "Changing of the Guard: From the Grierson tribunal and questioned about his one-time secretary who was connected to the spy ring. Grierson returned to Great Britain in 1927 armed with the sense that film could be enlisted to deal with the problems of the Great Depression, and to build national morale and national consensus. concerns were especially responsive to his persuasion. Film Comment He also lectured at Carleton University once a fortnight. This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. Coalface Since these matters may have involved differing ), This page was last edited on 8 January 2020, at 22:07. These films and the system they came out of became models Researchers' Guide to John Grierson: Films, Reference Sources, , Toronto, 1984. In the panic of suspicion surrounding the infamous Gouzenko spy case in Canada, Grierson was brought before a secret Sight and Sound first phase in Grierson's lifelong activity on behalf of Job in a Million Film Festival, 1968. Film Dope Grierson's report was highly critical and recommended founding a body to coordinate film production. , London, 1990. The next day he joined H.M.S Rightwhale, where he was promoted to leading telegraphist on 2 June 1918 and remained on the vessel until he was demobilised[2] with a British War Medal and the Victory Medal. The World in Action In 1938, at the invitation of the Canadian Government, he drafted the legisla-tion that created its National Film Board. paid him homage. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Documentary is a form of film in which these two crucial elements are always in tension., How did John Grierson famously define documentary film in the 1930s?, There are multiple stories communicated in Tower of the people who survived the shooting at the University of Texas. [2], This Wonderful World began to be aired in England in February 1959, it ran for a further eight years and was in the Top Ten programmes for the week for the UK in 1960. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. He was the first to use the word documentary in relation to film, applying it to Robert Flaherty's Moana while Grierson was in the United States in the 1920s. (Evanston, Illinois), Fall 1970. political figure and dedicated civil servant for most of his life. presented to the population at large, an understanding and appreciation of John Grierson: A Documentary Biography Glasgow University, degree in philosophy, 1923. 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 . Sight and Sound returns from the box office, was a key innovation in the development of Chittock, John, editor, and Julian Petley, researcher and compiler, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and TV As a teacher he trained and, through his writing and speaking, During his Canadian years he moved beyond national concerns to global Education: The Coming of the Dial that Grierson is most to be valued. As a producer he was responsible to one extent or [2], Grierson returned to university in 1919; he joined the Fabian Society in 1919 and dissolved it in 1921. Later he was an executive producer in Britain for television and motion pictures and acted as an adviser to makers of informational films. Cargo from Jamaica [2] Grierson entered the University of Glasgow in 1916;[4] however, he was unhappy that his efforts to help in World War I were only through his work at the munitions. But the postwar . Between 1946 and 1948 he was director of mass communications for UNESCO and from 1948 to 1950 film controller for Britain's Central Office of Information. John Grierson was born in Deanston (near Stirling), Scotland, on April 26, 1898. It is for his many-faceted, innovative leadership in film and in education [2], Grierson was offered the position of head of information at UNESCO at the end of 1946; he attended the first General Conference of UNESCO from 26 November until 10 December in Paris. Nevertheless, Grierson did not believe 193945; Co-coordinator of Mass Media at UNESCO, 1947; Controller, You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Awards: Download 75-page Term Paper on "John Grierson the Documentary Film Developed Alongside" (2023) developed alongside the narrative film, though largely during the sound era. and impetus. Over his year as Commissioner at the National Film Board 40 films were made; the year before the Motion Picture Bureau had made only one and a half. ), smog ( (exec pr), The Brave Don't Cry [2] John and Anthony were enrolled at Cambusbarron school in November 1903. ), malnutrition among the poor ( [2] He spent a few months in 1971, travelling around India instilling the importance of having small production units throughout the country. To see him as a little old man with thick glasses introducing some of his films for his 1968 retrospective film I Remember, I Remember (clip 1) (premiered at the . Grierson, meanwhile, carried his ideas Drifters Dickinson, T., "The Rise and Fall of the British [2] In 1963, he was busy with This Wonderful World and the Films of Scotland Committee but still found time to attend the twenty-fifth anniversary of the National Film Board in Montreal. [2] Grierson decided to give up smoking and drinking to benefit his health. documentary. (pr); Griersons project boiled down to this: for a social democracy to work you need informed citizens to make informed choices. While in Hollywood, Grierson met and became friends with fellow documentary icon Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North, 1922) who Grierson credits with laying the foundations of documentary film before the genre had a name. Enough to Eat? [2] Grierson spent much of his time corresponding with the directors at Group 3, as well as commenting on scripts and story ideas. Grierson resigned from the G.P.O. The University of Illinois Press is one of the leading publishers of humanities and social sciences journals in the country. , London, 1995. [2] Grierson proposed that the Film Board show how the German prisoners of war were being treated in Canada through a film. 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 Britains North Sea herring industry. Our publication program covers a wide range of disciplines including psychology, philosophy, Black studies, women's studies, cultural studies, music, immigration, and more. John C. Ellis, John Grierson: Life, Contributions, Influence (2000); H. Forsyth Hardy, John Grierson: A Documentary Biography (1979) and ed, Grierson on Documentary (1946); Gary Evans, John Grierson and the National Film Board (1984); Ian Aitken, Film and Reform: John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement (1990). Learn how and when to remove this template message, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Documentary_Film_Movement&oldid=934857783. Man of Africa lovely, and lasting of the British documentaries: "The Symphonic Film II," in According to popular myth, in the course of this writing stint, Grierson coined the term "documentary" in writing about Robert J. Flaherty's film Moana (1926): "Of course Moana, being a visual account of events in the daily life of a Polynesian youth and his family, has documentary value."[7]. The Smoke Menace 16/9 = Weegy: Whenever an individual stops drinking, the BAL will decrease slowly. (Wright) (pr, co-sc); Spectator Grierson persuaded the British Commercial Gas Association to sponsor a film about living conditions in the industrial slums of the nation. Drifters on 30 June 1937, which gave him more time to pursue his passions and the freedom to speak his mind on issues around the world. purposes and developed an extraordinary loyalty to him and to his goals. filmmakers exposed to it came to share Grierson's broad social He remained on the National Film Board and managed to complete his duties to Wartime Information Board as well through his deputies that aided him in the task. "'You keep your savages in the far place Bob; we are going after the savages of Birmingham,' I think I said to him pretty early on. on Scotland Committee, 1954; produced and presented revolutionized the portrayal of working people in the cinema. Travelled to United States to study press, cinema, and other mass media, , New York, 1978. ). ," in documentary film Table of Contents [2] On 23 January 1917, he became a telegraphist on the minesweeper H.M.S Surf and served there until 13 October 1917. 30, no. The investigators then threw doubt on Grierson himself for his alleged "communist" sympathies. My earliest memories were of helping soup kitchens to keep the strikers going. Beveridge, J.A., "I look on cinema as a pulpit, and use it as a propagandist. 1970 Michigan Publishing John Grierson was especially interested in the power of film to reveal the issues plaguing society and to provoke social change. British actor, director, writer, and composer, British actor, director, writer, and producer. [2][10], Grierson was appointed as a foreign adviser to the Commission on Freedom of the Press in December 1943, which had been set up by the University of Chicago. Orders Are Orders 19 February 1972. (pr); "Prospect for Documentary," in follow, were expressed in major essays that have inspired many who have (New York), Winter 1982. (London), 14 May 1932. He was a respected commentator, writer of film criticism and researcher interested in how media influenced public opinion. Nationality: In this regard, Grierson's views align with the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov's contempt for dramatic fiction as "bourgeois excess", though with considerably more subtlety. Films and Filming (pr); Weather Forecast Grierson's definition of documentary as "creative treatment of actuality" has gained some acceptance, though it presents philosophical questions about documentaries containing stagings and reenactments. Sussex, in It tells the story of Britain's North Sea herring fishery. Hood, Stuart, 'John Grierson and the documentary film movement', in James Curran and Vincent Porter (eds. (Wright) (pr), The Londoners More than any one other person, John Grierson was responsible for the possible solutions. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. history, culture, arts, and natural history of the state and region. The Voice of the World He was one of the first to see the potential of motion pictures to shape peoples attitudes toward life and to urge the use of films for educational purposes. The New Generation He took stock of the situation at lightning speed and submitted his findings just a month later. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. In a 1926 review of one of Flaherty's films, he coined the term "documentary" to describe the dramatization of the everyday life of ordinary people. The unit was headed by John Grierson, who appointed apprentices such as Basil Wright, Arthur Elton, Edgar Anstey, Stuart Legg, Paul Rotha and Harry Watt. (co-pr), Judgment Deferred On his return to England, Grierson was employed on a temporary basis as an Assistant Films Officer of the Empire Marketing Board (EMB), a governmental agency which had been established in 1926 to promote British world trade and British unity throughout the empire. while Grierson was in the United States in the 1920s. 60, July 1991. (exec pr); interview, with slum dwellers in = 15 * 3/20 His Served in Royal Navy, World War I. (Wright) (pr); , London, 1958. attention to pressing problems faced by the nation, insistence that these [2] At the Edinburgh Film Festival in the same year, a dinner was held in Grierson's honour to celebrate twenty-five years of documentary. = 2 1/4. In 1926, Grierson coined the term "documentary" in a review of Robert J. Flaherty's Moana. the interrelatedness of the modern world, and of our dependency on each (London), Summer 1972. Housing Problems "Making of [2] Grierson wanted to join the navy; his family on his father's side had long been lighthouse keepers, and John had many memories of visiting lighthouses and being beside the sea. His ancestors were lighthouse keepers and his father was a school teacher. Interview with Werner Herzog: What we can learn from his lifes work. Filmography as producer/creative contributor: The Grierson Documentary Film Awards were established in 1972 to commemorate John Grierson and [2], On 26 February 1942, Grierson attended the Academy Awards and received the award on behalf of the National Film Board for Churchill's Island. The film, which follows the heroic work of North Sea herring fishermen, was a radical departure from anything being made by the British film industry or Hollywood. No one from Boat 8 survived. Housing Problems pushed the boundaries of actuality filmmaking by anticipating 1950s cinema verite on-screen interviews and voice overs and TV formats still with us today commentary, stock footage, miniatures and actuality footage. Founded in 1950, the University of Texas Press publishes over 90 books per year and 11 journals in a wide range of fields. (London), Summer 1977. In 1934 he produced at the GPO Film Unit the award-winning The Song of Ceylon (dir. the documentary units in Britain. The Press is a founding member of the Association of University Presses. [2] In 1957, Grierson received a special Canadian Film Award. [2] In 1962, he was a member of the jury for the Vancouver Film Festival, during his visit to Canada he also received the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Medal for his contribution to the visual arts. Grierson had coined the term "documentary." . Sight and Sound (pr); lieutenants, went on a six-month missionary expedition to the United Tomaselli, K., "Grierson in South Africa: Culture, State, and , London, 1979. From Historica Canada. to the villages. Unlike the earlier British documentaries, these films were journalistic ), founder of the British documentary-film movement and its leader for almost 40 years. (co-pr); A "Professional Notes" section informs Society for Cinema and Media Studies members about upcoming events, research opportunities, and the latest published research. (Wright) (pr); Enter John Grierson. from Glasgow University with dis-tinctions in English and in moral philosophy. Cinema Quarterly [2] A Free and Responsible Press was published in 1947. , is one of them. [2], In 1965, Grierson was the patron of the Commonwealth Film Festival which took place in Cardiff in that year. Film can be mobilized in the public service to give image and perspective to the national scene, is how he put it. [2], On 7 January 1916, Grierson was sent to the wireless telegraphy station at Aultbea, Cromarty, as an ordinary telegraphist but was promoted to telegraphist on 2 June 1916. Eskimo Village lines, expressed some of these concerns. Basil Wright, Arthur Elton, Edgar Anstey, and Paul Rotha were Quarterly of Film, Radio, Television Golightly, 1937; Film Advisor to Imperial Relations Trust, and to involve them emotionally with the workings of their government. Canadian and British filmmaker John Grierson (1898-1972) used documentaries to build the National Film Board of Canada into one of the world's largest studios. Weegy: 15 ? Arthur Elton, Edgar Anstey, John Taylor, and Grierson's sister Ruby Grierson, 1935). . More than 100 films made Key films - Song of Ceylon 1934 Coal Face 1935 . [2] Grierson was able to make a large contribution to the committee which included Robert M. Hutchins, William E. Hocking, Harold D. Lasswell, Archibald McLeish and Charles Merriam. Children at School The Story of the Film Movement Founded by John Grierson encapsulate their sub ject.' The movement did begin, in the 1930's; it did end, in the 1940's; and . [2] Only one copy of the film was made, it was sent to the Swiss Red Cross who deliberately let it fall into German hands. In 1933, the film unit was transferred to the General Post Office. His ancestors were lighthouse keepers and his father was a school teacher. Born into a large family that wasnt afraid to argue politics over dinner, John Grierson was a labor organizer in Glasgow during a time of massive poverty and social unrest. John Grierson Founder of the British documentary film movement Its leader for 40 years . (co-pr); (London), Spring 1934. Between 1946 and 1948 he was director of mass communications for UNESCO and from 1948 to 1950 film controller for Britains Central Office of Information. church basements. , for example, presaging the much later cinma vrit (Evanston), Spring 1977. [4] John was enrolled in the High School at Stirling in September 1908, and he played football and rugby for the school. [2], The first programme of This Wonderful World was aired on 11 October 1957 in Scotland; it was on The Culbin Sands which focused on how the Forestry Commission had replanted six thousand acres of woodland along the mouth of Findhorn. MacGann, R.D., "Subsidy for the Screen: Grierson and Group Sussex, Elizabeth, "John Grierson," in Portable gear for actuality shooting on the run was another 20 years away. Taylor pointed out that they did make full use of the large studio facilities Crown had Ellis, Jack C., "John Grierson's First Years at the National Evans, Gary, [2], In 1923, Grierson received a Rockefeller Research Fellowship to study in the United States at the University of Chicago, and later at Columbia and the University of WisconsinMadison. Grierson himself was to later say, "Docu mentary is a clumsy description, but let it stand."1 Other film theorists such as Richard Barsam have He then solicited financial support from business and industry and enlisted the participation of artists interested in realistic filmmaking. From 1936, the movement began to disperse and divisions emerged. Swann, P., "John Grierson and the G.P.O. 0 Answers/Comments. Sussex, in Drifters (1929) is silent documentary film by John Grierson, his first and only personal film.. [2] He had recovered enough to attend the Cannes Film Festival in April 1954, taking the production of Man of Africa. From a talented collective of socially conscious filmmakers, artists, composers and writers Grierson built and nurtured the British documentary movement from deep within the bureaucracy of government film units. John Grierson (1898-1972) is probably Scotland's most important filmmaker. Film (pr); Grierson made it his lifes ambition to put film to a social purpose. 3 Taking Grierson's intellectual formation and his 'shrewdly tactical' manoeuvring into account, Corner summarizes the key arguments of 'First May 1939 and appointed Grierson its first commissioner in October 1939. Thanks for contributing to The Canadian Encyclopedia. Ellis, Jack C., "Grierson at University," in His ancestors were lighthouse keepers and his father was a school teacher. In his essay "First Principles of Documentary" (1932), Grierson argued that the principles of documentary were that cinema's potential for observing life could be exploited in a new art form; that the "original" actor and "original" scene are better guides than their fiction counterparts to interpreting the modern world; and that materials "thus taken from the raw" can be more real than the acted article. Granton Trawler Cinema Canada "The Front Page," in Uncharted Waters His first work was on the North Sea . A brilliant academic Grierson won a fellowship to the University of Chicago and was one of the first intellectuals to take motion pictures seriously. Grierson's boss at the EMB moved to the General Post Office (GPO) as its first public relations officer, with the stipulation that he could bring the EMB film unit with him. In all of this, there was more than a little elitism, a stance reflected in Grierson's many dicta of the time: "The elect have their duty." This answer has been confirmed as correct and helpful. Films Division of Central Office of Information, London, 194850; Grierson eventually grew restless with having to work within the bureaucratic and budgetary confines of government sponsorship. The narrator in the 1973 bio-pic, Grierson (National Film Board of Canada) solemnly reads: His ancestors were lighthouse keepers. Question. The bill to create a National Film Board was drafted by Grierson; the bill was introduced in March 1939 and given Royal Assent on 2 May 1939. [2] Before he finished with the Wartime Information Bureau Grierson was also offered the role of chairman of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation but turned it down as he believed that this would give him too much power. In his first film, Drifters (1929), the silent depiction of the harsh life of herring fishermen in the North Sea (Wright) (co-pr); (Montreal), September/October 1978. October 7, 2022. Grierson's idea was to mobilize the cinema in the service of communication, in the service of building bridges between masses of people and their government, between the masses of people and democratic institutions. Films It premiered in a private film club in London in November 1929 on a double-bill with Eisenstein's -then controversial- film The Battleship Potemkin (which was banned from general release in Britain until 1954) and received high praise from both its sponsors and the press. (exec pr); 3. Died: Politics of Wartime Propaganda read them. , London and New York, 1990. (pr); (pr); Sight and Sound formal and technical experiments. ones. ("In the profounder kind of way", wrote Grierson of Flaherty, "we live and prosper each of us by denouncing the other"). Film Unit was ideological as well as technical and aesthetic. Sight and Sound [2] The head of the Motion Picture Bureau for Canada, Frank Bagdley, did not appreciate Grierson's assessment and criticism of the films made by the Bureau which was that they focused too much on Canada as a place to holiday. https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Grierson, Turner Classic Movies - Biography of John Grierson, University of Glasgow - Biography of John Grierson, Undiscovered Scotland - Biography of John Grierson, The Canadian Encyclopedia - Biography of John Grierson, John Grierson - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). "The Symphonic Film I," in He was soon almost forgotten in Canada. method. The Oracle South Africa, all of which established national film boards. among the early recruits; Stuart Legg and Harry Watt came later, as did In 1938, the federal government commissioned Scottish filmmaker John Grierson to study the state of film production in Canada. Line Cruising South A brilliant academic Grierson won a fellowship to the University of Chicago and was one of the first intellectuals to take motion pictures seriously. Interesting technical sidebar: Night Mail was the first film to show actuality images with accompanying sounds. The National Film Board had become one of the largest film studios and was respected around the world for what it had achieved; it had especially had influence in Czechoslovakia and China. A large part of its innovation lies in the fierce boldness in bringing the camera to rugged locations such as a small boat in the middle of a gale while leaving relatively less of the action staged. John grierson made large epic films: FALSE. The first practical application of Grierson's ideas at the EMB was In his review of Robert Flaherty's film Moana (1926) in the New York Sun (8 February 1926), Grierson wrote that it had 'documentary' value. [2], In January 1969, Grierson left for Canada to lecture at McGill University; enrollment for his classes grew to around seven hundred students. basis of the documentary film, its form and function, its aesthetic and Interweaving archival footage, interviews with people who knew him and footage of Grierson himself, this film is a sensitive and informative portrait of a dynamic man of vision. User: She worked really hard on the project. Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and TV "The Prospect for Cultural Cinema," in (pr); [8] When Canada entered World War II in 1939, the NFB focused on the production of propaganda films, many of which Grierson directed. John Grierson founded and led the British documentary film movement of the thirties. It was in this way that the British documentary movement was given shape John Grierson, a Scottish educator who had studied mass communication in the United States, adapted the term in the mid . . Ordinary life could now be heard as well as seen. (pr, co-ed), The Country Comes to Town impressive monument to Grierson's concepts and actions relating to , 4th Edition, London, 1964. 193339," in Cinema Journal "John Grierson," in [2] He left in 1950 due to financial restrictions on the documentaries that he wished to make. [2] The New University Labour Club was initiated by John as well as the Critic's Club; he also had poetry published in the Glasgow University magazine from November 1920 until February 1923. [2] Granton Trawler was a favourite film of Grierson's, he saw it as a homage to the Isabella Greig that was sunk in 1941 by German bombs when it went out to fish and was never seen again. Journal of Film Studies Current issues are available through the Scholarly Publishing Collective. This answer has been confirmed as correct and helpful. University). Cinema Canada GPO to form Film Centre with Arthur Elton, Stuart Legg, and J.P.R. Ellis, Jack C., "The Final Years of British Documentary as the Phase one included some of the most innovative, Ellis, Jack C., Sight and Sound How to make a documentary: everything you need to know, Heres how to conduct research for a documentary. (Montreal), June/July 1979. Forsyth, S., "The Failures of Nationalism and Democracy: Grierson (Cavalcanti) (pr, ph); The 25-minute short experiments with sound design, and dynamic editing to produce an energetic audio-visual style that matches the energy of the dedicated postal workers aboard the Nightmail train. [5] His research focus was the psychology of propagandathe impact of the press, film, and other mass media on forming public opinion. [2] The results for the bursary examination were not posted until October 1915; Grierson applied to work at the munitions at Alexandria; the munitions building had been the original home of the Argyll Motor Company which had earlier in the twentieth century built the first complete motor car in Scotland. [2], In July 1915, Grierson left school with an overall subject mark of 82%; John had sat the bursary examination at Gilmorehill the month before, as his parents wanted him to follow his elder sisters, Janet and Agnes, in going to the University of Glasgow. Documentary Film In 1933 the EMB Film Unit was disbanded, a casualty of Depression-era economics. Later he was an executive producer in Britain for television and motion pictures and acted as an adviser to makers of informational films. The film was shown from 9 December 1929, in the Stoll in Kingsway and then was later screened throughout Britain.[2]. 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