John Grierson

...in London, McLaren moved to New York City in 1939, just as World War II was about to begin in Europe. At the invitation of John Grierson, he moved to Canada in 1941 to work for the National Film Board, to open an animation studio and to...

In this article: Norman McLaren, National Film Board of Canada, Willard Maas, Montreal, London, Allegation, Officer of the Order of Canada, and World War II

He was eventually to work on over 350 films while an editor for the NFB. During the Second World War, the head of the NFB, John Grierson, promoted Newman to film producer, working on documentaries . In this role he oversaw acclaimed...

In this article: Sydney Cecil Newman, Donald Wilson, Shaun Sutton, Ted Kotcheff, BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and ITV

...that demonstrate integrity, originality and technical excellence, together with social or cultural significance. Gary Evans, John Grierson & the National Film Board -- The Politics of Wartime Propaganda; University of Toronto Press,...

In this article: Robert Flaherty, Moana, Basil Wright, Sergei Eisenstein, Democracy, New York Sun, Harry Watt, The Battleship Potemkin, and Edgar Anstey

...Coalface, which employed the combined talents of Benjamin Britten and WH Auden, and was produced by the doyen of British documentary, John Grierson, was directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, a Brazilian who came to Britain from France where he had...

In this article: Coal, Billy Elliot, Stephen Tallents, Britain, Lee Hall, Alberto Cavalcanti, and Democracy

...title alerts us - ordinary people playing themselves, going about their lives during the Blitz. Such films seem to be a vindication of John Grierson, the austere Scottish father-figure of the Thirties documentary movement, and his manifesto...

In this article: World War II, Humphrey Jennings, Ministry of Information, Britain, Crown Film Unit, Leni Riefenstahl, A Diary for Timothy, Fires Were Started, and GPO Film Unit

...Issue Best Documentary on Science or the Natural World The Frontier Post Award for Most Entertaining Documentary John Grierson is widely considered to be the godfather of Documentary Film, he has also been attributed to have...

In this article: Grierson Awards, Documentary, Climate change, Global warming, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Documentary film, Harry Watt, W.H. Auden, and Night Mail

...Germany. He had begun his career in the late 1930s as a camera assistant in the documentary unit run by Marian Grierson, sister of John Grierson. He worked in the Central Africa Film Unit for many years, before work at ITV and the BBC. MI5...

In this article: Stephen Peet, London, World War I, World War II, Quaker, Friends Ambulance Unit, and James Cameron

...Festival. The EIFF's original remit was to bring documentary films to a wider audience, its vision championed by directors such as John Grierson and animation pioneer Norman McLaren. Early audiences were introduced to the work of filmmakers...

In this article: Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Odd Man Out, Oscars, Gentleman's Agreement, Roberto Rossellini, and James Mason

The tiny Perthshire village of Deanston is set to honour the man credited with inventing the British documentary. John Grierson, whose films include the iconic Night Mail, was born in the village in 1898. A plaque detailing his life is...

In this article: Night Mail, Deanston, London, W H Auden, Glasgow, and Scotland

...film. In 1936, at the Scottish Amateur Film Festival in Glasgow, his work caught the attention of the awards judge and fellow Scot, John Grierson. A Perthshire schoolmastera s son, also born in Stirling, Grierson was a pioneer of...

In this article: Norman McLaren, Oscar, The Scotsman, Neighbours, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, and Los Angeles Times