Drifters
John Grierson
1929 - Grande-Bretagne - Noir & Blanc - 41'
Photography : Basil Emmott
Editing : John Grierson
Production : New Era Films, Empire Marketing Board Film Unit
Distribution : BFI (fleur.buckley@bfi.org.uk, +44 (020) 7957 4709)
John Grierson
1929 - Grande-Bretagne - Noir & Blanc - 41'
Widely accepted as the model for the propagandist use of cinema, Drifters started a trend in the British Documentary Movement: the heroic dignity of labour. Filmed in Lowestoft, the Shetlands and the North Sea, it is about the drift net fishers of the herring fleet.
Photography : Basil Emmott
Editing : John Grierson
Production : New Era Films, Empire Marketing Board Film Unit
Distribution : BFI (fleur.buckley@bfi.org.uk, +44 (020) 7957 4709)