John Grierson at the National Film Theatre
Hazel Wilkinson
1959 - Grande-Bretagne - Noir & Blanc - 14'
Editing : Hazel Wilkinson
Production : BFI Compilation Unit
Distribution : BFI (fleur.buckley@bfi.org.uk, +44 (020) 7957 4709)
Hazel Wilkinson
1959 - Grande-Bretagne - Noir & Blanc - 14'
A record of an address by John Grierson at the National Film Theatre in August 1959 to mark their “Thirty Years of British Documentary” season. Grierson discusses some of the difficulties which beset the founders of the British Documentary Movement in the 1930s including the different agendas within the movement — political and aesthetic — which informed their work : some of the filmmakers who inspired their work, international reaction to their films and his hopes for the future of the British documentary film.
Editing : Hazel Wilkinson
Production : BFI Compilation Unit
Distribution : BFI (fleur.buckley@bfi.org.uk, +44 (020) 7957 4709)