John Grierson: A Documentary Biography

John Grierson: A Documentary Biography

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Published by Faber, 1979, hardcover, index, 298 pages, illustrated, condition: as new.

This book places Grierson's work with the GPO film unit, the National Film Board of Canada, UNESCO and Scottish Television in the context of a full life which began in 1898 in the home of a country headmaster in Scotland and included service in World War One and education in Glasgow University. The author knew Grierson from 1930 and assesses his contribution to cinema and the art of communication.

John Grierson  (1898 1972) was a Scottish documentary maker, often considered the father of British and Canadian documentary film. In 1926, Grierson coined the term "documentary" in a review of Robert J. Flaherty's Moana.. In 1939, Grierson established the all-time Canadian film institutional production and distribution company The National Film Board of Canada. 

In his review of Robert Flaherty's film Moana (1926), Grierson wrote that it had 'documentary' value. 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.
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