Documentary Masterpieces By John Grierson

A compilation of documentary films made in Great Britain. Industrial Britain examines Britain's factories and mines during the early1930's. A Colour Box is an experimental film in which abstract images dance across the screen to lively latin music. Granton Trawler is a documentary about fishermen engaged in dragnet fishing off the coast of Scotland. The Private Lives of the Gannets is a study of the behaviour patterns and lives of a bird colony of gannets situated on Grassholm Island, Wales. Seawards The Great Ships is a documentary in which the filmmaker visits the Clyde River in Scotland to observe the men who build ships as they assemble materials, construct and launch a great variety of vessels. United Kingdom, 1931-1960, B&W, 75 minutes.

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Documentary Masterpieces By John Grierson
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