1930's Britain: Volume 1 - D THIR 2
 (1939)
Documentary, History
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74 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1
Director
John Grierson
Writer John Grierson

Features Granton Trawler (John Grierson, 1934) about a trawler out fishing on Viking bank. "The one credit I was absolutely insistent on was putting my name on as cameraman...It was a solo effort"; Coal Face (Cavalcanti, 1935), a prestigious experiment in sound using coal-mining shots; A Job In A Million (Evelyn Spice, 1937), a documentary about a Cockney lad training to be a messenger boy and a perfect example of the breakthrough effected by the GPO Film Unit at a time when working-class people were usually presented as merely comic characters; Spare Time, (Jennings, 1939), showing how workers in the steel, cotton and coal industries spend their spare time. Jennings differed from earlier British documentarists in stressing worker's individuality instead of presenting them as symbols of the dignity of labour. Also includes The City, (Ralph Elton, 1939), an analysis of the growth and development of London.
Edition Details
Edition Normal
Release Date 2006
Packaging Keep Case
Layers Single Side, Single Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 1
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