John Grierson Movies

Documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde. In 1960, Glasgow and other towns and ports on the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, were still...

A BFI-produced documentary about documentary filmmaker John Grierson speaking about documentary.

Short documentary showing the workings of a large London sorting office.

Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".

Life on a farm at springtime, including blossom, piglets and ducklings.

Marionette parody of Charlie Chaplin.

In this parody of Sherlock Holmes, the Great Detective goes to an opium den of inequity in the dangerous London district of London and challenges...

Short documentary about British education in the late 1930s.

Humphrey Jennings' first film as a director, a brief overview of the British postal service.

Trade Tattoo went even further than Rainbow Dance in its manipulation of the Gasparcolor process. The original black and white footage consisted of...

The building and launch of a new long-wave radio transmitter - just as the TV age is about to be born.

A film made by the British General Post Office (GPO) in 1933, promoting the automation of telephone exchanges.

Legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock pays tribute to the "father of the documentary", John Grierson, exploring what made his work so...

Smog was the deadly downside of Britain's industrial might, as this powerful and revealing documentary spells out. In 1937, coal was Britain's...

Story of salmon fishers and the methods they use; captures the migration of salmon up a Highland river for spawning.

Marionette parody of Tom Mix.

Norman McLaren was a cinematic genius who made films without cameras, and music without instruments. He produced sixty films in a stunning range of...

A record of an educational experiment in the small town of Chesterfield in Derbyshire.

The history and modern day industry of Stirlingshire, Scotland.

A look at how Scotland's water is being used to bring power to the Highlands.