John Grierson Movies

Marionette parody of Charlie Chaplin.

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

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

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

A look at the work of Glasgow's Medical Officer of Health.

The story of the North Sea herring fleets from Yarmouth and Lowestoft to Shetland.

This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the...

Marionette parody of Cherry Kearton.

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.

An overview of the shepherd's life during the lambing season.

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...

Drama-documentary, reconstructing a real incident in which a trawler got into difficulties in a North Sea storm. Released 7th March 1938.

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

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...

Developed from John Grierson's opportunistic recruitment of the well-known director and anthropologist Robert Flaherty, Industrial Britain provides a...

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

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

“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...

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

The history and modern day industry of Stirlingshire, Scotland.