John Grierson Movies

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

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...

The life and work of the documentary pioneer.

A boy pursues his ambition to be a jockey

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

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

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

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

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marionette parody of Cherry Kearton.

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

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

Animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.