John Grierson Movies

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

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

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...

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

Filmed in Uganda, Man of Africa was assembled by legendary documentary producer John Grierson. The film depicts the mass migration of the Bakija and...

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

The history of Scotland and the factors that have shaped the character of its people.

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...

Marionette parody of Cherry Kearton.

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...

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

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

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

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

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

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

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

A short GPO documentary showing how undersea telephone cables are repaired.