Drifters (1929 film)

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Drifters
Directed byJohn Grierson
Produced byJohn Grierson
CinematographyDOP Basil Emmott
Release date
1929
Running time
61 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£3,000

Drifters (1929) is silent documentary film by John Grierson, his first and only personal film.

It tells the story of Britain's North Sea herring fishery. The film's style has been described as being a "response to avant-garde, Modernist films, adopting formal techniques such as montage – constructive editing emphasising the rhythmic juxtaposition of images – but also aimed to make a socially directed commentary on its subject" (Tate Gallery: Liverpool 2006). The film was successful both critically and commercially and helped kick off Grierson's documentary film movement.[1][2][3][4] This film also showed that Grierson was not afraid to alter reality slightly in order to have his vision shown. For example, when the boat he was on returned without a catch he bought another boats catch and tried to fake it. He ended up scrapping that film as it was not authentic enough.[5]

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  1. ^ "John Grierson : 1898 - 1972" (PDF). Griersontrust.org. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  2. ^ "DRIFTERS (John Grierson, 1929) | Dennis Grunes". Grunes.wordpress.com. 11 September 2007. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
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  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 27 March 2012. Retrieved 19 July 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ Evans, Gary. John Grierson: Trailblazer of Documentary Film. Montreal: XYZ Publishing, 2005. Print.

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