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Documental social John Grierson – movimiento británico
Toma la narrativa de flaherty y el montaje de vertov
Búsqueda estética y política – denuncia social.
Educativo/informativo
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Drifters

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Todo comenzó con la iniciativa de “El productor”. John Grierson, un escocés emprendedor formado en sociología, había comenzado a estudiar al cine de lo real a través de la obra del pionero: Robert Flaherty. Para un cine sin nombre fue Grierson quien en 1926, en una crónica sobre Moana (el segundo film de Flaherty), estableció la denominación que, con mayor o menor seguridad, mantenemos hasta el día de hoy: cine documental.
El escocés fue quien además realizó el primer film documental británico propiamente dicho. Hizo Drifters en 1929 y ese único film que dirigió le bastó para ser el nombre asociado al Movimiento Documental Británico

In 1929 John Grierson made Drifters. Following its success, Grierson went on to establish the 'British documentary film movement' at the Empire Marketing Board: a government organisation.

Drifters (1929) contained many of the themes that were present in Grierson’s later work. It was a film about the herring fishing industry and in using Flaherty’s ethnographic observation and the soviet (futuristic)/German style of placing the relationship between man and machinery at the core with ordinary men as heroes led to success for Grierson and documentary.

Drifters themes: *  Showed the fishing industry as modern *  Emphasised the professionalism of the fishermen and the social interaction of the men. *  Importance of the fishing industry to the economy and Britain. *  Importance of the wider working class community *  All on location at a time when all GB film was studio

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