Author Archive for: ‘Terence Dobson’

Uploaded 12 November 1999 The adjudicator at the Third Glasgow Amateur Film Festival held in January 1936 was to be the renowned John Grierson. From 1929, when his film Drifters was screened at the British premiere of Battleship Potemkin, Grierson had been a vociferous and vigorous advocate of the new mass-medium of film. He also had risen to head the General Post …

Uploaded 12 November 1999 The adjudicator at the Third Glasgow Amateur Film Festival held in January 1936 was to be the renowned John Grierson. From 1929, when his film Drifters was screened at the British premiere of Battleship Potemkin, Grierson had been a vociferous and vigorous advocate of the new mass-medium of film. He also had risen to head the General Post …