Issue 7 – First Release

"Grierson" is a name to conjure with - no need, for any reader with pretensions to knowing anything about film, to even add a first name. The outlines of his…

Uploaded 1 July 1999 Documentary film has always been a contested space: arguments persist about whether it is possible to define "documentary", and whether any attempt at definition should be…

Uploaded 1 July 1999 Introduction For me as a television researcher, to address the question of what kind of influence John Grierson has had in the short history of Danish…

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…

Uploaded 1 July 1999 It was a wonderful time to be alive and involved in what is still often seen as the apogee of British Documentary making. But the past…

Uploaded 1 July 1999 Introduction Within the public relations community the use of, and relationship between, the terms "propaganda" and "public relations" has changed over time. Throughout this article the…

Uploaded 1 July 1999 Open any Japanese book on documentary, and the "theory" of Paul Rotha will be singled out as one of the most influential bodies of thought in…

Unfortunately, this colors his discussion of Rotha as well. Kubota had originally intended to structure his entire book around The Documentary film, a measure of Rotha’s prestige and influence over the…

[1] Uploaded 1 July 1999 I do not propose to separate the foreign problem from the national one. I have been told by some that South Africa's greatest immediate concern…

Uploaded 1 July 1999 | Modified 14 July 1999 In many of the international histories and accounts of documentary film John Grierson is afforded a substantial role. Numerous books on…