Browsing: 1930s
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Coal Face
(1936)
A poetic look at Britain's coal industry, moving from a graphical overview of the country as a whole to an almost impressionistic portrait of a Welsh mine, focusing on working conditions and the heroi...
Colour Box, A
(1935)
In this film abstract animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This
was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the
film.
Granton Trawler
(1934)
A documentary study of fishermen engaged in dragnet fishing off the coast of Scotland, using a poetic montage of image and sound, heavily influenced by Alberto Cavalcanti. ...
Housing Problems
(1935)
Produced for the British gas board in order to publicise the new
housing developments being built around the country, this film has
become famous for its depiction of the working class as well as fo...
Industrial Britain
(1933)
Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's
voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial
worker, without a hint of ambiguity or doubt--fits that category
wel...
Job in a Million, A
(1937)
A young school-leaver begins a new job at the Post Office, training
to be a messenger boy.
Night Mail
(1936)
A film-poem about the Royal Mail express train from London to
Edinburgh, with music by Benjamin Britten and the now famous
commentary by W. H. Auden; a poem that mirrors the rhythm of the
train, bu...
Song of Ceylon
(1934)
One of the most critically-acclaimed films of the documentary
movement, Song of Ceylon's message is that native traditions and
nature can coexist with modernity, providing a fairly benign take
on p...
Spare Time
(1939)
A filmic survey of leisure pursuits in Northern England and Wales, including a male voice choir and a colliery brass band.
With a subtle commentary by Laurie Lee, the film is similar to J...
Trade Tattoo
(1937)
Len Lye was one of the most consistently experimental of artists.
He recognised that it was possible to intensify and change colours
in early colour film. For Trade Tattoo he took imagery drawn from...
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