is an organized documentary film-making movement headed by john grierson in Britain, which began in 193s. Grilson opposes movies with fictional stories and artificial scenery, and thinks it is a misuse of movies, the most influential art media.
The British documentary film movement was deeply influenced by Soviet films in creative thinking, especially Wiltoff's theory of "movie eyes", and they also widely absorbed Walter Rutman's "symphony" montage technique, various tendencies of the French avant-garde and the experiences of joris ivens and Flahadi in the Netherlands. On the one hand, they attach great importance to the social significance of the film and advocate that the documentary should be a creative treatment of real life scenes and a direct means of publicity;
On the other hand, great attention is paid to artistic processing when recreating real life scenes. The major works of documentary film movement in Britain are: Gleason's Fishing Boat with a Drift Net (1929), Rhett's Song of Ceylon (1934), Night Mail by Rhett and Walter (1936), and Cavalcanti's Coal Miner (1936).
john grierson:
is the leader of documentary film movement in Britain, and the nominator of documentary in English. He first put forward this statement when commenting on the second film "Moana" by Flahardy. Grierson was deeply influenced by Soviet movies in his creative thinking, especially Wiltoff's theory of "movie eyes". At the same time, he also widely absorbed Walter Rutman's "symphony" montage technique, various tendencies of the French avant-garde and the experience of joris ivens and Flaherty in the Netherlands.
He attaches great importance to the social significance of films, and advocates that documentaries should be a creative treatment of real life scenes and a direct means of publicity. In addition, great attention is paid to artistic processing when reproducing real life scenes.
His representative work is the famous film Drift-net Fishing Boat, which was filmed in 1929. This film describes the fishing life of fishermen in Beihai, and the greatest significance of this film lies in the practice of his film theory. In terms of artistic skills, Grierson used the principle of symphonic film structure and powerful editing techniques developed by Eisenstein and Pudov King, which was poetic and picturesque.
is the first and only documentary filmed by Gleason, the leader of the British documentary school in 1929. The theme of the film is to reflect the working life of fishermen catching herring in Beihai, highlighting the "rhythm and significance of human labor".
Grierson was obviously influenced by Flahardi in this film, but he accepted the theory of the Soviet Montage School in photography and editing, as well as the theme of the film, which was directly related to the works of Wertov and Ruthman. The film is shot in real scene, which creatively deals with real life scenes. As a means of propaganda, it has great social significance.
The film adopts a symphony montage technique, which produces an exotic beauty and is poetic. Because of the success of the fishing boat, a group of young people who are keen on movies have been United around Gleason, forming the famous British documentary film movement.
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