Release Date

31 Dec, 1931

Runtime

00:21: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Developed from John Grierson's opportunistic recruitment of the well-known director and anthropologist Robert Flaherty, Industrial Britain provides a traditional picture of Britain as is interrupted by industrial stacks billowing smoke. A dramatic illustration of how the young British documentary movement grappled with the influence of the genre’s founding father, Flaherty's ethos was essentially that of a 19th-century conservative individualist, attracted to the elemental extremes of nature and suspicious of the mechanisation of the modern world.

Original Title

Industrial Britain

Photos

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Actors

Donald Calthrop

Crew

Robert Flaherty

Basil Wright

Arthur Elton

Robert Flaherty

John Grierson

Edgar Anstey

Robert Flaherty