Film Quarterly (1972) - Grierson on Documentary: The Last Interview

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• article: Grierson on Documentary: The Last Interview
• author(s): Elizabeth Sussex & John Grierson
• journal: Film Quarterly (01/Oct/1972)
• issue: volume 26, issue 1, pages 24-30
• DOI: 10.1525/fq.1972.26.1.04a00050
• journal ISSN: 0015-1386
• publisher: University of California Press
• keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Cahiers du Cinéma, Cannes, France, Documentary films, Elizabeth Sussex, John Grierson, Mass media, Paramount Pictures, Poetry, Teaching

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Abstract

John Grierson, son of a Scottish minister, was the prophet of an idea which was breath-taking in a day when no one used film for anything except entertainment : he proposed that it should be poetry and that it should address itself to the actual social problems and possibilities of modern industrial society. [...] in a social revolution like the social revolution of India, you've got teachers all over the place, teaching sanitation, teaching health, teaching progressive agriculture of one kind or another, teaching community development in various ways.