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...cinema critic who can also lay claim to being a first-class moviemaker is a blue-eyed, Milquetoast-mustached Scot named John Grierson. At 48, John Grierson might well call himself the father of the documentary. A minor proof of paternity: he was the first to call the fact film a "documentary." As a documentary-maker for the British Government (1927-39), he trained most of that country's current crop of experts. During the war, he bossed Canada's wartime National Film Board and turned out the excellent series of shorts called World in Action and Canada...
...commission has invited four eminent men to serve as foreign advisers: Hu Shih, former Chinese Ambassador to the U.S.; John Grierson, government film commissioner, Canada; Jacques Maritain, president, the Free French School for Advanced Studies; Kurt Riszler, professor of philosophy, The New School...
Inside Fighting China (World in Action-United Artists) is an inspiring vision of the birth and march of a new nation. From the filmed happenings of the last eleven years in Asia, able John Grierson, head of Canada's National Film Board, has composed a documentary picture-poem showing how "old coolie-China died and out of the torment of war a great young nation arose...
Just over the border the Canadian National Film Board, with no Hollywood to call on, is shooting more than 100 pictures a year. Its full-time executive head, voluble John Grierson, who prepared England's slick Government film setup, was busy visualizing the war for Canadian citizens with a series of brilliant documentary pictures that fitted a carefully preconceived pattern...
When World War II began, John Grierson was in Ottawa making documentaries for Canada. In England his trained colleagues were turning out some 50 documentaries yearly. When the Government awoke from the cold shower of Dunkirk, it set these Grierson-trained technicians to making war documentaries. Soon the Ministry of Information was supplying every British cinemansion with at least one picture a week...