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...John Grierson turned up at the University of Chicago in 1924 as a research fellow. Fascinated by the role of the U.S. press in making Americans out of Europeans, he wandered through the country watching how the papers did it. The popular press, especially the Hearst press, he decided, was a great leveler, a great Americanizer...
...John Grierson took this impression of the U.S. press back to England and put it to work. Documentary films, not newspapers, were his medium. By dramatizing the actual workings of a complicated world, these one-to-three-reel shorts would help make Englishmen better citizens by acquainting them with the tasks of England and the Empire...
...first film, Drifters, an account of Britain's fishing industry, was a triumphant success. By 1929 the British Government was sold on documentaries, and the General Post Office and other Government departments established film units. They furnished the money; Grierson the talent...
...GRIERSON Winnipeg, Manitoba...
Last week 69-year-old Griffith Ellis sold his interest in the magazine he had edited so consistently for 40 years, went to Arizona for a vacation. Purchaser was his business manager, Elmer Presley Grierson, whom he had been schooling to succeed him since a few months after Grierson graduated from University of Michigan in 1913. Like his mentor, Publisher Grierson is devoted to boys, likes them redblooded. His son, John, is just...