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We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

John Grierson

We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form

John Grierson

In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.

John Grierson

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.

John Grierson

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

John Grierson

John Grierson

John Grierson

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Born: April 26, 1898

Died: February 19, 1972 (aged 73)

Bio: John Grierson was a pioneering Scottish documentary maker, often considered the father of British and Canadian documentary film. In 1926, Grierson coined the term "documentary" in a review of Robert Flaherty's Moana.

Known for:

Drifters (1929)
Night Mail (1936)
The Song of Ceylon (1934)
Coal Face (1935)
Granton Trawler (1934)

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