biography
pronunciation:
[greerson]
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| lived:
| (1898–1972)
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| biography:
| Producer of documentary films, born in Kilmadock, Stirling, C Scotland, UK. He went to Glasgow University, then studied film art in Chicago, making his name with Drifters (1929), a study of North Sea fishermen. Regarded as the founder of the British documentary movement, he moved to the GPO Film Unit in 1933 for his most creative period, during which he produced Night Mail (1936). In 1938 he was invited to set up the Canadian Film Board, with which he remained until 1945. |
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