Basic Knowledge About John Greirson

John Greirson 

On the 26th April 1898 John Greirson was born in Deanston, Scotland and later died on the 19th Februray 1972 in Bath, England. 

And was married to Margaret Greirson from the year 1930 until he's death in 1972. 

John Greirson CBE was a pioneering Scottish documentary maker, often considered the father of British and Canadian documentary films. 

In 1926, Greirson coined the term "documentary" in a review, of Robert Flaherity's, Monana. 

There are some of his films/documentaries are called the following:

• Nights Mail, 1936
• Drifters, 1926
• The Song of Ceylon, 1934
• Coal Face, 1935
• Granton Trawler, 1934 

John Greirson went to university at the University of Glasgow and the University of Chicago, and then he returned to England in 1928. 

As the founder of the British documentary film movement and it's leader for 40 years. Also during the Second World War he supervised the information films for the Canadian Government. 

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