The read
It runs a compact 21m.
Synopsis
Developed from John Grierson's opportunistic recruitment of the well-known director and anthropologist Robert Flaherty, Industrial Britain provides a traditional picture of Britain as is interrupted by industrial stacks billowing smoke. A dramatic illustration of how the young British documentary movement grappled with the influence of the genre’s founding father, Flaherty's ethos was essentially that of a 19th-century conservative individualist, attracted to the elemental extremes of nature and suspicious of the mechanisation of the modern world.
Ratings
IMDb6.2/10
8 audience votes
Key crew
- Robert FlahertyDirector
Cast
- Donald CalthropSelf - Commentator (uncredited)
Themes
industrybritain