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Drifters

A study of North Sea herring fishermen.

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  • "Caller Herrin'"
  • "Caller Herrin'"@en

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  • "A study of North Sea herring fishermen."@en
  • "A study of North Sea herring fishermen."
  • "Documentary about the sea and fishermen. Shows the process of herring fishing starting from the gathering of ships to the final, hectic sale at the market place after the long drift in the night."
  • "Realistic portrayal of the working lives of the men of the North Sea herring fleets."@en
  • "Realistic portrayal of the working lives of the men of the North Sea herring fleets."
  • "This story of a commercial trawler off the west coast of Scotland is a crucial film in the development of the British documentary. For centuries, the deep sea fishermen were a mainstay of our island nation, and this is reflected in British filmmakers' fascination with the trade since the medium's earliest days. Probably the best known trawling film, Drifters was made at the very end of the silent era. John Grierson took the already noble trawling film tradition and combined it with the latest techniques of filmmaking to make this remarkable, lyrical film, which heralded in a new era for the actuality film. Made at the pivotal point at which John Grierson, Stephen Tallents and the Empire Marketing Board came together; it propelled a filmmaking culture with such momentum that it gave rise to a unique and much envied aspect of Britain's contribution to film history: what we now call the 'documentary'. Drifters itself is in the long tradition of the trawler film, celebrating the struggle of man and machine against the elements, but also expresses the aesthetic beauty of the seas, the ship's machinery, the glinting silver of the fish in the nets and the shine of rain on oilcloth. The film was delicately tinted and toned to emphasize lighting effects."
  • ""Realistic portrayal of the working lives of the men of the North Sea herring fleets.""
  • ""This silent film brought instant acclaim, both in Britain and abroad, to John Grierson. Never modest, Grierson saw his work as synthesizing the approaches of Robert Flaherty and Sergei Eisenstein; and by constructing a film out of discrete close-ups and decentered compositions, the filmmaker gave Drifters a distinctive, modernist look. Underneath these contemporary stylistics, however, this film about the herring industry looks back to turn-of-the-century British actualities which regularly depicted work processes"--Videodisc sleeve."@en
  • "A key film of the British documentary movement; for the first time in the British cinema workers at their jobs (the men of the herring fleets) were the central subject of a film. The emphasis is on poetic images of motion; the influences are Flaherty and editing techniques suggested by Soviet films."@en
  • "Grierson's film documents the voyage of a herring fishing fleet in the North Sea and follows the herring from the sea to the supper table. It had a great influence on the new art of documentary filmmaking."
  • "John Grierson's early documentary about North Sea herring fishermen tells the complete story of their work from the setting out of the fishing boats to the sale of the fish on the open market."
  • "Documents a herring fishing fleet, and traces the herring from the sea to the supper table."@en

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  • "Film documentaire (Descripteur de forme)"
  • "Features"@en
  • "Documentary films"
  • "British films"@en
  • "non fiction"
  • "Motion pictures"
  • "Short films"
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
  • "Silent films"
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  • "History"
  • "Nonfiction films"
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  • "DVD-Video"
  • "Documentaries and factual films and video"@en

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  • "Drifters"@en
  • "Drifters"

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