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Industrial Britain

5.4 21 mins Documentary   1931
Empire Marketing Board  
Director(s): Robert Flaherty

Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a hint of ambiguity or doubt--fits that category well. The authoritatarian narrator feels out-of-date and unsophisticated, but the footage is well shot and interesting, and the transparency of the propaganda aspect is almost a reflief at a time when so many films have hidden agendas.

Casts of Industrial Britain

Donald Calthrop

as Self - Commentator (uncredited)

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