Industrial Britain

• Movies
• 1931-12-31
• EN
• Released
• 0h 21m
• GB
• Documentary

• 5.4
• 7

Production

Empire Marketing Board

Storyline

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 The authoritatarian narrator feels out-of-date and unsophisticated, but the footage is well shot and interesting, and the transparency of the propaganda aspect is almost a reflief at a time when so many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.