technique is there and the men and women to
do the job. Documentary can take its place in
the war effort, but, as Grierson said in a recent
broadcast to Canada, it will be a poor inform
ation service which keeps harping on war to the
exclusion of everything so that our minds become
narrow and anasmic." To make the everyday life
and achievements of democracy exciting has
always been documentary's job, and to-day that
job is more important than ever before.
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1936 ELEPHANT BOY
Robert Flaherty London Films)
1938 NORTH SEA
Harry Watt G.P.OFilm Unit
1939 THE LONDONERS
John Taylor Realist Film Unit
1936 CONQUEST OF the AIR unfinished
Alexander Korda London Films)
1939 THE FIRST DAYS
Cavalcanti (G.P.O. Film Unit)
1939 MEN OF AFRICA
Alexander Shaw Colonial Empire Marketing Board)
