Ruby Grierson was born in 1904 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK. Ruby Grierson was the sister of John Grierson, founder of the 1930s British Documentary Movement. Born in Scotland in 1904, she trained as a teacher but became involve... (Full Biography Below)
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Ruby Grierson was born in 1904 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK. Ruby Grierson was the sister of John Grierson, founder of the 1930s British Documentary Movement. Born in Scotland in 1904, she trained as a teacher but became involved with the documentarists when she worked as an uncredited assistant on the seminal social documentary Housing Problems (1935). Her ability to put the working-class women interviewees at ease has since been credited by her fellow crew members for making the film the remarkable social document it is. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Grierson, like many of her contemporaries, began making films for the war effort. Her first four productions were 'home front' propaganda films made for the Ministry of Food, which showed audiences how to get the most out of home grown foods and government rations. Using comedy to great effect, Grierson made what could have been very dull subjects entertaining. They Also Serve (1940), another home front propaganda film, showed the importance to the war effort of the everyday work of the British housewife. Tragically, this was to be Grierson's final work. While making a film about the evacuation of children to Canada in 1940, the liner she was travelling on was torpedoed and Grierson was killed. Her humanity for her subjects and enthusiasm for the pure documentary style was a great loss to the documentary movement.
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