Tribute to Notable Film Producer

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 2, 3 January 1941, Page 5

Tribute to Notable Film Producer

The “Alanchester Guardian” pays tribute to Ruby Grierson, a notable film producer, w r ho was among those who did not survive the sinking of the City of Benares. She was accompanying the British children to Canada and sailed with camera, film, and complete protographic gear in order to record the trip. A few years ago Miss Grierson joined in London the gifted group of film producers, comprising her brother John Grierson, Rotha, Elton, Basil Wright, John Taylor, and others, who created the great British documentary film. She was passionately eager about film work, and had a sensitive approach to ordinary people which made tho films ou which she worked the fine human documents that they are. She understood poor people and their trebles, She worked with Elton on “Housing Problems,” on “To-day We Live”—a documentary on the South Wales depressed areas—and produced uuder her own name “ Cargo for Androssan.” Her last films were made for the Alinistry of Food. In these, with her human approach, she never lost sight of the housewife and her children for whose benefit the films had been made.