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Jul 2, 2021 · Jill Craigie: the woman who did. The British filmmaker’s long marriage to Michael Foot has overshadowed her courageous, pioneering career in documentary film. 2 July 2021.
Jill Craigie (1911 – 1999) was one of Britain’s earliest women documentary makers. Her career as a pioneering film-maker has been largely eclipsed in public memory by her position as a public advocate for feminism and as the wife of former Labour party leader, Michael Foot.
Jill Craigie (1911 – 99) was one of the first women to direct documentaries in the UK. Working outside the British Documentary Movement in the 1940s and early 50s, her films such as To Be Woman (1951), on equal pay, and Out of Chaos (1944), the first film about artists at work, featuring Henry Moore and Paul Nash, tackled new subjects for the ...
Jul 14, 2021 · Jill Craigie: Filmmaker, Writer, Feminist. On the anniversary of Emmeline Pankhurst's birthday, Dr Hollie Price explores the works of Jill Craigie - filmmaker, writer and feminist.
Sep 18, 2018 · Professor Jo Fox, director of the Institute of Historical Research at the School of Advanced Study, explores ‘To Be a Woman’, Jill Craigie’s 1951 documentary examining the role of women in the workplace. Equal pay has long been at the heart of feminist activism.
Jun 2, 2022 · Using the BBC Written Archives Centre’s records, this working paper explores a documentary about the suffragettes written by feminist, socialist filmmaker Jill Craigie for the BBC in 1949 – illuminating her previously unconsidered efforts to bring the women’s movement to life in an innovative, modern way on the small screen.
Mar 22, 2022 · On the BBC’s West of England Home Service in 1947, filmmaker and guest film reviewer Jill Craigie declared that one of her conceptions of a good film was that it should be ‘indigenous in character’. 1 Her recent film The Way We Live had focused on the plan for rebuilding Plymouth; it was highly praised by newspaper critics, and when shown ...
