Films that work
industrial film and the productivity of media
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The history of industrial films. At its height, at the 20th-century, the industrial film industry employed thousands, produced several trade journals and festival circuits, engaged with giants of twentieth-century industry like Shell and AT & T, and featured the talents of iconic actors and directors such as Buster Keaton, John Grierson and Alain Resnais. Exploring the potential of the industrial film to uncover renewed and unexplored areas of media studies, and new possibilities in considering the history of this unexplored corporate medium.