Henry Forsyth Hardy, writer, critic and film administrator: born Bathgate, West Lothian 12 February 1910; married Margaret Fisher (one daughter); died Edinburgh 24 May 1994.

THE MOMENT of the birth of the British documentary film movement was in the making of Drifters by John Grierson. Early in 1930 Forsyth Hardy, the youngest reporter on the Scotsman, wrote a particularly well-informed review of it which had Grierson turning up in the newspaper's offices loudly demanding to meet the author. It was to be the beginning of a remarkable collaboration which ensured that Grierson's extraordinary ...

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