1. Elizabeth Sussex, The Rise and Fall of British Documentary (Berkeley, 1975). Chapter 7 is entitled ‘The Post-War Decline’ — a verdict endorsed by most of the interviewees.
2. See also Jack C. Ellis, ‘The Final Years of British Documentary as the Grierson Movement’, Journal of Film and Video, 36: 4 (1984), pp.43–4.
3. Martin Stollery and John Corner, ‘The Postwar British Documentary Movement — Decline or Transition?’, Journal of British Cinema and Television, 10: 3 (2012), pp.387–94.
4. Michael Balcon, ‘The British Film During the War’, The Penguin Film Review, 1 (1946), p.69.
5. John Ellis, ‘The Quality Film Adventure: British Critics and the Cinema 1942–1948’, in Andrew Higson (ed.), Dissolving Views: Key Writings on British Cinema (London, 1996), pp.66–93.