I agreed with Kyle that Grierson's Industrial Britain had a totally different purpose from Vertov's Man With A Camera. Vertov's film was monumental, an epic work portraying universal life through the medium of the lives of the people of a city in Russia. There was no narration; instead Vertov created a portrait of life with a grandiose collection of shots and juxtaposition of different themes set against others through montage. Grierson's film was much more specific and minuscule. From the very title, Industrial Britain, we get a sense that this film is truly focused on one country, whereas A Man With A Camera involves a more abstract idea of Vertov's film (Industrial Britain honestly sounds like the most terrible, boring documentary ever). The shots in Grierson's film were also very isolated to mechanics of the factory and dark corridors where all of the industry took place. Although there were wide shots within these corridors, the darkness consumed much of the frame making everything claustrophobic.
Personally for me, Grierson's film was bad and boring, but this is the fault of the subject matter of industrial britain rather than the film itself, which utilized many of the montage techniques of the soviet filmmakers.
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