| #3205077 in Books | British Film Institute | 1999-10-27 | 2008-01-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.47 x.21 x5.42l,.0 | File Name: 0851707734 | 96 pages |
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Sage introduction to one of Britain's greatest filmmakers.|By darragh o'donoghue|The most important and influential development in 1930s British cinema was the documentary movement, which was given the name by its chief practitioner, John Grierson, head of the General Post Office Film Unit. These documentaries weren't what we understand by the term today - rather than utilisin||"Probably the most cogently argued study of Jennings so far." -- Sight and Sound|From the Back Cover|This work suggests that Humphrey Jennings' re-enacted documentary about the London Blitz, "Fires Were Started" i
This work suggests that Humphrey Jennings' re-enacted documentary about the London Blitz, "Fires Were Started" is an understated propaganda masterpiece whose documentary value, despite the reconstructions required by film technology in the 1940s, remains undimmed. The author provides a full account of exactly how Jennings recaptured the reality of the Blitz for his cumbersome camera through a process of meticulous research and extraordinary sensitivity.
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