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"Fires Were Started" (BFI Film Classics) Book

This work suggests that Humphrey Jennings' re-enacted documentary about the London Blitz Fires Were Started is an understated propaganda masterpiece. It provides an account of how Jennings recaptured the reality of the Blitz for his cumbersome camera through a process of meticulous research.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    Humphrey Jennings (1907-50) was perhaps the most gifted film-maker of the British documentary movement. Involved in the Mass Observation project of the 1930s, Jennings' talent lay in picturing ordinary life in ways that were inventive yet authentic.

  • 0851707734
  • 9780851707730
  • Brian Winston
  • 1 September 1999
  • BFI Publishing
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 96
  • illustrated edition
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