Other author/creator | Jennings, Humphrey. |
Other author/creator | Shepard, David. |
Other author/creator | Duncan, Dean W. |
Other author/creator | Hess, Myra, Dame, 1890-1965. |
Other author/creator | Great Britain. Empire Marketing Board. |
Other author/creator | Image Entertainment (Firm) |
Other author/creator | Blackhawk Films Collection (Library of Congress) |
Contents |
London can take it (1940, 9 mins.) -- Words for battle (1941, 8 mins.) -- Listen to Britain (1942, 18 mins.) -- Fires were started (1943, 70 mins.) -- A diary for Timothy (1943, 39 mins.) -- Family portrait (1951, 26 mins.) -- Myra Hess, playing the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata in F Minor No. 57 (Apassionata) (1945, 9 mins.). |
Abstract |
A collection of six films (and one bonus film) by one of the greatest figures in the celebrated British Documentary Film Movement. He is most remembered for the way his work reflects the concerns and conditions of World War II era in the United Kingdom. In these pictures, Jennings's impressive aesthetic arsenal helped to expand the scope and vocabulary of documentary films. |
General note | DVD. |
General note | "Humphrey Jennings," essay in included booklet, by Dean w. Duncan. |
General note | "PRoduced for DVD by David Shepard." |
Other title | London can take it. |
Other title | Words for battle. |
Other title | Listen to Britain. |
Other title | Fires were started. |
Other title | Diary for Timothy. |
Other title | Family portrait. |
Other title | Myra Hess, playing the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata in F Minor No. 57 (Apassionata) |
Publisher number | ID1488DSDVD Image Entertainment |