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Listen to Britain and other films / by Humphrey Jennings.

Format Video (DVD)
Publication InfoChatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, ©2002.
Description1 videodisc (182 mins.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + program notes ([8] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorJennings, Humphrey.
Other author/creatorShepard, David.
Other author/creatorDuncan, Dean W.
Other author/creatorHess, Myra, Dame, 1890-1965.
Other author/creatorGreat Britain. Empire Marketing Board.
Other author/creatorImage Entertainment (Firm)
Other author/creatorBlackhawk 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 noteDVD.
General note"Humphrey Jennings," essay in included booklet, by Dean w. Duncan.
General note"PRoduced for DVD by David Shepard."
Other titleLondon can take it.
Other titleWords for battle.
Other titleListen to Britain.
Other titleFires were started.
Other titleDiary for Timothy.
Other titleFamily portrait.
Other titleMyra Hess, playing the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata in F Minor No. 57 (Apassionata)
Publisher numberID1488DSDVD Image Entertainment

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