Humphrey Jennings
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Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings was an English documentary filmmaker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organisation. Jennings was described by film critic and director Lindsay Anderson i
Jennings in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, suggesting a shot to Chick Fowle of the Crown Film Unit
2014 Royal Mail stamp showing a still from Spare Time
Fires Were Started
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Fires Were Started is a 1943 British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings and produced by the Crown Film Unit. Filmed in documentary style, it shows the lives of firefighters over one day an
Humphrey Jennings
…film-making propaganda arm of the Ministry of Information, and Jennings joined the new organisation. Jennings' only feature-length film, the 70-minute Fires Were Started (1943), also known as I Was A Fireman, details the work of the Auxiliary Fire Service in London. It blurs the lines between fiction and documentary…
Still from the documentary Fires Were Started