Multimedia Collection
Listen to Britain and Other Films by Humphrey Jennings
DVD
182 min
1941-43, 1951
PN1995.9 .D6 G73 2002 DVD
Humphrey Jennings was one of the greatest figures in the celebrated British documentary film movement, and he is most remembered for the way his work reflects the concerns and conditions of World War II-time in the United Kingdom. He is undoubtedly of great historical importance, but the ultimate justification for the present gathering of work is that Jennings was a wonderful filmmaker who made uniquely beautiful films. Contained within this one man was a seemingly impossible array of artistic abilities. He had a poet's command of film language, a painter's eye for evocative imagery and composition, a musician's ear for rhythm and tone and counterpoint, a Soviet's sense of juxtaposition, a journalist's nose for the concrete and the factual, and a compassionate man's love for the people he portrayed.
- 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.)
Distributed by Image Entertainment (www.image-entertainment.com).
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