Title: "Fires were started--" /
Authors: Winston, Brian.
Date: 1999
Publisher: British Film Institute,
Physical description: 79 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language: English
LC class: T
Abstract: In the age of the fly on the wall docusoap, how does Humphrey Jennings' re-enacted documentary about the London Blitz hold up? Brian Winston suggests that it is an understated propaganda masterpiece whose documentary value remains undimmed.
Contents: 1. A Fresh and Loving Eye -- 2. An Intellectual Artist -- 3. The Simplest of Pictures -- 4. The Idea of Connection -- 5. Films of Britain at War -- 6. This Is What We Were Like -- The Best Of Us -- 7. The Past with the Present -- 8. Jennings Films Are All Documentaries -- 9. The Murky and Undecided Realities of Today -- App. Only Connect: Some Aspects of the Work of Humphrey Jennings / Lindsay Anderson.