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Humphrey Jennings

5 films · 1939 to 1945
Born 19 August 1907, United Kingdom · Died 24 September 1950

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 in 1954 as "the only real poet that British cinema has yet produced."

Biography adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Humphrey Jennings

Photo: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

Films

Fires Were Started
Fires Were Started
1943
A Diary for Timothy
A Diary for Timothy
1945
London Can Take It!
London Can Take It!
1940
The Silent Village
The Silent Village
1943
The First Days
The First Days
1939

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