Humphrey Jennings Film Reader

by Jennings, Humphrey; Jackson, Kevin

• ISBN13: 9781857547481
• ISBN10: 1857547489
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

This anthology of the letters, articles, scripts, and radio talks composed by famous British filmmaker Humphrey Jennings offers readers a window into the life and times of this most idiosyncratic of creative talents who gained national renown by documenting the everyday heroism of ordinary British citizens during and after World War II.

Author Biography

Humphrey Jennings was a British filmmaker who gained national renown by documenting the everyday heroism of ordinary British citizens during and after world war II. His most famous films are Britain Can Take It, A Diary for Timothy, and Listen to Britain. Kevin Jackson is the author of Invisible Forms, The Language of Cinema, and Letters of Introduction.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Film-making : treatments, scripts and letters 1934-1950
Words for battle	p. 17
National gallery	p. 24
Listen to Britain	p. 33
Fires were started	p. 38
Filming The silent village	p. 61
Lili Marlene	p. 85
A diary for Timothy	p. 96
Filming A defeated people	p. 100
Dim little island	p. 112
Working sketches of an orchestra	p. 118
Family portrait	p. 162
Critical writings
Design and the theatre	p. 181
Odd thoughts at the Fitzwilliam	p. 184
Notes on Marvell 'to his coy mistress'	p. 186
Rock-painting and La Jeune Peinture	p. 191
A reconsideration of Herrick	p. 195
The theatre to-day	p. 202
'Colour won't stand dignity'	p. 218
'Surrealism'	p. 219
'Do not lean out of the window!'	p. 221
In Magritte's paintings ...	p. 225
The iron horse	p. 226
A determination not to dream	p. 229
Who does that remind you of?	p. 230
The anatomy of the horse	p. 231
Colorado Claro : thoughts on the 'cleaned pictures'	p. 232
The English	p. 236
Paule Vezelay	p. 243
Selected broadcasts
Plagiarism in poetry	p. 247
The disappearance of ghosts	p. 251
The modern poet and the public	p. 255
The poet and the public in the past	p. 261
Understanding modern poetry	p. 266
The poet laureateship	p. 271
Poetry and national life	p. 276
Science review no. 10 : James Nasmyth	p. 283
'Pourquoij'aime la France'	p. 285
Selected poems
Reports (1934-1936)	p. 289
Three reports (1935-1936)	p. 290
Report on the Industrial Revolution (1937)	p. 292
The boyhood of Byron (1936-1938)	p. 292
Prose poem ('as the sun') (1937)	p. 293
Two American poems (1938)	p. 294
The procession	p. 294
'Were you disappointed in the first view of Niagara?'	p. 295
Autumn 1939	p. 295
Summer 1940	p. 295
A picture in the Victoria and Albert Museum (1940)	p. 296
I see London (1941)	p. 296
War and childhood (1943)	p. 298
As the sirens 1944 (1944-1947)	p. 298
Wales in snow (1948)	p. 299
The plough (1948)	p. 299
As I look (1949)	p. 300
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