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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Listen to Britain: And Other Films by Humphrey Jennings
  name:
    name part: Jennings, Humphrey
    role:
      role term: filmmaker.
  name:
    name part: McAllister, Stewart
    role:
      role term: filmmaker.
  name:
    name part: Watt, Harry
    role:
      role term: filmmaker.
  name:
    name part: Kanopy (Firm)
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 183 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
  abstract: 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. It may seem paradoxical that an artist of such positively romantic parts should have labored almost exclusively in the documentary realm, with all that it implies of subordination to subject and sponsor. But Jennings' particular talents emerged at a time of very particular need, and that seeming subordination to a cause is in fact the key to the continuing resonance of his work. In the incongruous coupling of the Cambridge aesthete and the British propaganda machine, both parties turned out to be anxious to compromise for the sake of the union. In these pictures, Jennings' impressive aesthetic arsenal helped to expand the scope and the vocabulary of documentary. In turn, the documentary idea, especially in time of war, served to focus and direct his aesthetic impulses to public ends. The result was a short, shining, perfect marriage. Includes: London Can Take It! (1940 - 9 Minutes) Directed by Harry Watt and Humphrey Jennings Words For Battle (1941 - 8 Minutes) Compiled and Directed by Humphrey Jennings Spoken by Laurence Olivier Listen To Britain (1942 - 18 Minutes) Written, Edited, and Directed by Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister Fires Were Started (1943 - 70 M…
  note: In Process Record.
  note: Title from title frames.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Originally produced by Flicker Alley in 1940.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  note: In: English
  subject:
    topic: Early Film
  subject:
    topic: European/Baltic Studies
  subject:
    topic: Film Studies
  subject:
    topic: History - Military
  identifier: 1161428 Kanopy
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: VDU
    record creation date: 160324
    record change date: 20260324182921.0
    record identifier: in00003776364
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng