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	Humphrey Jennings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Humphrey Jennings, (August 19, 1907 Walberswick, Suffolk - September 24, 1950 Greece), was a British film-maker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organization.
		It was at about this time that Jennings became involved in the start-up stages of Mass Observation, and was to make the film May the Twelfth as a montage of the 1937 coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth for Mass Observation.
		Jennings made only one feature length film, the 70-minute Fires Were Started (1943), also known as I Was A Fireman, a wartime propaganda movie detailing the work of the Auxiliary Fire Service, which blurred the lines between fiction and documentary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Humphrey_Jennings (613 words)

	opencopy.org - Lecture 8: A Cultural History of Pandaemonium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Jennings’ focus was primarily cultural, but he believed that culture, science and technology had been connected in the past and should be connected in the future.
		Jennings was a realist in the sense that he accepted the importance of science and technology in the modern world.
		Jennings is interesting precisely because he saw the enormity of the problems that faced humanity but did not shrink from the challenge of finding a solution.
	opencopy.org /content/view/22/33 (3802 words)

	Humphrey Jennings Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Documentarist Humphrey Jennings films are so much a part of the British wartime cinema scene that they cannot be ignored; besides which, they remain the finest cinematic achievements of the World War II period in Britain.
		Poet and painter, Jennings was a master of placing scenes together in a pattern which would have the maximum emotional impact on his audience.
		Jennings hurtled helplessly to his death from a Greek cliff in 1950 while scouting locations for his next film.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /biog/j/003.html (290 words)

	Humphrey Jennings and Third Cinema.: The Patriot
		Jennings, with his keen eye for the surreal within the framework of the everyday, imbues his films with layers of a British culture that are omnipresent.
		Jennings shows the level to which our cultural side is part of everything we do subconsciously, and part of what is worth fighting for consciously.
		In Darwin, Jennings raises the paradoxes of a building of faith against the nemesis of religion that Darwin became, whilst simultaneously raising the notion that our evolutionary progression is under threat from not only external forces, but from the nature of war itself.
	www.zenbullets.com /britfilm/article.php?art=thirdcinema&page=6 (544 words)

	Spender's Worktown - Humphrey Jennings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Jennings was a founding member of the Mass-Observation with close links to Charles Madge.
		Jennings talents extended to poetry, art, broadcasting and he was also a translator and historian.
		The film maker Richard Attenborough said of Jennings war time documentaries: "if you want to know what Britain was like in the 1940s, what we put up with and what our motivations were, go and see one of his films".
	www.boltonmuseums.org.uk /HTML/spender/history_humphrey_jennings.html (157 words)

	Breitrose on Winston
		Humphrey Jennings was arguably the most talented of the first generation of British documentary filmmakers, and Brian Winston's book, written as part of the British Film Institute's 'BFI Classics' series, is an affectionate appreciation of Jennings's _Fires Were Started_.
		Humphrey Jennings was a man of many parts: a student of the critic William Empson, a surrealist painter, an imagist poet, an essayist, a broadcaster, a critic, and a man deeply interested in the condition of England.
		Jennings, and his partner in making sense of the world with images, editor Stuart McAllister, create a depiction of an idealized wartime Britain in which economic circumstance, social class, accent, and, to a remarkable extent, even gender, are made subsidiary to the task of ensuring the survival of the nation.
	www.film-philosophy.com /vol5-2001/n18breitrose (1601 words)

	Forgotten Films - Curtis Clark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Arguably the greatest filmmaker to emerge within the British documentary film movement, Humphrey Jennings crafted an extraordinary poetic portrait of the daily rhythms of life on the British homefront as it faced the Nazi threat.
		Jennings and his key collaborators, including cinematographer Chick Fowle and editor Stewart McAllister (with whom he generously shared a co-director credit) never missed a moment or a beat that would advance this tightly wound and intensely moving experience.
		It is somewhat ironic that while Humphrey Jennings was making films for the British government, his more widely recognized contemporary, Leni Riefenstahl, was making films for the Nazi Reich which would also define new levels of artistic achievement in documentary filmmaking.
	www.theasc.com /clubhouse/films/fave-cc.htm (372 words)

	Books \| Victory on the home front
		Jennings was also a poet and an innovative literary critic, whose work on the poetry of Thomas Gray was greatly admired by TS Eliot.
		Jennings is too tactful to underline what her fate would surely have been under Hitler.
		But Jennings saw another truth: saw it in the marine commando units with which he went ashore under fire in Gibraltar; saw it in the young women who worked in the factories of Bradford; in his beloved volunteer fireman as buildings collapsed around them.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5055099-110738,00.html (1252 words)

	Pembroke - International Programmes
		A Pembroke polymath who combined poetry, painting, theatre, criticism and scholarship, Jennings is still best known for what he produced in his 'day-job'; some of the most memorable and evocative images and sounds of the British country and people during the Second World War.
		Jennings was trained in the British documentary tradition by its founding father John Grierson, but he was equally an organiser of the first International Surrealist Exhibition in London, and we will assess the extent to which his legacy is one of creative vision, the Blakean tradition of imaginative transformation, rather than 'mere' archive record.
		As a co-founder of the Mass Observation movement, however, Jennings also initiates the kinds of social observation, 'people-watching', oral history and quizzical investigations of lived reality that have become such a dominant mode in the media spectacle of everyday life.
	www.pem.cam.ac.uk /international-programmes/documentary.html (493 words)

	Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
		The Channel 4 programme, Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain, made by Figment Films, told the story of an exceptionally talented film-maker who changed the way we look at ourselves and our past.
		Not everyone would agree with director Lindsay Anderson's assessment that Jennings was 'the only real poet that British cinema has yet produced', however, few dispute his importance in the development of the documentary form.
		Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain included interviews with film-makers Lord Attenborough and Mike Leigh, and with Jennings's daughter, Mary-Lou Legg.
	www.channel4.com /culture/microsites/J/jennings (210 words)

	Humphrey Jennings Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		That most people have not heard of Humphrey Jennings is a tragedy and more reason to acquaint yourselves with a filmmaker of rare intelligence, ambition and sheer imagination.
		Jennings began directing films in 1939 on the brink of war.
		A scholar of the surrealist movement in the 1930’s (Jennings helped organise the famous London International Surrealist Exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries, London in 1936), he quickly moved from painting to filmmaking when he was offered a position at the GPO.
	www.highangle.co.uk /dvd/humphreyjennings.html (280 words)

	Jennings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jennings can refer to several people, places, or things:
		Jennings Firearms was a firearms manufacturer in California
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jennings (90 words)

	Blythburgh Society - The History Notes: Humphrey Jennings - a genius of the British Cinema
		Jennings was born in Walberswick in 1907 in the Gazebo and his father Frank was an accomplished architect.
		On one occasion in the London docks, Jennings had got a good blaze going and was surveying his handiwork when the sirens sounded to announce the nightly arrival of the German planes.
		Further reading: Humphrey Jennings' remarkable collection of contemporary observations of the coming of the machine was published after his death in, Mary-Lou Jennings and Charles Madge (eds), Pandaemonium 1660-1886 (1985 and later in pbk).
	www.blythweb.co.uk /blythburgh/cinema.htm (748 words)

	LADY VOLS CAGE BRUINS, 14-0, BEHIND CAREER-HIGH FOUR RBI FROM ELLISHA HUMPHREY :: Stacey Jennings, Christy Anch and ...
		The duo of freshmen Stacey Jennings (Aurora, Colo.) and Christy Anch (Ashburn, Va.) combined with senior Stephanie Humphrey (Knoxville, Tenn.) to limit the Bruins to just three singles in notching UT's fifth shutout of the year.
		Jennings (9-4) was credited with the decision to pick up her second win of the afternoon and help Tennessee (16-6) claim its sixth straight outing.
		Stephanie Humphrey gave up a hit to sophomore Julie Castelli with one down in the fifth but the Bruin was erased trying for a double on a bullet from freshman right fielder Kim Anders (Erwin, Tenn.) to shortstop Ellisha Humphrey.
	utladyvols.cstv.com /sports/w-softbl/recaps/030503aab.html (803 words)

	HUMPHREY AND JENNINGS COMBINE TO BLANK NO. 14 SOUTH CAROLINA, 1-0 :: Lady Vol Senior Blaine Teasley Drives in Lone Run ...
		Humphrey (11-2) set a Lady Vol record with her 11th consecutive triumph in the circle, while Jennings notched her third save with a pair of scoreless frames.
		Jennings reached on a throwing error with two down in the fourth and alertly took second when the ball eluded the Carolina first baseman.
		Humphrey had Quinones ground out, moving Fittro to second, before the right-hander induced a fly ball from Cornett that was snared by freshman second baseman Mandie Fishback (Banks, Ore.).
	utladyvols.cstv.com /sports/w-softbl/recaps/040203aaa.html (916 words)

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		Jennings walked to push her teammate down to second before an infield single by Quinones loaded the sacks.
		Humphrey (21-11) was on the hook for her second loss of the day after giving up 12 hits and four runs with six K in her 8.1 innings.
		Humphrey helped her own cause in the bottom of the stanza by reaching on a leadoff error.
	www.secsports.com /new/sports/wsoft/news/wsoft_roundup_040202.html (2763 words)

	Introduction to Humphrey Jennings: Introduction
		In this article and the next I will be using the key wartime films of Humphrey Jennings to look at the lack of substantial debate around his work.
		Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950) was a poet, a painter, an intellectual and an anthropologist.
		Jennings was a middle-class, educated man with a double-first from Cambridge.
	www.zenbullets.com /britfilm/article.php?art=jennings (494 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| Humphrey Jennings: Fires Were Started
		Jennings was a poet and a painter too - a man, in fact, of the widest possible culture.
		Jennings' firemen are not treated in the patronising way servicemen were often depicted in post-war films of the stiff-upper-lip variety.
		Jennings had founded the Mass Observation movement which collected information on the British way of life much as Malinowski had documented the behaviour of the South Sea islanders.
	film.guardian.co.uk /Century_Of_Films/Story/0,4135,36070,00.html (726 words)

	Netribution > Features > Essays > Listen To Britain: Humphrey Jennings & John Grierson
		This ‘show and tell’ technique couldn’t be further from Humphrey Jennings’ style in Listen to Britain where voice-over and interview is abandoned in favour of a seamless flow of images, sound and music.
		Jennings sets out to show how throughout Britain music is a unifying factor across boundaries of class, age and position.
		In comparison to the bravura style of Jennings' films, which creatively interprets and re-presents actuality, Housing Problems was criticised at first for lacking enough ‘directorial intervention and guidance and shaping of the material’6.
	www.netribution.co.uk /features/essays/grierson_jennings.html (1623 words)

	Jacket 20 - Rod Mengham - Bourgeois News: Humphrey Jennings and Charles Madge
		It explores first how the experimental methods employed by Madge and Jennings in their poetic writings may be related to the example of French surrealism; then it considers how this relationship may bear on the subsequent development of both Mass-Observation and a certain style of documentary film-making.
		For Jennings, the modern artist occupies the position of the observer, effectively the Mass-Observer, who grasps the relation between any given historical moment and the series of superimposed paintings, drawings, or texts, that comprise the work of art.
		Jennings actually planned to call a volume of his poems of the 1930s that never came out, Popular Narratives, and in any case he habitually ascribed his prose poems of the 1930s to the genre of ‘reports’.
	jacketmagazine.com /20/meng-jen-madg.html (2632 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > Listen To Britain and Other Fims by Humphrey Jennings > Printer Friendly
		Humphrey Jennings made documentaries for the Crown Film Unit during the war years and after.
		Jennings and the documentarians of the time had no problem staging events, as long as their research told them that the incident had actually happened at one time.
		Though Jennings appeared to be a cold, calculating intellectual to his colleagues, the films here portray a very emotional man, with a knack for capturing the moments of British daily life that would make these movies so moving to their intended viewers.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=4119 (685 words)

	Descendants of JOHN JENNINGS
		Robert Jennings the son of Humphrey Jennings was the correspondent and attorney of the Duchess Sarah.
		Mary Jennings Hardester, describes that Joshua Jennings who resided in Connecticut before 1650 was born in 1622 and was the son of John and Ann Smith Jennings of Kilwick Parish, Yorkshire, England, who were the grandparents of my immigrant ancestor William Jennings of Virginia.
		And as the Jennings family were men of peace and plenty, having no desire for political preferment of likiing for the glory gained by civil strife, they remained undisturbed by the great convulsions of the Country which resulted from the conquest of it by William of Normandy.
	www.octhouse.com /jenningsreport.html (11836 words)

	DVD Times - Humphrey Jennings Collector's Edition in July
		Humphrey Jennings is the godfather of the current new wave of documentary filmmakers and has influenced the likes of Richard Attenborough, David Puttnam and Mike Leigh.
		Set at the end of 1944, with victory inevitable and a nation wearied by war Jennings makes a film diary for the newborn Timothy Jenkins capturing the world he is born into.
		Jennings hung out with the firemen as London was bombed, listened to them and put together a script which they acted out to show just what it was like being a fireman in the blitz.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=57119 (963 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - Listen to Britain and Other Films By Humphrey Jennings (1942) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		One of the greatest figures in the celebrated British Documentary film movement, Humphery Jennings is most remembered for the way his films reflected the concerns and conditions of World War II in the United Kingdom.
		Jennings was a wonderful filmmaker who made uniquely beautiful films.
		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.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=19409 (205 words)

	The Voice of the Turtle
		Although Lindsay Anderson's assertion that Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950) was "the only real poet that British cinema has yet produced" is undoubtedly a polemical exaggeration, it's easy to see why he felt the need to go out on a limb to stress his importance.
		Although unquestionably one of the British cinema's great originals, Jennings has undergone long periods of neglect because he worked almost exclusively in the decidedly unglamorous and low-publicity field of the short documentary.
		But Jennings was much more than just a film-maker, and his interests ranged far wider than his film output would suggest.
	www.voiceoftheturtle.org /dictionary/dict_j1.php (308 words)

	Poetry Bookshop Online: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950) has long been recognised as one of Britain's greatest film directors.
		The "Humphrey Jennings Film Reader" tells the story of his brief, varied life in his own words, using many previously unpublished letters, treatments and screen-plays.
		It reprints all of his published critical writings on literature, painting and other subjects (most of them unavailable in book form since the 1930s), the texts of his radio broadcasts for the BBC and a selection of his poems.
	www.poetrybooks.co.uk /book-template.asp?isbn=185754045X (208 words)

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