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Fires Were Started –
Brian Winston
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Fotografie, Film, Video, TV
Beschreibung
Humphrey Jennings (1907-50) was perhaps the most gifted film-maker of the British documentary movement. Involved in the Mass Observation project of the 1930s, Jennings'' talent lay in picturing ordinary life in ways that were inventive yet authentic. "
Fires Were Started –" (1943) is his major achievement. A film about a day''s work for a unit of mainly auxiliary volunteer firemen at the height of the blitz, it blends observation with reconstruction to achieve a particularly poignant kind of propaganda.
Lindsay Anderson expressed the opinion of many commentators and viewers when he wrote in
Sight and Sound (in a 1954 article reprinted as an appendix to this volume) that Jennings was ''the only real poet the British cinema has yet produced''. But how could a documentarist also be a ''poet''?
This is one of the questions addressed by Brian Winston in his study of "
Fires Were Started –", a question which is particularly relevant today in the wake of the massive public controversies surrounding ''faked'' documentaries. For Winston documentary film-making is always ''creatively treated actuality'' and must be taken as such if it''s to be properly valued and understood.
