The Changing Face of Europe (1951)
Industrial and social progress in post-war Europe. ...
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Humphrey Jennings is associated with: The Changing Face of Europe
In preparation for the celebration of the 1951 Festival of Britain, this short film was released to assure British citizens of their nation's place in the world and of their own places within that nation. Illustrative scenes of farming, science, political, ...
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Osbert Lancaster, James Fisher, John Ormston and Ralph Vaughn Williams meditate on the history and culture of England. ...
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A documentary by Humphrey Jennings about the modernization of coal mines in Cumberland. ...
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A Defeated People is a 1946 British documentary short film made by the Crown Film Unit, directed by Humphrey Jennings and narrated by William Hartnell. The film depicts the shattered state of Germany, both physically and as a society, in the immediate afte ...
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A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titular baby boy born in September 1944. ...
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A concert short spotlighting Dame Myra Hess performing the first movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, "Appassionata." Filmed in an intimate hall setting, it focuses on her touch and phrasing, presenting the movement as a self-contained s ...
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Short documentary on the use of the V-1 Flying Bomb during the German bombings of London. ...
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The Eighth Army famously adopted a German song in the Western Desert. The Crown Film Unit traces the journey of Lili Marlene from its composition in post-WW1 Hamburg, via Radio Belgrade and the Afrika Korps, through victory in Tunisia and Sicily, to an ima ...
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Humphrey Jennings's Crown Film Unit short on the summer 1944 V-1 "doodlebug" campaign, tracking a salvo from the coast toward London as it runs Britain's layered defenses—coastal AA guns, RAF fighters, and barrage balloons—capturing both interception a ...
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The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales. ...
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British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz in World War II. ...
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A depiction of life in wartime Britain during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the war, all without narration. ...
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The Heart of Britain (1941) depicts wartime life in the North and Midlands, contrasting tranquil countryside with the grit of industry. From Sheffield steelworkers and Lancashire cotton mills to ARP squads, concerts, and choirs, the film highlights resilie ...
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Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence Olivier, illuminate documentary footage of England during its defense against the Nazi blitz in World War I ...
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Edward R. Murrow narrates Humphrey Jennings' short documentary about life in England during wartime. ...
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A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz. ...
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Humphrey Jennings's wartime short rallies Britain's countryside, showing fields ploughed up from fallow, seed sown, and crops raised on once-idle land as part of the national push to feed the home front—an urgent, lyrical call to turn soil into sustenanc ...
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A story of sacrifice, in which organised labour voluntarily relinquishes hard-won workplace rights after being asked "to give up by choice what Hitler takes by force. ...
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Shot in mid-1939 as S.S. Ionian (also shown as Her Last Trip), Humphrey Jennings's GPO short follows the Royal Mail steamer on a last peacetime run through the Mediterranean—Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Haifa—under the gaze of the Mediterranean Fleet ...
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Spare Time is a 1939 British film directed by Humphrey Jennings for the GPO Film Unit, and made for the 1939 New York World's Fair. It is 15 minutes long and documents the leisure activities of workers in the coal, steel, and cotton industries in Sheffield ...
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How long-distance telephone calls are made, from the UK to the USA. We see operators, miles of wires, and the amplification of voice transmitted across the waters. Engineers of the Post Office describe how they are improving the service. ...
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As the subtitle of the film suggests - The Story of a Post Card from Manchester to Graffham - this journey is very much focused on the process of sorting, transporting and delivering the postcard in question. ...
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One of the last voyages of a commercial sailing ship on a trip from Cornwall. ...
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This experiment was a "prestige advertisement" for Shell Motor Oil. As conventional animation became dominated by Walt Disney, many European filmmakers turned to puppets as an alternative, and Lye enlisted the help of avant-garde friends such as Humphrey ...
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Humphrey Jennings' first film as a director, a brief overview of the British postal service. ...
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A concise museum short that traces the evolution of the steam locomotive, using the Science Museum (London)'s model railway collection to chart design leaps from early pioneers to mainline express engines. ...
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The history of wheels, roads and vehicles from cavemen to the coming of steam. ...
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Documentary about Humphrey Jennings, an English documentary filmmaker from the 1930s to 1950. ...
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A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and transmitters, weaving speeches, music, and outside broadcasts—featuring voices like H. G. Wells and Ramsay MacDon ...
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Watch NowThe film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have children; the Potts are unconventional and unhappy, without children. ...
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