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  "Fires Were Started" (BFI Film Classics) (Paperback) By (author) Brian Winston

  

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  Short Description for "Fires Were Started"This work suggests that Humphrey Jennings' re-enacted documentary about the London Blitz, "Fires Were Started", is an understated propaganda masterpiece. It provides an account of how Jennings recaptured the reality of the Blitz for his cumbersome camera through a process of meticulous research.
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  • Publisher: BFI PUBLISHING
  • Published: 27 October 1999
  • Format: Paperback 79 pages
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  • Categories: Films, Cinema | Film Theory & Criticism | Individual Film Directors, Film-makers | Media, Information & Communication Industries | British & Irish History | Second World War
  • ISBN 13: 9780851707730 ISBN 10: 0851707734
  • Sales rank: 399,940

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• This work suggests that Humphrey Jennings' re-enacted documentary about the London Blitz, "Fires Were Started" is an understated propaganda masterpiece whose documentary value, despite the reconstructions required by film technology in the 1940s, remains undimmed. The author provides a full account of exactly how Jennings recaptured the reality of the Blitz for his cumbersome camera through a process of meticulous research and extraordinary sensitivity.