Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "british documentary movement"

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Night Mail ***** (1936, documentary) – Classic Movie Review 9445

Directors Harry Watt and Basil Wright 1936 Night Mail is the stirring and beautiful classic 1930s British documentary short, turning into poetry the apparently mundane subject of the special overnight mail train journey from London to […]

Feb, 29

Spare Time **** (1939, voice of Laurie Lee) – Classic Movie Review 9175

Spare Time (1939) is a classic 15-minute documentary from ace British documentarian Humphrey Jennings on the theme of what the British workers get up to in their spare time. The commentary is provided by the voice […]

Dec, 20

The Silent Village **** (1943, Villagers of Cwmgiedd) – Classic Movie Review 9153

Director Humphrey Jennings’s 1943 World War Two what if? documentary The Silent Village tells how it could have happened in Wales if there had been similar Nazi atrocities there to those perpetrated in 1942 on […]

Dec, 13

Listen to Britain **** (1942, Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Myra Hess) – Classic Movie Review 9140

The 1942 essay film Listen to Britain is a rousing classic wartime documentary short from ace British documentarian Humphrey Jennings, embodying the recorded sounds of vignettes in the nation’s life, as civilians struggle with surviving […]

Dec, 09

A Diary for Timothy **** (1945, Michael Redgrave, Myra Hess, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 9125

What will happen to a baby boy born in 1944, the last September of the war? Director Humphrey Jennings’s 1945 short film A Diary for Timothy is another of his Crown Film Unit classics. Director […]

Dec, 04

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