Humphrey Jennings

Humphrey Jennings was born in 1907 in Walberswick, in Suffolk, the son of an architect and a painter. He studied English literature at Cambridge, painted, and co-founded a survey in which volunteers wrote down their everyday lives. In 1934 he joined the General Post Office film service and never left documentary. He died in 1950, aged forty-three, from a fall while scouting locations on a Greek island, leaving unfinished a book on the machine and the industrial revolution, which he had been preparing since the late thirties.

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• CinemaFires Were StartedHumphrey Jennings · 1943Cinema