Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Listen to Britain and other films / by Humphrey Jennings.

Edition:

DVD-MOD edition.

Publisher, Date:

[Los Angeles, CA] : Flicker Alley, [2015]

Description:

1 videodisc (182 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in. burning

digital optical

NTSC

video file region 1

DVD video

Summary:

A collection of six films (and one bonus film) by one of the greatest figures in the celebrated British Documentary Film Movement. He is most remembered for the way his work reflects the concerns and conditions of World War II era in the United Kingdom. In these pictures, Jennings's impressive aesthetic arsenal helped to expand the scope and vocabulary of documentary films.

Series:

Blackhawk Films collection

Blackhawk Films collection.

Subjects:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain.

Documentary films -- Great Britain.

Civilian-based defense.

Great Britain -- Civilization.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Short films.

Other Author:

Jennings, Humphrey, film director.

Film Preservation Associates, restorationist (expression)

Other Title:

Container of (work): London can take it!

Container of (work): Words for battle.

Container of (work): Fires were started (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Diary for Timothy.

Container of (work): Family portrait (Motion picture : 1951)

Container of (work): Apassionata (Motion picture : 1945)

Notes:

Films were preserved by Film Preservation Associates.

Title from container.

Full screen 1.33:1.

London can take it, directed by Jennings and Harry Watt ; Words for battle, narrated by Laurence Olivier ; Listen to Britain, directed by Jennings and Stewart McAllister ; produced for DVD by David Shepard. Writer, director, Humphrey Jennings.

Words for Battle spoken by Laurence Oliver. A diary for Timothy narrated by Michael Redgrave.

DVD-R, NTSC.

Contents:

London can take it (1940, 9 mins.) -- Words for battle (1941, 8 mins.) -- Listen to Britain (1942, 18 mins.) -- Fires were started (1943, 70 mins.) -- A diary for Timothy (1943, 39 mins.) -- Family portrait (1951, 26 mins.) -- Myra Hess, playing the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata in F Minor No. 57 (Apassionata) (1945, 9 mins.).

ISBN:

LISTEN TO BRITAIN AND OTHER FILMS BY HUMPHREY JENNINGS

Publisher Number:

FA-MD3 019

Other Number:

929983941

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

737738

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 940.532 Listen t