Humphrey Jennings
Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings was an English documentary filmmaker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organisation. Jennings was described by film critic and director Lindsay Anderson in 1954 as "the only real poet that British cinema has yet produced."
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Pandaemonium: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers 1660-1886
by Humphrey Jennings
Rating: 3.7 ⭐
The book which inspired Danny Boyle's unforgettable Olympic opening ceremony, featuring an exclusive Foreword by ceremony scriptwriter Frank Cotterell-Boyce. 'A masterpiece of collage that reads like a novel' The Times. Collecting texts taken from letters, diaries, literature, scientific journals and reports, Pandaemonium gathers a beguiling narrative as it traces the development of the machine ag
Year: 2012Pages: