Humphrey Jennings

1907–1950

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Historic and Modern British Art: Reality and Dreams: 1920–1940

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Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings (19 August 1907 – 24 September 1950) 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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