Spare Time
Humphrey Jennings
1939 - Grande-Bretagne - Noir & Blanc - 18'
Photography : H.E. Fowle
Sound : York Scarlett
Editing : Stewart McAllister
Production : GPO Film Unit
Distribution : BFI (fleur.buckley@bfi.org.uk, +44 (020) 7957 4709)
Humphrey Jennings
1939 - Grande-Bretagne - Noir & Blanc - 18'
Spare Time is a Mass Observation film about the ways in which people in the industrial areas of Britain spend their free time. Its very title suggests how removed Jennings was from the dominant philosophy of Griersonian documentary because this film does not glorify the dignity of labour but shows instead the working classes producing their own culture.
Photography : H.E. Fowle
Sound : York Scarlett
Editing : Stewart McAllister
Production : GPO Film Unit
Distribution : BFI (fleur.buckley@bfi.org.uk, +44 (020) 7957 4709)