"Pandaemonium was the biggest single inspiration for the Olympics Opening Ceremony . . . the book is the equivalent of Pepys giving a guided tour of the birth of electricity and the mechanical age—it's brilliant, exciting, and essential."—Danny Boyle
Humphrey Jennings was a film maker and one of the co-founders of the Mass Observation Project.

Pandaemonium 1660-1886: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers (Picador)

Politics & Social Sciences

Jennings, Humphrey

Madge, Charles

Jennings, Mary-Lou

Social Sciences

Macmillan Education Australia Pty Ltd

This collection of writings is about the Industrial Revolution. The extracts are taken from diaries, letters, scientific reports and literature. Each piece sheds light on those that come before and after, as it measures how the human imagination experienced the Industrial Revolution.

Pandaemonium: The Coming of the Machine As Seen by Contemporary Observers

MACMILLAN PUB. LTD.

Pandaemonium 1660–1886: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers

History

Europe

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Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950) has long been recognised as one of Britain's greatest film directors. His studies of national life, and particularly his three wartime films "Listen to Britain", "Fires Were Started" and "A Diary for Timothy", invaluable documents of their times, remain among the highest achievements of world cinema - humane, innovative and poetic. Jennings's films are rich due to the drama of subject matter and the range of passions and skills he brought to his work. He was a gifted painter, a key member of the Surrealist movement; a poet and literary critic; a founder of the domestic anthropological movement Mass Observation; and a historian, who assembled an anthology about the Machine Age, "Pandcemonium". The "Humphrey Jennings Film Reader" tells the story of his brief, varied life in his own words, using many previously unpublished letters, treatments and screen-plays. It reprints all of his published critical writings on literature, painting and other subjects (most of them unavailable in book form since the 1930s), the texts of his radio broadcasts for the BBC and a selection of his poems.

The Humphrey Jennings film reader

Carcanet

This anthology of the letters, articles, scripts, and radio talks composed by famous British filmmaker Humphrey Jennings offers readers a window into the life and times of this most idiosyncratic of creative talents who gained national renown by documenting the everyday heroism of ordinary British citizens during and after World War II.

Humphrey Jennings Film Reader

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Carcanet Press Ltd.

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