Humphrey Jennings, 1907-1950: A Tribute

Slim, unpaginated booklet with black and white plate illustrations.  Original purple paper wraps, lettered in white and black, with a central cameo portrait of Jennings.  8vo.  Covers are a little worn, rubbed around edges and lightly sunned around the spine, with a flat crease on the rear panel.  A glassine protective clear sleeve has kept the covers clear, but it was taped to the inside covers and the tape has left residue.  There is a small doodle at the top of the first leaf else internally neat. clean and tight.

Jennings was a visionary documentary film-maker, surrealist artist and poet, widely regarded as one of the most significant figures in the post-war British film industry and cinema.  Best known for his war time propaganda and morale-boosting films,  he was also a pioneer of in the fields of anthropology and sociology: he was one of the co-founders of the Mass Observation project in 1937.  Jennings career was cut short but his untimely death in an accidental fall in Greece, while scouting for locations, in 1950.