Film Screening: Fires Were Started

Humphrey Jennings, widely considered one of the greatest documentary filmmakers, was once described as ‘the only real poet of British cinema’. His talent lay in depicting everyday life in inventive yet authentic ways. Fires Were Started (UK 1943), his most celebrated film, follows a day in the life of a unit of the National Fire Service at the height of the Blitz and blends observation with reconstruction. 

Professor Brian Winston, Lincoln University and founder member of the Glasgow Media Group, introduces the screening.