Humphrey Jennings
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Humphrey Jennings (19 August 1907, Walberswick, Suffolk – 24 September 1950) was an English documentary filmmaker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organization. Jennings was described by film maker Lindsay Anderson as: "the only real poet that British cinema has yet produced."
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