Pinewood Studios

<p>J Arthur Rank founded Pinewood Studios (Wiki)</p>

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Humphrey Jenning was based there: - see quote below from Sir Richard Attenborough</p>

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Lord Attenborough says in a memoir on Jennings: “I first met Humphrey Jennings during the Second World War, when I was 19. I had been taken on by Flying Training Command in 1943 and put into the RAF film unit. This was based at Pinewood studios, and so was Humphrey. I was a private at that time, and mad about movies, and he was working on a number of films. I remember two of them in particular: Listen to Britain and A Diary For Timothy. It was my first experience of sitting in a cutting room watching a man judging what to edit, and I was absolutely bowled over.

“Humphrey really came across as somebody who wanted to make a film because he had something to say. He wanted to express a view and an attitude. Along with other documentary-film-makers, he was a pioneer. He developed the idea of placing real people in their circumstances, experiencing their experiences, and filming it so that, although it could be edited, the film was still in large measure their creation.”

He said that he can remember sitting, watching Jennings cut his movies together goggle-eyed and filled with hero-worship. “I remember Humphrey's excitement and pleasure in pointing something out to me … and I found even the primitive technology of the cutting room absolutely magical. He was a sweet - an awful silly word to use - but he was a sweet man. Passionate about what he did, he was never condescending. He accepted me as an enthusiast, as a kid who knew damn all but who was passionate about this medium.”

http://www.eadt.co.uk/ea-life/forgotten-suffolk-film-maker-restored-1-86058</p>