Synopsis:
A day and a night with the Auxiliary Fire Service in London during the Blitz of 1940/41. The film is disputably both fiction and documentary as it is a re-enactment of 'real' events using actual A.F.S servicemen and women. Its status as documentary (as that is how it is most commonly labelled) does not alter its political stance. Jennings was asked to make the film by the Crown Film Unit's producer Ian Dalrymple, and was therefore making the film for the Ministry of Information.
The 63 minute
Fires Were Started is an abridged version of the feature-length
I Was a Fireman.
Synopsis:
A day and a night with the Auxiliary Fire Service in London during the Blitz of 1940/41. The film is disputably both fiction and documentary as it is a re-enactment of 'real' events using actual A.F.S servicemen and women. Its status as documentary (as that is how it is most commonly labelled) does not alter its political stance. Jennings was asked to make the film by the Crown Film Unit's producer Ian Dalrymple, and was therefore making the film for the Ministry of Information.
The 63 minute Fires Were Started is an abridged version of the feature-length I Was a Fireman.