Spare Time
The British Film Institute
Humphrey Jennings epitomizes the artist-filmmaker and this poetic evocation of ordinary people enjoying well-earned time away from the mill, mine, or foundry is a forerunner to Jennings’ later wartime greats such as Listen to Britain. Joyous shots of people either pigeon fancying, ballroom dancing, or swigging a pint down at the local pub in Sheffield, Manchester, Bolton, and Pontypridd are edited with grace and surrealism-infused wit.