Dim Little Island

"A short film composed on some thoughts of past, present and future by four men: Paul Williams, composer; James Fischer, naturalist; John Ormston, industrialist; Osbert Lancaster, cartoonist.

With these words, Humphrey Jennings introduces one of his last documentaries, in which he analyses postwar Britain through these four people. Jennings, above all famous for the compositional qualities of his films to Britain, A Diary for Timothy, Fires were Started), in this respect does not disappoint the spectator with this documentary. The associativ form characteristic of Jennings's work - phenomena, unrelated in time or place, are interwoven by music, editing and comment - has also been applied in Dim Little Island.