The Mass Observation is certainly a HUGE and not so easy to make project that required the work a great bunch of artist. Recording everyday life isn't s easy as it may seem... it isn't just to go to a church and wait with a camera until people came out; it requires people to choose the right locations, time, moments, people, and situations to listen, write about or film.
I was especially charmed by Humphrey Jennings's film 'A Diary for Timothy'. It is really interesting how the narrator just start explaining serious things like war and life to a small baby that doesn't know anything about the world or himself. Besides, the photography and edition of the film is just perfect, it shows us precisely what we should be imaging with the narrator's words, and it just portrays perfectly the innocence and vulnerabilities of humans when we're as little as newborn baby.
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