film.Forexample,thespectraloverviewmixingsocialrealismandpoetic
estrangementcanbefoundinHumphreyJennings’sclassicshortfilms
Spare Time( 1939 )andListen to Britain( 1942 ).^22
Anyorchestrationofimagesismontage,althoughthetermisoften
narrowlyunderstoodasanoppositiontothestraightphotograph.Bertolt
Brecht’sfamouslypoliticalcallfromthe 1920 sforapracticeofmontageis
oftenreadassuch:
AphotographoftheKruppworksortheaegtellsusnothingabout
theseinstitutions.Actualrealityhasslippedintothefunctional.
Thereificationofhumanrelations–thefactory,say–meansthat
theyarenolongerexplicit.Sosomethingmustinfactbebuilt up,
72 somethingartificial,somethingposed.^23
60 Spread from Bill Brandt’s book
A Night in London(London, 1938).
