Fires Were Started
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Still from the documentary Fires Were Started | |
| Directed by | Humphrey Jennings |
| Written by | Humphrey Jennings |
| Produced by | Ian Dalrymple |
| Starring | William Sansom George Gravett Phillip Wilson-Dickson Fred Griffiths Loris Rey Johnny Houghton T. P. Smith John Barker |
| Cinematography | C.M. Pennington-Richards |
| Edited by | Stewart McAllister |
| Music by | William Alwyn |
| Distributed by | Crown Film Unit |
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Running time | 65 min. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Fires Were Started (also known as I Was a Fireman ) is a 1943 British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings and produced by the Crown Film Unit. Filmed in documentary style, it shows the lives of firefighters over one day and night of the Blitz during the Second World War. The film uses actual firemen (including Cyril Demarne) rather than professional actors.