In 1938 , he edited an issue of the '' London Bulletin '' which included a " collection of texts on the Impact of the Machine " and he used this material to prepare a series of talks to miners in the Swansea Valley while making '' The Silent Village '' several years later . This prompted him to add more material and he obtained a contract from Routledge to prepare it for publication as a book ; he worked on it fitfully and thought it was almost ready just before his death . His daughter , Mary-Louise , asked Charles Madge to assist in finally editing it for publication in 1985 as '' Pandaemonium , 1660 – 1886 : The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers '' . The book was cited by writer Frank Cottrell Boyce as an influence in the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony , with an early section of the ceremony named after it
London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony
2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony
Humphrey Jennings