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- ID
- cx159
- Title
- 'The Film in War'
- Genre
- Essay
- Page Count
- 3
- Word Count
- 1200
- Publisher
- Royal Air Force Journal
- Publication Year
- 1942
- Document Types
- Full-text Online
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A discussion of the role of film in the first World War and then in the initial years of the second.
Although Bates does discuss films intended as entertainment, he gives more attention to documentary, propaganda, and instructional films, especially focussing on the influence on military security of the film The Next of Kin.
In the Royal Air Force Journal (August 8, 1942, pp. 25-27, attached).
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