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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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