‘At the Front’ postcard series c.1916, the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum collection

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Notes

1. See ‘Member of a comedy troupe, dressed as Charlie Chaplin’, Imperial War Museum Collections, Catalogue No. Q 5524; ‘Figure representing Charlie Chaplin’, IWM Collections, Catalogue No. Q 8904; ‘Mark II tank of “C” Battalion, named “Charlie Chaplin 777”’, IWM Collections, Catalogue No. Q 3237.

2. For an introductory overview of cinema exhibition on the front lines during the First World War, see Fuller (1990). The subject of cinema exhibition for soldiers on the front line and at home is more comprehensively documented and examined in the author’s forthcoming PhD thesis (Grosvenor, forthcoming).