British film propaganda in Russia, 1916–1918

Notes

• See Sanders M.L. Wellington House and British Propaganda during the First World War Historical Journal 1975 18 136 ff 136 ff and Sanders, M. L. & Taylor, Philip M. (1982) British Propaganda during the First World War 1914–18, Ch. 3 (London Macmillan).
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• Montgomery to Buchanan, FO 371/2824 1916 January 6
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• The only person whom he considered suitable in Russia at the time was Bernard Pares, Buchanan to FO FO 371/2824 1916 January 3
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• For this and following see Bromhead diaries Senate House, University of London MS 817/1
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• Bromhead to Cinema Committee, Report No. 7 FO 395/25 1916 June 26
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• Bromhead to Cinema Committee, Report No. 8 FO 395/25 1916 July 4
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• Bromhead Report No. 7 FO 395/25 1916 June 26
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• Bromhead Report No. 7 FO 395/25 1916 June 26
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• For an account of the making and propagandist significance of this film see Badsey S.D. Battle of the Somme: British war-propaganda Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, infra 1983
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• Robert , Bruce Lockhar . 1950 . Memoirs of a British Agent 184 ff – 184 ff . During the summer of 1917, Bruce Lockhart had helped out with the film campaign by giving introductory or concluding addresses at the film shows.
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• Report of Anglo-Russian Commission to FO FO 395/25 1917 September 4
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• T. L. Gilmour to Hubert Montgomery FO 395/107 1917 November 26
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• Buchanan to Esmé Howard (ambassador to Sweden) FO 395/181 1918 February 15
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• See Badsey Battle of the Somme: British war-propaganda Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, infra 1983 27 28
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• CAB. 27/189, 19 January 1918, cited in Kettle M.C. The Allies and the Russian Collapse March 1917–March 1918 Deutsch London 1981 237 237
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• For an account of the British propaganda campaign in the United States see Sanders Taylor Wellington House and British Propaganda during the First World War Historical Journal 1975 18 136 ff 136 ff ch. 5
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• FO to Buchanan FO 371/2824 1916 January 12
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• Buchanan to FO FO 371/2824 1916 January 15
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• Memo from Gowers to Montgomery for Bromhead FO 371/2824 1916 January 20
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• Gowers to Montgomery FO 395/25 1916 September 29
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• See Neilson Keith “Joy Rides”: British Intelligence and Propaganda in Russia 1914–1917 Historical Journal 1981 24 892 893
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• For this and detailed discussion of relationship between propaganda and intelligence in Russia, see Neilson “Joy Rides”: British Intelligence and Propaganda in Russia 1914–1917 Historical Journal 1981 24 885 906
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• For a discussion of agitprop and the use of the cinema by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War, see Taylor Richard The Politics of the Soviet Cinema 1917–1929 Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1979 ch. 2 and 3
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• Memo 4 June 1918 PRO, T[reasury] 102/2/file 1. See also Sanders Taylor The Politics of the Soviet Cinema 1917–1929 ch. 2 and 3. There is a photograph of a cine-motor showing army pictures in Trafalgar Square during London Tank Week 4–9 March 1918, IWM, Department of Photography, negative no. Q54382.
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• See Hollins T.J. The conservative party and film propaganda between the wars English Historical Review April 1981 96 359 369 The cinema vans of the Conservative Party took the technology a step further with their use of back projection. For further details on the cine-motors see Reeves, N. Film propaganda in the First World War, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1981, p. 250.
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