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(97) L.646 - Men from the line getting aquainted with a cinema machine before giving shows up the line
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > David McLellan > (97) L.646 - Men from the line getting aquainted with a cinema machine before giving shows up the line |
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| Description | Soldiers looking at a film projector, France, during World War I. An officer is showing a small group of soldiers how to work a cine film projector. The officer has the Royal Arms as a cap badge. This suggests that he is on the General List which included officers not assigned to particular regiments. The men being taught may be from a number of regiments. The corporal on the left has the letters 'KORR' on his shoulder, probably the Kings Own Royal Regiment. The man in the right foreground has a shoulder badge of a grenade and the letters RWF, the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. This image may have been intended to reassure the public that the army looked after the soldiers. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Cinema entertainments for our troops in France. Men from the line getting acquainted with a cinema machine before giving shows up the line.'] |
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| Description | Formerly a photographer with the 'Daily Mirror’, a newspaper which led the field in pictorial journalism, McLellan was appointed as an official war photographer in December 1917 along with Tom Aitken whose work also features in this collection. McLellan is especially noted for his work capturing the huge scale of operations on the Front. McLellan was one of five official photographers working on the Western Front, for the propaganda department during the last two years of the war. The photographers were driven to the site the authorities wanted them to photograph, which meant that most of their material was also largely censored. This did not, however, mean that the photographer did not get to know the people in the picture. |
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| Description | Black-and-white photographs mainly of the Western Front during the First World War. Official British war photographers took many of them for propaganda purposes. Unless otherwise stated, titles are the photographs' original captions. From the papers of Field Marshal (Earl) Haig (1861-1928). The Haig Papers also contain Douglas Haig’s diaries. |
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| Shelfmark | Acc.3155 |
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