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Topical Budget 324-1: The Pigeon as Postman (1917)
 

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Soldiers use pigeons to send messages from the front during the First World War.

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A delightful item, showing how pigeons were being used as messengers in wartime, and demonstrating how a newsreel could use astute editing and narrative skills within only a short space to gets its message across. Few British fiction films of this period could demonstrate such a natural filmic sensibility.

Luke McKernan

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Topical Budget: War and Propaganda