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Description: | POSTER SURVEY 2002
Returned from J Andrews Worthing
whole: the image occupies the main, with the title and accompanying text positioned across the top in white. Further text
is placed along the bottom in white and black. All are set against a brown background.
image: the main image depicts a group British soldiers, they include a Scottish Highland infantryman standing foreground left, three
artillerymen operating a field gun in the background right and a mounted lancer background left. All wear ceremonial order and are set
against a smaller image of a rural landscape, featuring a sower in the foreground right.
text: THE BRITISH ARMY
ENTIRELY NEW FILMS NOW PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC FOR THE FIRST TIME
THE ONLY FILM PASSED BY THE ARMY COUNCIL PRODUCED BY KEITH PROWSE AND CO. LTD. ARRANGED BY F. KEITH-JONES AND W.C.CLIFFORD.
G.F.H.S.
Sole Distributing Agents the Gaumont Film Hire Service (Gaumont Co Ltd.) London.
WATERLOW BROS AND LAYTON LTD LITHO LONDON. E.C.
This pre-war army film poster was adapted at the beginning of the First World War to act as a recruiting poster for the
British Army. In so doing it became, unofficially, the first 'pictorial' recruitment poster to be used in Britain. The first 'official'
recruitment poster to feature an image was 'Rally Round the Flag' (see IWM PST 0334), commissioned by the War Office in
1914.
The poster was later adapted as recruitment poster (See PST 12150).
The poster consists of three separate sections, the largest section displays the image, two smaller sections bear the title and the
text.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Weapons Film and Cinema Action Gaumont Film Hire Service [Gaumont Co Ltd] Military Personnel Landscape Uniforms Advertising Artillery WW1 British Home Front | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Waterlow Bros and Layton Ltd, London EC3 | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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