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I Films have become part of many curriculums in Service training. Their value in propaganda purposes is tre- mendous. Our Ministry of Information, corresponding roughly to the German Ministry of Propaganda has spon- sored many films whose quality it must be confessed, has varied as much as their subjects and their lengths. Some have been really brilliant and inspiring, such as “ Target for Tonight,” “ Britain Can Take It,” “ Men of the Light- ship.” “ Wavell's 30,000," “ Seaman Frank Goes Back to Sea," and “ Ferry Pilot. ’ These, all documentaries, were made with intelligence and spirit, intelligently com- mentated. We must mention, too, documentary films of Russia that we have seen since that country so dramati- cally entered the war, for the majority of us knew little about that vast country. “ A Day in Soviet Russia ” was about the first to be shown, and gave us glimpses of a typical working day in the lives of her varied people —the peasant, factory worker and so on. Since Leslie Banks and Frank Cellier in “The Big Block- ade." Laraine Day, Barry Nelson and Stvart Crawford in “ China Caravan." then many other excellent films have followed including the impressive “ 50 Degrees Below ” —which showed us the actual storming of the Mannerheim Line in Russia’s war with Finland and gave us enthralling pictures of the waging of an offensive in conditions of the most intense cold—the difficulties of an infantry attack in knee-deep snow—the speed and dash of almost invisible ski troops with their white camouflage overalls over their warmly-padded clothing— tanks lumbering to breach the defences, pulling troops on sleighs behind them. “ Wavell’s 30,000 " was the story of our first Libyan campaign, and it made absorbing entertainment, with the commentator’s place occasionally taken by speakers from the R.A.F., the Royal Navy and the Army. And in that war, in which we took over four hundred thousand prisoners, not once did we have more than thirty thousand men in action at once. A more complete contrast in conditions of this desert warfare to the Russian picture could not be imagined —conditions equally as difficult and gruelling as the Russian. Another documentary that deserves special mention was “ The Big Blockade,” which showed us in detail the terrific ramifications and immense organisation of our economic strangulation of Germany. The newsreels have given us vivid glimpses of the war. Newsreel men voyaged to Norway brought back thrilling Clark Gable and Rosalind Russell in “ They Met in Bombay." Finlay Currie as the factor of the trading post, Laurence Olivier as Johnnie the French-Canadian trapper, and Eric Portman as the Nazi U-boat lieutenant . in " 49 th Parallel." 82