A surveyor with a movie camera. The role of visual media in shaping the awareness of geographical conditions in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s
A study of the creation of the Czechoslovakia State Film Documentation Project and its goals to promote improvements in the country's infrastructure and to encourage cities and counties to develop functional public service structures. The importance of the project in the tourism industry and many other sectors of the Czechoslovak economy during the depression of 1929-1941. The foreign policy circumstances surrounding the involvement of the Ministry of National Defence. Subsidies and state support for the production of promotional, natural history and geographical films between 1935-1940.
Keywords: state support, state and film, documentary film, geographical film, travelogue film, history of film
Published: December 1, 2010 Show citation
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