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muddle of official communiques and unofficial comments. Better than any verbal explanations these animated diagrams assist one to gauge the exact value and meaning of involved military evolutions which are often so perplexing to the lay mind when dealt with in the ordinary manner. It may almost be said, indeed, that these Kineto maps are essential to a proper understanding of the War.
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Though the exact number is difficult to determine, Smith directed or photographed over one hundred films. On many titles he was not directly credited. The following titles have been compiled from trusted sources such as BFI websites, liner notes for the DVD releases, and the other references listed
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The achievement of the Kineto War Maps is to place before one in concentrated form the true significance of various intricate and extensive operations. In a few minutes, they make absolutely clear and comprehensible important facts which the average reader finds it difficult to grasp fully from the
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Percy Smith was the son of
Francis David Smith (1854-1918) and Ada Blaker (born 1856). An only child, Smith was working as a clerk for the British Board of Education by age 14. The job was uninteresting but sustained his interests in photography and microscopy. In 1899, at age 19, he joined the
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Percy Smith died at his home (now
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Films of fact: a history of science in documentary films and television ; written to mark the centenary of Paul Rotha, documentarist, 1907 - 1984
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Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 - Frank Percy Smith (1945)
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Insect Artisans (1923) dir. Percy Smith, Mary Field
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682:Gaumont-British Instructional: Secrets of Life
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659:In all His Glory (1931) dir. Mary Field
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535:Kineto War Map No. 6 (1 July 1915)
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768:Crustacea (1940) dir. J.V. Durden
705:The Filter (1934) dir. Mary Field
581:An Aquarium in a Wineglass (1926)
360:The Wonders of Harmonic Designing
211:Bedtime Stories of Archie the Ant
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656:Waterfolk (1931) dir. Mary Field
427:Chemical Portraiture (June 1909)
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644:Peas and Cues (11 July 1930)
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