1940 Military Training Filmstrip, Part 4 The Pulling and Lifting Machine. By the Army Kinema Corporation, full length short film , in good condition.,inc small can . The Army Kinematograph Service (AKS) was established during the Second World War by the British government in August 1941 to meet the increasing training and recreational needs of the British Army. Created by the newly established Directorate of Army Kinematography, whose remit was “to be responsible for providing and exhibiting all films required by the Army (at home and abroad) for training, educational and recreational purposes”,[1] it expanded over the next few years to become the most prominent film production and exhibition section for a major part of the British Armed Forces. Pre-1939, the Army Kinema Establishment, part of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps based at Aldershot in Surrey, had been responsible for making and exhibiting training films for the Army. In 1940 it was transferred to Wembley Studios (the 20th Century Fox Studios requisitioned for the war) to continue its activities. In August 1941 it was absorbed and expanded into the AKS.[
