For a New and Bright Future: Propaganda in Hungarian Newsreels Between 1945 and 1954

This study firstly emphasize the importance and relevance of analysing newsreels from a history education aspect, which is blind spot in Hungarian research. The official Leninist ideology deeply influenced genre, used as channel overall propaganda, during after communist takeover, between 1945 1954. Production broadcasting depended on political goals turns Communist Party, combined simple messages with easily understandable narrative forms, to support campaigns, spread intended knowledge so on. footages has now digitized open access for everyone (https://filmhiradokonline.hu/): using webpage, through three-step data collecting selection process, database made, 205 items analyse. Three archetypes, basic storytelling forms are detected, I called them metaphorically One many, Occupying space Learning society. development progression country WW2 always represented individual life-stories personal backgrounds get close these stories audience, trying make Soviets communists more popular. At same time, spaces occupied by new power, both physically symbolically, example former castles became schools, training sites, etc., signed expropriation past, too. Definition scope extended discourses, because every member society would learn repeatedly language establishment. Propaganda persuasion was this one could not avoid interacting reflecting somehow this.