According to information in my possession, you have film for photocinemographic work stored unused.

In view of the urgent need of the Photocinemographic Department of the People's Commissariat of Enlightenment and a number of pressing tasks at hand that have great agitational significance, I request that you transfer at least part of your stock to the Photocinemographic Department of the People's Commissariat of Enlightenment*.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Written July 8, 1920

First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

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