Manipulacja nie tylko uliczna. Wizerunek pierwszomajowego święta w materiałach Polskiej Kroniki Filmowej

THE AUTHOR PRESENTS research results from materials of the Polish Film Chronicle in the years 1944–1994. He shows the way, in which the Feast May, 1st was created there. He points out the main ideas and slogans that were used during this Feast and presented in the Chronicle. The analysis leads to the conclusion that the Chronicle has for years presented this Labor Day as a happy, spontaneous feast of peace celebrated by many people from different social classes which also gave them the opportunity to meet the leading representatives of the authority. Of course this representation was not accidentally shown to the society. This is what the machinery of communist state expected using the Polish Film Chronicle (PKF) to create a certain vision of the world, not necessarily compatible with the truth.