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Don't Let that Shadow Touch Them is a U.S. War Bond poster created by Lawrence Beall Smith in 1942, [1] created in support of the U.S. war effort upon America's entry into World War II. [2] It features three young children, apprehensive and fearful, as they are enveloped by the large, dark arm of a swastika shadow. [ 3 ]
Many motion pictures during the time, especially war dramas (a form of propaganda itself), included a graphic shown during the closing credits advising patrons to "Buy War Bonds and Stamps", which were sometimes sold in the lobby of the theater. The Music Publishers Protective Association encouraged its members to include patriotic messages on ...
Mr. and Mrs. America was a propaganda short produced by the US Department of Treasury in 1945 to urge citizens to buy and keep war bonds.. Mr. and Mrs. America contains a series of pre-taped messages from leading figures in American life, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, the presidents of the AFL, CIO, US Chamber of Commerce, and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.
An American propaganda poster promoting war bonds, depicting Uncle Sam leading the United States Armed Forces into battle. During American involvement in World War II (1941–45), propaganda was used to increase support for the war and commitment to an Allied victory.
My Japan is a 1945 [1] American anti-Japanese propaganda short film produced to spur sale of American war bonds. The film takes the form of a mock travelogue of Japan, presented by an impersonated Japanese narrator.
The Office of War Information regularly funded movies that encouraged people to enlist, to buy war bonds, etc. [16] Roosevelt hired Frank Capra to head a project called “Why We Fight.” The films were not meant to be propagandist to the American public, as much as they were made as propagandizing documentaries to instruct and orient American ...
Trump has the levers to force Putin to end the Russia-Ukraine war promptly if ... Trump has an opportunity to puncture Putin’s propaganda balloon and suffocate Russia’s economy to the point of ...
Donald's Decision is a four-minute educational short animated film made by the Walt Disney Studios, for the National Film Board of Canada.The film was released theatrically on January 11, 1942 as part of a series of four films directed at the Canadian public to buy war bonds during the Second World War.