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title: Burma-America Picture News poster, Mar 1957 (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/burma-america-picture-news-mar-1957-burmese-1957/
description: A Burmese-language photo-montage poster under a green banner headed 'Burma-American pictorial news', with six captioned black-and-white photographs
section: Collection
---

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# Burma-America Picture News poster, Mar 1957 (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)

A Burmese-language photo-montage poster under a green banner headed 'Burma-American pictorial news', with six captioned black-and-white photographs of visits and meetings: two men talking over tea, a presentation of a framed gift, men beside stacked bales marked 'Southern Pacific Lines', a group seated with Burmese students, officers and women at an airfield beside an aircraft, and three men in suits. The tell is transfer with plain-folks: the standing of officials and the ease of social exchange are attached to the relationship between the two countries.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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## Text on the object

Original (Burmese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
မြန်မာ အမေရိကန် သတင်းရုပ်စုံ

[six or more photograph captions in Burmese, [illegible] at this resolution]

SOUTHERN [PACIFIC] LINES (lettering on cargo in one photograph)

အမေရိကန် ပြန်ကြားရေးဌာနမှ ထုတ်ဝေသည်။
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Burma-American news pictorial (banner, approximate). Imprint: "Published by the American Information Service [U.S. Information Service]." Photograph captions not translated here.
```

Banner and imprint read approximately; the small-type photograph captions are not transcribed.

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