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title: Curtain Time U.S.A. poster (English poster distributed in Beirut)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/curtain-time-usa-english-beirut-1965/
description: A cartoon poster of a smiling couple in red-and-white striped clothes, she waving a handkerchief and he raising a straw boater.
section: Collection
---

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[![Curtain Time U.S.A. poster, 1965 US poster: A cartoon poster of a smiling couple in red-and-white striped clothes, she waving](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/curtain-time-usa-english-beirut-1965.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/curtain-time-usa-english-beirut-1965.jpg)

# Curtain Time U.S.A. poster (English poster distributed in Beirut)

A cartoon poster of a smiling couple in red-and-white striped clothes, she waving a handkerchief and he raising a straw boater, under a red scalloped stage-curtain border. The sheet names the Department of State as presenter of 'Curtain Time U.S.A.' and gives no performance details. The tell is transfer: festive stage imagery and national colours are attached to the sponsoring government, with no dates, venue or content stated.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
CURTAIN TIME
U.S.A.
A presentation of
The Department of State,
United States of America
```

[← Pictures in the News poster, No. 4 (English, Beirut)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pictures-in-the-news-no-4-english-beirut-1965/) [Health Means Happiness poster, No. 349 (Thai, Bangkok) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/health-means-happiness-thai-1965/)

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