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title: Still from "Japanse propaganda tentoonstelling", Japanese military propaganda film shot in Java (c. 1944)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-propaganda-film-exhibition-java-1944/
description: 'Two men stand before a painted naval battle: a visitor in a black peci cap and a gallery attendant in a light shirt and cap, both Indonesian.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Still from "Japanse propaganda tentoonstelling", Japanese military propaganda film shot in Java (c. 1944)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/japanese-propaganda-film-exhibition-java-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/japanese-propaganda-film-exhibition-java-1944.jpg)

# Still from "Japanse propaganda tentoonstelling", Japanese military propaganda film shot in Java (c. 1944)

Two men stand before a painted naval battle: a visitor in a black peci cap and a gallery attendant in a light shirt and cap, both Indonesian. In the film they are shown talking, in a scene the archive's catalogue calls staged, about the strength of the American fleet, which the attendant says Japan will overcome.

- **Date:** 1944
- **Period:** [Second World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwii)
- **Made by:** Propaganda department of the Japanese military administration in Java (film producer recorded as unknown)
- **Region:** [Southeast Asia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=southeast-asia)
- **Country:** [Empire of Japan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=empire-of-japan)
- **Medium:** [Film stills](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=film-still)
- **Issuer type:** [Military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=military)
- **Regime:** [Showa Japan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=showa-japan)
- **Leader:** [Hideki Tojo](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=hideki-tojo)
- **Audience:** [Foreign public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=foreign-public)
- **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Empire and colonialism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=empire-colonialism), [Media and information](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=media-information)
- **Event:** [World War II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-ii)
- **Techniques:** [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Open Beelden (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision)](https://www.openbeelden.nl/media/1301549), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public Domain Mark 1.0 (as marked by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision on Open Beelden; producer unknown) Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Beeld en Geluid), Open Beelden, "Japanse propaganda tentoonstelling" (Public Domain Mark 1.0)

[← Catania, Sicily: reading Allied news under U.S. and British flags, 1943](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/catania-allied-news-display-1943/) [Staking brengt alleen ellende over uw eigen volk (Strike brings only misery upon your own people) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/staking-brengt-alleen-ellende-1944/)

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