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title: 'Know Your Enemy: Japan, animated frame of looming uniformed figures above a crouching farmer'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/know-your-enemy-japan-militarists-farmer-animation-1945/
description: 'Black-and-white animated frame: five tall, dark silhouetted figures in peaked caps, arms folded and eyes glowing white, stand in front of rising-sun rays…'
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Animated frame of looming uniformed silhouettes with glowing eyes above a crouching farmer. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Know Your Enemy: Japan, animated frame of looming uniformed figures above a crouching farmer](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/know-your-enemy-japan-militarists-farmer-animation-1945.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/know-your-enemy-japan-militarists-farmer-animation-1945.jpg)

# Know Your Enemy: Japan, animated frame of looming uniformed figures above a crouching farmer

Black-and-white animated frame: five tall, dark silhouetted figures in peaked caps, arms folded and eyes glowing white, stand in front of rising-sun rays above a small, brightly lit crouching figure working the ground. Scale, darkness and glowing eyes stage the Japanese military leadership as an overpowering menace (fear-appeal); the frame carries no spoken or printed argument.

## Text on the object

Checked for printed text

No printed or legible text on this object.

Checked on the extracted frame: no lettering is present. The film's narration over this scene is not transcribed (the Internet Archive speech-to-text track is too error-prone to quote).

[← Know Your Enemy: Japan, text card quoting a Japanese Army press officer on a 'hundred years war'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/know-your-enemy-japan-hundred-years-war-card-1945/) [Know Your Enemy: Japan, War Department Orientation Film title card (OF-10) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/know-your-enemy-japan-war-dept-title-card-1945/)

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