Content note: Animated frame of looming uniformed silhouettes with glowing eyes above a crouching farmer. This object is shown as it was published. Why
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.
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. War Department, Information and Education Division, Army Service Forces (Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Film stills
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Fear appeal
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Internet Archive item 'KnowYourEnemyJapan' (digitised copy of National Archives film 111.OF.10, Record Group 111, U.S. Army Signal Corps), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- U.S. federal work; Internet Archive Public Domain Mark 1.0
U.S. War Department, Army Service Forces, Information and Education Division; Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps (film credited to Frank Capra and Joris Ivens, uncredited on screen). Digitised by the U.S. National Archives, via the Internet Archive.
Text on the object
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).
