Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 6: Soldiers high-jumping in army training (Tamil photo poster distributed in Malaya)
A photograph of a bare-chested man in mid-jump over a rope bar while a group of men in shorts and a coach with a whistle watch on a lawn. The Tamil caption says army training includes competitive games and that the soldiers are high-jumping. The tell is plain-folks: sport and leisure are shown as part of ordinary military life.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- September 3, 1953
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Empire and colonialism
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, September 3, 1953. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730008, 306-PPA-107).
Text on the object
இன்றைய மலாயா படத்தொகுதி ஈ பெடரேஷன் இராணுவப் படை ராணுவப் பயிற்சியில் போட்டியாட்டங்களும் உண்டு. சிப்பாய்கள் உயரத் தாண்டுகின்றனர். [6]
Today's Malaya Picture Set [D] Federation Army There are also competitive games in army training. The soldiers are high-jumping. [6]
Header reads 'Today's Malaya, Picture Set [D], Federation Army'.
