Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 7: Song and dance in the canteen (Tamil photo poster distributed in Malaya)
A photograph of a crowd of uniformed soldiers, many smiling, gathered in a circle around a man dancing and clapping inside a hall. The Tamil caption reads 'Song and dance in the canteen'. The tell is plain-folks: off-duty fellowship among ordinary soldiers is shown as the texture of army 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 5730009, 306-PPA-108).
Text on the object
இன்றைய மலாயா படத்தொகுதி ஈ பெடரேஷன் இராணுவப் படை கண்டீனில் பாட்டும் நடனமும் [7]
Today's Malaya Picture Set [D] Federation Army Song and dance in the canteen [7]
Header reads 'Today's Malaya, Picture Set [D], Federation Army'.
