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title: Official U.S. Defense Film Today
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/official-us-defense-film-today-1941/
description: 'Film notice: a silhouetted paratrooper hangs beneath a large white canopy while a second figure aims a pistol, under the lines ''Official U.S. Defense Film'''
section: Collection
---

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[![Official U.S. Defense Film Today, 1941 US poster: Film notice](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/official-us-defense-film-today-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/official-us-defense-film-today-1941.jpg)

# Official U.S. Defense Film Today

Film notice: a silhouetted paratrooper hangs beneath a large white canopy while a second figure aims a pistol, under the lines 'Official U.S. Defense Film' and, in large block letters, 'Today'. The tell is transfer: 'Official' and the Office for Emergency Management imprint lend government standing to a screening, while the airborne image links it to the armed forces.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[imprint: DIVISION OF INFORMATION OFFICE FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WASHINGTON, D.C.]
Official
U.S.
DEFENSE
FILM
TODAY
[imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 416719]
[imprint: PHOTO-LIFE MAGAZINE]
[signature: G.]
```

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