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title: In the Blackout - Pause as You Leave the Station's Light
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-in-the-blackout-pause-as-you-leave-station-1939/
description: Two stylised faces, half in shadow under bowler hats, appear beneath the heading 'In the Blackout' with the instruction to pause on leaving the station's
section: Collection
---

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[![In the Blackout - Pause as You Leave the Station's Light, 1939 UK poster: Two stylised faces, half in shadow under bowler](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-in-the-blackout-pause-as-you-leave-station-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-in-the-blackout-pause-as-you-leave-station-1939.jpg)

# In the Blackout - Pause as You Leave the Station's Light

Two stylised faces, half in shadow under bowler hats, appear beneath the heading 'In the Blackout' with the instruction to pause on leaving the station's light. The tell is the London Transport roundel: a civil-defence safety instruction is carried under an institution the public already trusts. No enemy is shown.

## 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

```
IN THE BLACKOUT
Pause as you leave
the station's light

[signed:] ZERO
[imprint:] The Baynard Press. 243/1725/1500.
```

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