--- title: War Pictorial url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/war-pictorial-uk-1939/ description: 'A double-width photo sheet titled ''War Pictorial'' combines four numbered photographs with captions: sailors carrying ammunition aboard HMS Argonaut.' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. War Pictorial [![War Pictorial, 1939 UK poster: A double-width photo sheet titled 'War Pictorial' combines four numbered photographs](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/war-pictorial-uk-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/war-pictorial-uk-1939.jpg) # War Pictorial A double-width photo sheet titled 'War Pictorial' combines four numbered photographs with captions: sailors carrying ammunition aboard HMS Argonaut, Army Film Unit cameramen filming an air raid, General Montgomery on a tank captioned 'The man who beat Rommel', and a six-pounder anti-tank gun captioned 'Death to the Axis tanks'. The tell for card-stacking is that only successful or active moments of one side are selected and captioned with triumphant framing, with no losses shown. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` WAR PICTORIAL 1 THE AMMUNITION GOES ABOARD. SAILORS OF H.M.S. "ARGONAUT" CARRYING AMMUNITION ON TO THEIR SHIP. 2 THE MEN WHO TAKE THE PICTURES. MEN OF THE ARMY FILM UNIT FILMING AN AIR-RAID IN THE DESERT. 3 THE MAN WHO BEAT ROMMEL. GENERAL MONTGOMERY WATCHES THE BATTLE, WITH A TANK AS HIS GRAND-STAND. 4 DEATH TO THE AXIS TANKS. A SIX-POUNDER ANTI-TANK GUN IN ACTION IN NORTHERN AFRICA. [imprint:] 15 Printed in England. ``` [← Victory of the Allies Is Assured](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/victory-of-the-allies-is-assured-uk-1939/) [¿Y Tú Qué Haces por Tu Patria? →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/y-tu-que-haces-por-tu-patria-mexico-1939/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.