Posts Tagged ‘War Posters’
Keep Calm and Carry On…
Readers will recall (from pre-blog days) war posters reissued and (more recently) war posters updated. Now reader AW alerts us to war posters updated and made available on one’s choice of mug, tee shirt, or refrigerator magnet; e.g.,…
See the full range, created by The Propaganda Remix Project, here.
As we remember that the medium is the message, we might recall that on this date in 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud in Philadelphia; and the Liberty Bell, rung.
Not fighting the last war…
From Brian Lane Winfield Moore, inspirational updates of classic war posters– propaganda for the new millennium!
See Norman Rockwell’s original here… and see Brian’s full set here.
As we feel the stirrings of a sense of duty, we might recall that on this date in 1941, NBC broadcast the first TV commercial to be sanctioned by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The appearance of illegal ads on stations earlier in the year had moved the FCC to act; they began licensing commercial television stations in May 1941, granting the first license to NBC. During a Dodgers-Phillies game that was broadcast July 1, NBC pulled the trigger on its newly-acquired right, and ran its first commercial– for which the first legitimate television advertiser, Bulova, paid $4.
The first (legal) television commercial (source: MobHappy)
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