The Mask of Nippon – 1942

Racial stereotypes predominated in Allied propaganda about Imperial Japan.


This rather heavy-handed propaganda film was part of the National Film Board of Canada’s 1942 World in Action series.


Modeled after the popular American March of Time newsreels it was distributed by United Artists.



 


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