Caz
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 Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 1:19 pm Post subject: The John Adam St Gang poster:'Your Country Needs You' |
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Produced by the John Adam Street Gang.
Well who would have guessed? The John Adam St Gang produce a brilliant propoganda poster, which circuits the planet. Questions in the quote below on how it was funded......
How well does their propoganda continue? (The John Adam St Gang, the name a few people don't mention).
http://www.magforum.com/mens/mensmagazinesatoz6.htm
| Quote: | London Opinion [closed]
London Opinion Ltd / Pearson (Newnes), 26 December 1903-27 June 1939; July 1939-April 1954. Weekly till 1939; then monthly
London Opinion started as a men's weekly. The first issue was 'conducted' by A. Moreton Mandeville and cost 1d for eight pages. There was no advertising. Quite how it survived is difficult to imagine from the first issue - pure text (much of it garbled) in three columns a page unrelieved by any illustration and just 3 or 4 sideheads. It was printed on newsprint. The content was a first person ramble around Rome, Thibet [sic], Yorkshire, Should women play golf?, errors in foreigners speaking English, Dickens and Thackeray and Russia. The final page was half-filled with advice on renewing oilcloth and cooking recipes! It was printed by Odhams Ltd, 19-24 Floral St, Covent Garden, London WC2 (near the Lamb & Flag pub!).
However, survive it did, bringing in cartoons and much more varied content. It used large black-and-white cartoons on its cover before adopting colour illustrations in the late 1920s. By 1914 it was also insuring readers for up to £1,000 (a popular tactic with magazines and newspapers since Victorian days). The printer was Love & Malcolmson Ltd, Dove St, High Holborn. The publisher was London Opinion Ltd, Watergate House, York Buildings, the Adelphi. It still costs 1d. The summer annual cost 1/- |
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