Cover artwork for 'Films No 5' an Australian Army Education Service pamphlet

Place Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney
Accession Number ART93117
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 36 x 34.8 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description gouache, ink and pencil on card
Maker Hanna, John
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made October 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright unknown

Description

Depicts various film genres including slapstick, westerns, gangster, film noir, femme fatale, with a director and stage hand overseeing all these depictions in the work. The work was created as a cover for the Australian Army Education Service Discussion Pamphlet issue, "Films No 5". The work was created for an issue that discussed film in culture and society.