http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/private PennTags Feed for /tag/private PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/36823 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/36823 <description><p>In a contemporary magazine article, Arthur L. Mayer, who was also Assistant Coordinator of the War Activities Committee - Motion Picture Industry, discusses the role of &ldquo;Private Snafu&rdquo; in documentaries.&nbsp; The &ldquo;Private Snafu&rdquo; films were usually exhibited along with magazines as part of the military service&rsquo;s entertainment package known as &ldquo;G.I. movies.&rdquo;</p> <p>Mayer&rsquo;s discussion reveals that the &ldquo;Private Snafu&rdquo; series acted as effective propaganda with an agenda to advocate and instruct its targeted audience, the soldiers, and was also embedded as entertainment.&nbsp; The incorporation and exhibition of the &ldquo;Private Snafu&rdquo; series vis-&agrave;-vis other forms of media, such as mainstream film and magazines, and exclusively for soldiers demonstrates that branding propaganda as entertainment enhanced its effectiveness.</p></description> </item> <item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/project/27019</guid> <link>http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/project/27019</link> <title>land paper 2