Whilst I am not totally sure vintage Second World War and Cold War propaganda, recruitment, and motion picture posters are the ideal subject for an April Fool web page I was won over by this collection from Vintage Wings of Canada. "The Mills are Alive" was my favourite. See below the poster for a link to the whole set.

Today, it is not widely known that, when Oscar Hammerstein wrote the words to the now iconic “Sound of Music”, he was plagiarizing the message from the famous British “The Mills are Alive” Industrial propaganda poster which encouraged English women to seek employment and training for war work. At the time of the opening of the original Broadway play in 1959 however, some people remembered the posters from the war and whispered behind his back. The old propaganda poster would later inspire the iconic image we have all come to associate with Maria von Trapp and this classic musical tale.

Click, then browse down the page for the whole collection

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