Picturegoer — Week ending 20 February 1943
Marjorie Reynolds cover · ‘Shield over Freedom’ / Wings for Victory · Betty Grable feature
Picturegoer for the week ending 20 February 1943, with Marjorie Reynolds on the colour cover. Its rear page is a particularly forceful piece of British wartime visual culture: ‘Shield over Freedom’ traces air defence from Dunkirk, Singapore, Crete and Malta to Allied advance and then asks readers to support a local ‘Wings for Victory’ savings week so that ‘MORE PLANES’ can be produced.
Read the catalogue note →- Organisation
- Odhams Press
- Condition
- Good to very good appearance for an original 1943 wartime issue, ungraded. Strong colour cover with moderate spine and edge wear, scattered handling marks and a pronounced horizontal crease across the cover image. Expected paper toning internally; supplied pages remain highly legible.
- Completeness
- Assumed complete under the standing TMR magazine rule unless the owner states otherwise. Front cover, rear page and one interior spread are supplied; no page-by-page collation has been performed.
- Date
- Week ending 20 February 1943
- Territory
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Format
- Illustrated film fan magazine; cover states ‘Every Other Thursday’
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Status
- Original period publication
- Release context
- British wartime Picturegoer issue combining Marjorie Reynolds glamour cover, Hollywood editorial and National Savings Committee air-power / Wings for Victory campaigning
Catalogue note
Picturegoer for the week ending 20 February 1943, with Marjorie Reynolds on the colour cover. Its rear page is a particularly forceful piece of British wartime visual culture: ‘Shield over Freedom’ traces air defence from Dunkirk, Singapore, Crete and Malta to Allied advance and then asks readers to support a local ‘Wings for Victory’ savings week so that ‘MORE PLANES’ can be produced. The appeal is surrounded by ordinary beauty, medicine, dental-care and film-star merchandise advertising. Inside, W. H. Mooring’s Hollywood column sits opposite a large Betty Grable feature, preserving the coexistence of wartime mobilisation and Hollywood glamour within a mass-market British film magazine.
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Archive Importance: 9.8 / 10 · Gold Star.
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