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Battle of Europe
1944
This poster designed by Mayerovitch is for one of the films...
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Fortress Japan
1944
The brightly coloured and cleverly designed poster for...
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Inside France
1944, director: Tom Daly, Stuart Legg
Harry Mayerovitch, who believed in the social function of...
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Our Northern Neighbour
1944, director: Tom Daly
This poster designed by Harry Mayerovitch, of avowedly...
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Trans-Canada Express
1944, director: Stanley Hawes
The film Trans-Canada Express was one of many in the series...
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Wounded in Action
1944
For Harry Mayerovitch, the effectiveness of a good poster...
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Sergeant George A. Game Operating His Camera Near San Leonardo di Ortona
1943
Armed with their cameras, the members of the Canadian Film...
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Canada Carries On presents Wounded in Action
This poster for the 1944 film Wounded in Action is a close-up sketch of a nurse's hand bandaging the wrist of a soldier wounded in action.  Larger image
Harry Mayerovitch, film poster, 1944

For Harry Mayerovitch, the effectiveness of a good poster lay, as is the case here, in reducing the main idea to its essential elements and ruthlessly excluding all unnecessary detail so the message could be understood at a glance.

National Film Board of Canada