V for Victory

Collaborators : McLaren, Norman | National Film Board of Canada (Ottawa)

In this publicity short designed to sell Victory bonds and drawn directly onto film stock, a stick figure moves to John Philip Sousa’s military march “The Thunderer.”.

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