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As many of you know, I, Bruce Hershenson, owner of eMoviePoster.com, have collected pressbooks (and related movie paper like studio yearbooks) for over 30 years, and I have the world's foremost collection of such material. I thought I would share one item with you each week, the type of items you almost surely have never seen before, and which might not come up for sale for DECADES!

So below is the pressbook from World in Flames, the 1940 Albert J. Richard World War II (WWII) era anti-Nazi propaganda newsreel ("CAN WE STOP HIM?"; "Can the dictators boss Uncle Sam? Will the U.S. be blitzkrieged?"; "See Paramount's World In Flames"; "Daring! Sensational!"; "EXTRA! For Patriots Only!"; "London rocked by bombs! Norway occupied! Belgium invaded! Red Army invades Finland! Holland bows to Nazis! Poland smashed! Denmark yields! France calls!"). Note that this newsreel, released a full year before Pearl Harbor, was created by Paramount Studios, no doubt in an effort to help push the United States into World War II! The poster for the newsreel has a great graphic of a Nazi officer crossing out the names of defeated countries (Norway, Holland, and France), and an American soldier's hand is grabbing the Nazi soldier's hand before he can cross out Great Britain! It is noted as being "FOR PATRIOTS ONLY!".

Here is an image of the pressbook's covers and an interior two-page spread:

Each week I will showcase a different pressbook (or related item) from my collection (so in just 20,000 weeks or so, I will have shared the entire collection with you!). And remember to check out our previous Cool Items of the Week in our Cool Item of the Week archive (which is fully searchable!).