He Talked....This Happened

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Artist/Maker	Unknown (artist)
Place of origin	Britain (made)

Colour half-tone poster, the top half of which depicts two wartime factory workers talking in a pub and being overheard by a possible spy behind them reading a newspaper. The bottom half shows the factory bombed out. Red and yellow text in capital letters reads 'Now up at our works...he talked...this happened. Careless talk costs lives'.

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Categories	Prints Propaganda Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	He Talked....This Happened (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Colour half-tone print Paper Colour Half-Tone
Brief description	English poster entitled 'He Talked....This Happened'. One of a series of posters issued to aid the 'Careless Talk' campaign during the Second World War, 1939-1945. Britain, colour half-tone.
Physical description	Colour half-tone poster, the top half of which depicts two wartime factory workers talking in a pub and being overheard by a possible spy behind them reading a newspaper. The bottom half shows the factory bombed out. Red and yellow text in capital letters reads 'Now up at our works...he talked...this happened. Careless talk costs lives'.
Dimensions	Size of sheet height: 20in Size of sheet width: 13.25in Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Engraving Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1946. London: Published under the Authority of the Ministry of Education, 1949.
Credit line	Given by the Ministry of Information
Subjects depicted	Factory Second World War
Bibliographic reference	Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Engraving Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1946. London: Published under the Authority of the Ministry of Education, 1949.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.2162-1946

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O605998/he-talkedthis-happened-poster-unknown/

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