{"id":22526,"date":"2022-01-24T01:04:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T05:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=22526"},"modified":"2022-01-24T01:18:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T05:18:53","slug":"the-jigs-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-jigs-up\/","title":{"rendered":"the jig&#8217;s up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22529\" style=\"width: 176px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kpdak-American-Cinematographer-May-1947.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22529\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22529\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kpdak-American-Cinematographer-May-1947-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a &#8216;fake&#8217; jig in 1940 to discredit the infamous<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. My good friend, George Dunbar, spotted this 1947 ad by Kodak portraying Mr Hitler dancing an inappropriate jig in 1940 during the fall of France. George high-lighted one line in the advertisement which proclaimed, &#8220;with unique reality and objectivity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps unbeknownst to the ad editor, the picture selected and the story about the dance was based on a fake bit of artistic looping of movie film by Scottish-Canadian John Grierson in England. The story of the loop was uncovered again recently by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.professorbuzzkill.com\/about\/\">Dr. Joseph Coohill<\/a>, AKA, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.professorbuzzkill.com\">Professor Buzzkill<\/a>&#8221; \u00a0in a British podcast and text message called, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.professorbuzzkill.com\/hitler-jig-myth\/\">The Hitler Jig<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Summing up this story, George writes,&#8221;I thought this 1947 Kodak ad in [the May] American Cinematographer was unique.\u00a0Particularly in view of the propaganda manipulation that Grierson accomplished in 1940.\u00a0The ad&#8217;s text is ironic &#8230; I doubt that Kodak was aware in 1947.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. My good friend, George Dunbar, spotted this 1947 ad by Kodak portraying Mr Hitler dancing an inappropriate jig in 1940 during the fall of France. George high-lighted one line in the advertisement which proclaimed, &#8220;with unique reality and objectivity&#8221;. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-jigs-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[398,14,21,93],"class_list":["post-22526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-camera","tag-film","tag-kodak","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22526"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22528,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22526\/revisions\/22528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}