Moving Picture Shown... (S. S. "Shinyo Maru")

S. l. : By the author, 1944. Very good. Small leaflet, n. d. (1944); 4 x 6; pale-green stock, printed and ruled in black and illustrated with a vignette; light fading to margins and a few minor spots; in very good condition.An announcement for a moving picture night, with the program featuring three movies - "Matsushima," "Jane's Engagement Party," and "Buckaroo Kid" - the leaflet was most probably distributed among the crew of S. S. "Shinyo Maru," while the latter oversaw the transportation of PoWs. The cargo steamship was built in 1894 and it would go under successive British, Australian, Chinese, and Greek owners, under different names, before being captured by the Japanese in 1941. Renamed "Shinyo Maru" in 1943, it would be used as a Hell Ship to transport allied prisoners until September 1944, when the US Navy submarine USS Paddle torpedoed and sank the ship.