WWII "gremlins" safety posters

Vintage Ads poster Write_light rounds up a collection of WWII "gremlins" safety posters, beauties every one.

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http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/ tristan eldritch

Did all the old timey ad guys basically draw on personal experience of severe delirium tremens for inspiration?
theophrastvs

always thought there was a connection between gremlins and ballet; here at long last is proof.
Back Up Our Battleskies! (lest we suffer battlesky lossage)
Guest

So, No eating after midnight, America!!
benher

They’re Gremlins from the Kremlin!
- http://www.facebook.com/postelwait Cameron Postelwait
  
  i like your rhyme, but they were on our side at the time…
hawkins

Bugs Bunny deals with this pressing wartime issue here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1xqrdtJs8w , in a very cool 1940s edition.
lifeboatb

Weirdly, I was just reading this last night: http://secondat.blogspot.com/2010/10/gremlins.html

re: “Gremlins/Kremlin”"Disney tried to urge other studios against working with his characters — so of course, Robert Clampett went on to make two separate cartoons featuring Gremlins. First, he used a gremlin to battle Bugs, who, unusually, gets the worst of it in Falling Hare (1943). The title of the second cartoon was changed from Gremlins from the Kremlin to the somewhat less effective Russian Rhapsody (1944) before being released.”http://meinekleinefabrik.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html
Standish

I was always told that the word ‘Gremlins’ was a Royal Air Force personnel invention, blending the words ‘goblin’ and ‘Fremlins’ – a big brewer of beer in Kent, in the south of England. The idea being to personify the sort of mishap that occurs when mechanics are badly hung over. If there’s any truth in that, then it’s interesting how far the idea has carried.

http://www.dover-kent.com/Breweries/Fremlins-Brewery-Maidstone.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

“I was always told that the word ‘Gremlins’ was a Royal Air Force personnel invention”

Yes, see lifeboatb’s link above.

I read a long article in Hoagan’s Alley, a comic-strip-history zine, about Disney’s attempt to make a cartoon feature based on Dahl’s book.