The story was something like, NASA spent $3 million on the problem of writing in Space and the Russians took a pencil. Smart.
Later, pencil shavings helped to start a fire around a short circuit and burnt up three cosmonauts in their capsule, so they ordered a gross of Space Pens from an ad in the back of Popular Mechanics.
During WW2 pornography was used a lot in propaganda and pyschological operations. I remember a TV show a few years back where and elderly British woman had to alter a negative by hand to show Hitler masterbating. Seriously. You can see the result yourself on this link
http://www.psywarrior.com/sexandprop.html
Just be warned that while this page is fascinating, it is positively and absolutely NSFW. But also remember, everything on this page was produced and paid for by government money of one nation or another.
Anyhow she had to do this all by hand,and the kicker of the thing was according to the interview, the image you see was the second one she had to do. Her commanding officer thought she did a very good jog on her first image, but Hitler's - well, you know what - was too big, and there was a war on you know.
So yes, amazing what you can do without photoshop
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