Bomber: A Defense Report on Film
1941 | 10m | English
Popularity: 0.1 (history)
| Director: | Carl Sandburg |
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| Writer: | Carl Sandburg |
| Staring: |
| Documentary short demonstrating the process of building a medium bomber for the United States Army Air Corps. | |
| Release Date: | Oct 03, 1941 |
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| Director: | Carl Sandburg |
| Writer: | Carl Sandburg |
| Genres: | War, Documentary |
| Keywords | war propaganda |
| Production Companies | Office of Emergency Management |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jun 28, 2024 Entered: Jun 29, 2024 |
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"Born of fire, to fight fire, with fire". This is quite an interesting short documentary about the manufacture of American bombers or "ships". What's also quite noticeable here is this massive military escalation in construction is being done without naming an enemy! The photography illustrating the ... welding, hammering, screwing and precision assembly is quite niftily put together and the sheer power of these flying fortresses is impressively demonstrated in the air, but the film is really over-scored and the fervency of the narrator becomes a bit overwhelming. At times, it's almost like someone is in a pulpit preaching the foreboding hell and damnation on any who test the might of the United States in the skies. That's probably what was intended, and there's no doubt the sheer scale of these operations is intimidatory and that's effectively shown here.