I saw a brief bit of a film which was made jst before WWII.
It showed a high altitude bomber releasing bombs over New York-these bombs contained poison gas. The effects were total chaos-cars crashing, people panicking and collapsing, etc.
Now, knowing how infatuated certain members of the USAAF were with (the concept of strategic bombing), I can see how many people believed that bombing wold bring a swift end to wars.
At any rate, I’ve never seen this film in its entirety-anybody know what it was called (and who made it)?
If it was animated, then it was likely Victory Through Air Power, one of two feature films Disney doesn’t like to talk about.
No idea. However a little off topic, I once saw a documentary which was set allegedly in the 1930’s.It showed bombers destroying everything and said something like “Wouldn’t have been possible in World War 1”.
Great. There hadn’t been World War 2 so why would you say “World War 1”? If it had been “The Great War” it would have been understandable.
Victory Through Air Power was only semi-animated and it was not pre-World War II (it came out in 1943). I have a copy which I’ve seen once (that’s about enough)… don’t remember a scene like that described in the OP.
It’s either Sky Captain… or The Rocketeer that also makes this mistake; in the time frame of the movie, they should be referring to “The Great War”.
HG Wells’ **The Shape of things to Come **filmed as Things to Come?
Understandable, particularly since it was referred to as The World War at least by 1917, but annoying. Why does everyone always seem to forget that over 1500 people in Britain were killed in air raids during the Great War? The idea of bombing civilians in WWII came because they’d already done it twenty five years earlier. Maybe they couldn’t have destroyed everything, but they did their best.
(Not attacking the poster, by the way, but the source.)
Right, but we never had (and Ghod willing won’t have) a World War III, but nobody finds that phrase puzzling or anachronistic.
The “Great War” was also called “the World War” so it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch in the '20s or '30s to refer to a hypothetical Next Big War as World War II or the Second World War – because that’s exactly how the term World War III is used. :smack:
What about the first film to win an academy award,for best picture in 1929, Wings.
Sounds like* Things to Come*.