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1945Short⏱️ 9m

DocumentaryShort

⭐ 5.5

IMDB Rating

13 votes

Documentary short film depicting the uses of radar in high-level bombing during World War II. B-29 bombers are shown delivering bombs over Japan and using radar to make pinpoint accurate target assessments despite overcast conditi...

Director

N/A

Writers

N/A

Stars

Arthur Kennedy, Clayton Moore

Language

English

Country

United States

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🎭 Top Cast

Arthur Kennedy

as AIr Force Officer

Clayton Moore

as Radar Operator

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio

1.33 : 1

Sound

Mono

Color

Black and White

Filming Location

Culver City, California, USA

Production

First Motion Picture Unit, United States Army Air Forces, The War Finance Division of the U.S. Treasury Department

🏷️ Keywords

year 19451940s20th centuryreenactment

🎯 Categories

DocumentaryShort

⭐ Featured Review

The Captains and the Kings Depart

by boblipton • 2014-03-11

5/10

"Arthur Kennedy narrates this film from the Army Air Force. It's about radar, recently declassified in broad outline, and its part in bombing missions. We then see a bombing raid over Japan from the cramped viewpoint of the radar man, played by future Lone Ranger Clayton Moore. It is clear from early on that this movie was produced after the end of the second World War. Early on, the narration refers to the atomic bomb and at the end, Kennedy notes that the war has been won. Why, then, make this movie? Because even as the armed forces demobilize, the men return to their civilian jobs, fac..."

📖 Synopsis

Documentary short film depicting the uses of radar in high-level bombing during World War II. B-29 bombers are shown delivering bombs over Japan and using radar to make pinpoint accurate target assessments despite overcast conditi...