May 25 movie: Nazi Interrogation Techniques. This was an Air Forces training film made during WWII. A downed flight crew are manipulated in various ways by their Nazi captors, who gradually tease enough information out of them to piece together the facts about a vital Allied attack in time to ambush it. The first time I saw this, I missed the beginning and didn't realize it was a training film. I just thought it was a B movie. Then at the end, when the base commander turns to the camera and starts explaining in detail what each airman did wrong, I was like "huh?"
We also watched a 20 minute Air Forces recruitment film starring Lt. James Stewart. The movie starts with Stewart climbing out of a North American Harvard plane, which I recognized because I had just been looking at photos of it for my dad's radio show. Stewart spends most of the movie talking about how much money you'll make if you get this job or that job, and trumpeting the fact that a college education is no longer required to join the Air Forces. There's one scene where a guy working at a gas station dreams of being a pilot, though it seems to me that someone with years of experience pumping gas into cars would probably end up ... pumping gas into airplanes.
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