I'm watching this now on ABC in Australia. It really is quite disturbing. The advance of decades with the ruined buildings is quite prophetic considering WW2 and The Blitz was only a few years away. Imagine a time where that war had not yet happened. Bizzare.
1970 now. WHERES THE FLARES TIE DYES AND THE ROCK N ROLL.
Some of the sets and imagination of the future are quite amazing. And this film was made 74 years ago. That's as old as my dear old dad and I'm 45. Freaking me out now.
shareThese sets are amazing. WAY ahead of their time. The design of the helicopter is just brilliant.
shareI found the depiction of the first air raid to be quite disturbing, knowing that was almost exactly what was to happen to London, four years later. (Although thank God the Germans never used poison gas and London civilians in general didn't panic during air raids).
'Monsters? We're British!'
Hitler forbade the use of poison gas except as a retaliatory response in kind; both sides remembered that special sort of misery from the first war (especially Hitler, as he had personally experienced a gas attack when he was in the trenches), and wanted to at least spare their troops that, even if they could not spare them the bullets, artillery, and bombs...
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