why are the cars in the film with white borders?
Is this a military thing? Never seen it anywhere else, in any other films, including documentaries???
shareI think it's a Royal Navy thing
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It was a wartime blackout thing.
When the cities imposed a night time blackout, this included vehicle lighting. The accident rate rose so dramatically that vehicles had sections of their bodywork painted white to make them more visible at night.
All correct, all manner of obstacles were painted white or black and white, kerb-stones, street-light poles, traffic-lights, as well as car-bumpers (fenders US) Many of these persisted long after the war to improve road-safety, and derivatives of these measures form modern road-safety markings all over the world.
A similar scheme was used for military vehicles, with the addition of a small circular white plate just aft of the vehicles rear axle. This enabled the shrouded headlamps of a following vehicle in convoy to maintain distance from the vehicle in front, whilst showing no reflection visible from the air, or tail-lights.