Target Invisible (1945)

Original title

Target - Invisible

Genre

propaganda film

Country

United States

Runtime

9 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1945 documentary short film shows how the US Army Air Forces used radar to guide bombers during World War II. A narrator thanks Americans for their war effort and asks viewers to buy victory bonds to fund continued research.

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What happens

Target-Invisible is a 1945 documentary short film produced by the First Motion Picture Unit after World War II. The film depicts the uses of radar in aerial direction-finding and precision high-level bombing by the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. At the end of Target-Invisible, the air force narrator (Arthur Kennedy) thanks Americans for their contributions to the war effort, which by then had concluded with Allied victory, and explains that the film was an example of the research and development being funded through the purchase of Victory Loan war bonds encouraging the viewer to buy and hold more such bonds to continue these projects into peacetime. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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