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Radar Station (1953)

Radar Station poster
Directed by
Allen Stark
Genre
documentary film
Country
Canada
Runtime
15 min
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This short documentary visits a radar station in Canada in the 1950s. It shows the staff working through a simulated air attack by talking to the people who run the station.

educationalinformativematter-of-factnostalgicobservationaldatedcalm

What happens

Radar Station is a 1953 Canadian short documentary film produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as part of the On The Spot series made specifically for television. The documentary involved an account of a visit to a radar station while it is involved in a simulated air attack, and is based on first-person interviews of the staff at the radar station. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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