Victory Through Air Power - Animated History Of Aviation (1942)
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A United Artists/Walt Disney production covering history of aviation from the Wright Brothers first flight to the role of air power in early World War II. Includes speculation on how air power should be used to best advantage against Germany and Japan as formulated by aviator/aircraft designer, Maj Alexander P. de Seversky.
(Note: Entire film is animation except for clips of Brig Gen Billy Mitchell and Maj de Seversky speaking.)
Reel 1: 1) MCU of Brig Gen Billy Mitchell speaking. 2) Animation depicting historical flights by aviation pioneers such as the Wright Brothers, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Louis Bleriot, C. S. Rolls, Eugene Ely, Cal Rodgers, Charles A. Lindbergh, Wiley Post, Howard Hughes and the crews of the NC-4 and the Douglas World Cruisers. 3) Animation depicting World War I aviation and the advent of the synchronized machine gun and aerial bombardment. 4) Still photographs and animation depicting career of Maj de Seversky and his contribution to aviation. 5) Animation depicting role of aviation as used by Germany in the invasion of France, Norway and Crete, the RAF during the evacuation at Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the sinking of British warships, PRINCE OF WALES and REPULSE. 6) Maj de Seversky speaking. 1217': Total footage in reel.
Reel 2: 1) Maj de Seversky speaking. 2) Animation depicting US war production and its logistic problems, geographical advantages of logistics held by Germany and Japan and the effects of unrestricted submarine warfare by the German Navy. 3) Animation depicting methods of defeating Germany through close air support and strategic bombing, the disadvantages of allied bombing operations against Japan from China, Siberia, aircraft carriers and bases gained through island invasions and the advantages to be gained by bombing Japan from Alaskan bases with long range bombers. 4) Animation depicting advantaged of the long range heavily armed bomber over attacking fighter planes and how bombardment by these aircraft, of hydroelectric sites and submarine pens can shorten the war.
1124': Total footage in reel.
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I’m not here because of Film Theory. I’m watching Disney movies in chronological order.
Same here. And this is not on Disney plus
Yes! Me too!!
Same here XD. Or at least, all the ones I can find. A lot aren't even on Disney Plus
Me as well
Me too!
Every time my family says let’s throw on a Disney classic my vote is always for victory through air power
I AM IMPRESSED That DISNEY payed respect to Alberto Santos-Dumont. Not many people know of him.
Walt certainly was a mixed bag of behavioural sweets 🍬
A one that knows anything about aviation knows Dumont. There's more than a few wrong headed conclusions here.
They do in Brazil!
Even the Wright Brother's were not "official" yet. As far as the US government was concerned. Langley, the Smithsonian guy who was behind a failed steam aircraft & never had an aircraft of his invention fly successfully, was the inventor of controlled heavier than air flight. Not long after this film, that was corrected.
For future aero students strap yourself in because your're in for one hell of a journey - Imperial 2020 Aero Student
Better to actually study the true history of aviation and forget this nonsense.
Dear god I feel like I’ve already climbed Everest now this?
@@Glicksman1 In what way? After watching this some of the thinking behind the strategies used in WW2 becomes more understandable. Also, the way that nuclear weapons were deployed post-war becomes more obvious.
@@AbelMcTalisker I think you know what I mean. Go further than this crap, it's Fing Disney. As usual with them in those days and for a while after, it's not really historical, complete, or substantial. It's a comic book version for kids and unwitting adults who don't know any better. More shame on Disney.
BTW, the "strategies" shown here are erroneous and largely fictional.
@@Glicksman1 This was a video recommended by our professor at Imperial College as an introduction to the course.
The end animation of those massive planes taking off was seriously good
I was constantly checking wikipedia while watching this to keep a context of what had and hadn't happened yet. For example, The Manhattan Project wouldn't begin until a month after the primier of this film, but he was basically predicting how a weapon like that would be the thing to end the war with Japan.
This film is actually in color, and it says "Technicolor" in the opening credits.
Here is a version in color (starts after 22 minutes of text crawl ranting about Seversky).
czcams.com/video/MwK9jWbkBxQ/video.html
@@tz8785 thank you
Film also pre-dates the advent of long range fighters and experience from actual daylight bomber offensive in Europe so the concept of the heavy bomber as a "flying battleship" was not yet obsolete.
You are correct. The B-17 "Flying Fortress" was tragically misnamed and was, in reality, anything but. The USAAF's foolish and erroneous belief in this unfortunate name caused thousands of unnecessary deaths of B-17 aircrews. Daylight, unescorted, medium-altitude bombing missions are tantamount to suicide for too many who participate. When the enemy's fighter/interceptors can reach 40,000', you cannot escape them.
However, the USAAF had prior knowledge of the British experience during the BOB and thereafter when the Luftwaffe ceased sending bombers in during daylight because their losses had been so great.
@pigineering - "...not yet _recognized by USAAF as_ obsolete" is more precisely true. It has been conclusively demonstrated that the P-47 equipped with drop tanks could easily provide long range fighter escort *_all the way to German targets and back_* as early as 1943. But the 8th Air Force was so pigheaded about "the bomber will always get through" that they actually issued an order *_forbidding_* the use of P-47 drop tanks. Criminal stupidity.
A force in the air?
What should we call it?
AIR FORCE *eagle call*
Great animation. This is a masterpiece of illustration and animation. The octopus thing at the end just blew me away. Propaganda at its finest and done well. The artists behind this project were obviously top notch. What a gem thanks for posting this.
Great animation, but that is all. History? Not so great. I remember seeing this on Disney's T.V. show, and as a kid, it was charming and I was fascinated. However, as I learned the true history of aviation, it got less and less charming until it became a misleading joke, but not really funny.
@@Glicksman1 Bro settle down. You're replying to damn near every comment. Like, duh, we know. it's an 80 year old propaganda piece. You aren't a wise bearer of forbidden truth
@@naverilllang If I were any more "settled down" I'd be asleep.
Not for nothing, when you tell someone to "settle down", or to "relax, " or to "calm down", etc., it usually makes them quite irate, just the opposite of what you purportedly intended. I mean, most people would wonder: Who are you to tell someone else how to feel and what to do, eh? So, my advice to you about this is, "chill".
P.S. So sorry that my expressing myself freely and clearly upsets you. Don't let it worry you too much, though, I always expect and make due allowance for would-be speech-restricting idiots like you, Bro.
But seriously though, this is pretty fascinating.
Agreed
It's fascinatingly presented, like all of Disney's things, but it's woefully inaccurate and misleading, nevertheless. The truth is equally fascinating and is worth infinitely more.
@@Glicksman1 I suppose one of these days I'll have to set aside some time to watch a real history of the air war and general aviation. 👀
I just read another couple comment of yours about how dangerous serving in bombers was, and how using the "Flying Fortress" with the mindset of it being a litteral Flying Fortress was like suicidal, and it got me thinking... 🤔
@@ericremotesteam Yes. Those bomber crews had one of the toughest jobs of the war along with hitting those Pacific island beaches, fighting a fanatic, determined dug-in enemy in 100+ degree heat and 100% humidity, malaria, dysentery, poisonous snakes and huge aggressive insects. Not exactly John Wayne was it.
@@Glicksman1 thats why this is called a propaganda film
This film is among such films as: "Dumbo", "Fantasia", "Bambi", "Pinocchio" and "Snow White" Note the opening credits, they are similar to the credits of the previous full-length films.
My great uncle x 2 was the art director of animation for this film. He also worked on Dumbo and Fantasia. Elmer G. Plummer…
If you really think about Victory Through Air Power in a real-world timeline, it comes after Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, Sword in the Stone and The Jungle Book.
The fact that this movie was made is nothing short of miraculous. The war-time shortages were the least of the studio's problems. Thank you for posting this, it's wonderful.
Pretty sure the government provided Disney with some funding. Even with that though, yeah things were tight!
Thanks! I've wanted to see this for a long time. De Seversky, like most futurists, got some things right and others not quite. He envisioned something like the B-36 for the Pacific, thinking that what Mountbatten, Nimitz, and McArthur got done would be impossible. The B-29 was completely sufficient for strategic air power; other land AND sea-based aviation was useful strategically and tactically, along with common Marines, soldiers, and sailors. And the blessing of God.
All those bloody Pacific island battles might have been unnecessary if long-range bombers had come online sooner. As it was Tinian, B-29s and the A-bomb fell into place just before a land invasion of mainland Japan became necessary. And thank God that it did. The casualties would have been many times greater than those in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined-ours and theirs-had it not.
@@dennisfmckenna Well, those landings might have been less bloody but still, nothing is a substitute for lots of boots on the ground.
This is a typically Disneyized version of "history" that is incomplete, inaccurate, and biased beyond description. It's part right, which makes it dangerous as a lesson for children. I saw it when I was a kid and believed every word as children do and as it was intended. I learned better as time went on and realised that it was a terrible source of misinformation.
What you wrote is all good until the last pathetic sentence. If what you think of as "god" was involved, why the war in the first place? Why all those casualties both civilian and military? Why the Nazis and the brutally cruel Imperial Japanese? Why the dead children, elderly and unarmed women and men? Why the holocaust? Why atomic weapons? Why a thousand things? If the god you imagine is both all-good and all-powerful, then WTF?
You think there is a god? Prove it or shut up. History says otherwise.
@@Glicksman1 Contrary to popular belief, God doesn’t “run” everything. Humans are given free will and in exchange receive a final judgement on how they use it. The true Disneyized version of life is that where people believe that God is a big “sugar daddy”. They are also the ones who look to government to take care of them. Sound familiar?
@@dennisfmckenna Every individual has their own personal idea of what "god" is to them. If rabbits could think and Believe in a god, that god would look like a rabbit. You have yours and maybe hang with others who agree. Others hang with people who Believe otherwise. It's all superstition, delusion, and nonsense, anyway.
Free will. Why? Because we have no choice but to have it.
Thank you Perun. Nice recommendation for a watchalong with my nephew.
In which video did he recommend this?
@@burt2800 " Cruise & ballistic missiles in Ukraine - effectiveness, lessons (and are the Russians running out?) " timestamp 3:30
@@MaeLSTRoM1997 Thank you so much!
Salute to Disney, who financed this film himself, and certainly his imagineers who with him created this fantastically communicative informative film.
Not so informative, more like misleading and inaccurate in many places.
@@Glicksman1 Misleading ?
@@akiakos Yes.
@@Glicksman1 how tho that is my question
@@akiakos Well, you didn't ask that. You only typed the word, "Misleading"?" You got your answer.
If your question is "How is it misleading?" I'll tell you.
Starting with the "History" of Aviation, the story about the Wright Brothers flight did not mention any of the people that came before them who they respected and learned from. Also, no mention of the thousands of man-carrying glider flights at Kill Devil Hill was mentioned.
Their later successful flights were at Huffman Prairie near Dayton, Ohio, and were made in a re-designed aircraft. Not mentioned.
The early European airplanes are shown flying higher and with more elan than any of them could muster, and doing this all together. Nice typical Disney children's animation, but not at all representing any kind of reality.
The bit about Ely taking off and later landing on an "aircraft carrier" did not mention that he flew a Curtiss pusher. Little mention of Glen Curtiss and his inestimable advances and contributions to aviation is made. Only that his more powerful engine enabled seaplanes to fly.
"Power diving at 620mph." In the1930's? It was not until the 1940s in two instances not universally accepted (Nazi rocket-powered flights over short distances), and then after WWII that speeds over 600mph were attained.
That vaunted dinosaur, the French "Maginot Line" was, indeed invulnerable to aerial attack, but was not, as stated by Seversky, defeated by Nazi aircraft. The Nazis simply sent their army around it to the north through Belgium, Holland, and the French Ardennes forest.
The Norway debacle was caused by a combination of myopic British strategy, hubris, the inferior but better deployed Nazi Kriegsmarine, and Nazi airpower, not solely by Nazi airpower.
The Nazi occupation of Norway was largely an unsuccessful venture in many ways and was ultimately not worth what was gotten from it. The Nazis were not able to freely move iron ore-laden ships from Narvik to northern Germany without a good deal of losses inflicted upon them by the Royal Navy and operations by the valiant Norwegian Milorg. The Luftwaffe was ineffective there unlike the misleading narrative in this film.
The Dunkirk miracle evacuation was greatly aided by the RAF which shot down more Luftwaffe aircraft than it lost, but it was not in any way an aerial umbrella, "a screen of wings from shore to shore" as inaccurately overstated in the animations and narrative in this film. The RAF was strained to its limits and, it is now calculated, lost 177 aircraft, the Luftwaffe lost 240 aircraft.
To greatly overstate is to mislead.
The Battle of Britain has been a controversial subject since it happened.
Yes, the Nazis never did invade England across the Channel, but then, it really wasn't a practical or possible idea, to begin with. The RAF was marginally victorious, but in no way did the Luftwaffe "prove no match for the Royal Air Force". What mostly defeated the Luftwaffe was having to fly across a wide body of treacherous water to and from the battle every day and engage in combat over enemy territory. Also, the Luftwaffe's single-engine fighters (Bf-109Es) had, like Spitfires and Hurricanes, limited fuel capacity giving them limited range and could only stay over southern England at combat engine settings for a short time before having to return home.
Many of them were shot down over the Channel or crashed into it desperately trying to get home before they ran out of fuel. They were forced to use lower engine settings to conserve fuel and were easily caught by the re-fueled Spits and Hurris. None of this is discussed and its omission is misleading.
The RAF was not" outnumbered three to one" in the BOB unless you count the Nazi's bombers which were little to no threat to the RAF's fighters. The RAF had a little over 700 fighters and the Luftwaffe had 1,089 fighters in the fight, including the ineffectual Bf-110C twin-engine fighters which were slaughtered wholesale and withdrawn from combat. Hardly three to one.
The number of Luftwaffe airplanes in the BOB that had "only one gun" was zero. The Ju- 87 Stuka dive-bomber was used initially and for a very short time. It was not a fighter and had it had one rear machine gun and two forward. No match for RAF fighters, they too, were slaughtered wholesale. The Bf-109E had two machine guns in the nose and one 20mm (equivalent) cannon in each wing. It was a capable and deadly opponent.
Veteran pilots have considered the BF-109E to be the equal of the Spitfire and Hurricane in most respects. None of this is discussed.
I could go on, but mercifully, I will not. You get the idea. This film is just juvenile propaganda, disregarding truth and accuracy. Misleading? Yes, on all counts, guilty.
Great summary on the importance of supply and logistics.
Thanks for uploading this. Very interesting to watch. While as previously commented some of the concepts were "off" from reality, this was a 1942 film. The aircraft drawn from what were probably prototypes or concepts from the period do resemble real aircraft that were used operationally later on.
The Navy must have hated this movie.
I’m glad you’ve posted this. I checked to see if it was on Disney+ or any other streaming service and it wasn’t. Missed opportunity for them. This is a great film. Thanks!
It may be a great film, but it's piss-poor history.
@@Glicksman1 in what sense?
@@jcurbin305 Without going into details, it's piss-poor history because it says an shows things that either didn't happen or happened very differently from what was said. It also ignores a lot of important things that did happen. Inaccuracies, incorrect and misleading narrative abounds throughout.
Sure, some of the graphics are great, it was made by Disney after all, and they could make a mouse and a duck dance and sing. But just "looking good" doesn't make it good or even competent history.
It was feel-good propaganda and nothing more, and that, at least for me, is not history. It's piss-poor history.
@Glicksman1 I think you’re looking at it from the wrong perspective. It’s a firsthand historical document proposing a theoretical method of waging war that was very unconventional for its time. That alone makes it valuable. I’m not watching it to understand how strategic bombing actually worked in practice or for any recounting of events. Anyone with a basic understanding of those subjects will know this film isn’t for that.
@@Trashcansam123Aren't you the cool, calm collected one. No, it's not me who sees it from the "wrong perspective". Look, the Constitution of the United States entitles you to Believe that that Disney lie and POS is whatever you wish it to be.
The people that VTAP was intended for when it was released had little to no "basic understanding of those subjects". They had little to no education or knowledge of aviation or of its history except what they saw in the newsreels between films, an that was also mostly horse shite. It was "feelgood" catnip for children, and childish adults of all ages.
Please understand, some of the humor in it is very good as I would expect to see in a Disney cartoon. Just don't' foist it off as the Truth, or try to exculpate and justify it a somethin "valuable". Even excrement is valuable for certain purposes, but it still stinks.
Disney's film of VTAP is not a first-hand historical document of any kind, and to attempt to elevate it to such is more revelatory of you than it.
Yes, VTAP is quite "valuable", as a prime example of mindless propaganda intended to mislead and stir up a willingly credible, ignorant child-like public.
The thing is, and what makes me and others so irate about it is that, as usual, the Truth is just as if not more stirring, interesting, far more informative, and does not require exaggeration, mendacity and vain-glory.
Oh, and I didn't; fail to notice your not so subtle snide cut at me FWIW, I have at least a basic understanding of this subject having read, studied lectured, and written about it extensively. However, I stopped participating in pissing contests in the third grade.
Outstanding.... Not your usual Disney movie.
One the main reasons our country has a Strategic Air Command,; Mr. Adam Seversky,, a RUSSIAN immigrant. The irony.
Funny how they don't mention that it was the Germans who developed the synchronizing gear for the machine guns.
This movie was made only 23 years or so after WWI. Look at the progress. 23 years ago we were flying the same aircraft we are flying today, doing the same things. Progress has really slowed down.
Well duh, we went through 2 world wars that shaped the very use and purpose of planes. We don't need to develop brand new planes for unique uses anymore, because we have planes that are really good for what they do. Commercial travel. And yet still, you're wrong, because planes in the 90's may look similar, but we have way more efficient and comfortable flights using the huge influx of digital and computer technology.
What about stealth expanded to include heavy bombers, air superiority fighters and general purpose multi role planes?
The Germans didn’t break through the Maginot line they went around it
And more importantly, the Maginot line was supposed to be continued by the canalside fortresses of Belgium,. It was pure politics that sunk that plan.
Granted, the Ardennes turned out less impenetrable than expected, but that was an honest miscalculation and still would have been a breach they could try to plug if the entire northern defense hadn't been overrun before it got started.
They broke the Maginot line in the computer programer sense, they made it completely useless.
That’s why they invaded Belgium and Netherlands
@@littlebig1818 technically they broke through a weak point in the line through the Ardennes forest
The Maginot plan was supposed to have a large mobile Armored reserve to counter attack the german's where ever they tried to punch through. That was force was never built out.
"The bomber will always get through". Boy, where they wrong!
ICBMs are basicaly bombers
This was not the cancelled air power video I was looking for
This movie qualifies de Seversky as a Disney Prince, right?
Yes! It also qualifies Billy Mitchell as Disney's earliest feature film performer, by way of archive footage.
@@DellDuckfan313 Oh my gosh I love that fact so much.
@@meherbs36 If we count Victory as one of the studio's animated features, that is. I'm sure earlier footage has been used in some of the documenatries, or one of the hundreds of movies they've distributed. But this snippet was photographed before the entirety of Snow White.
CLASSIC! A color print must exist.Library of Congress,Disney Studio vault, Army Pictorial Center,somebody's garage! AFI should save this one for the annimation alone.US gov't may have paid for this one Studio was making training films at the time.This print maybe an old TV version.
Found the color version of this years ago. First time seeing it since then. Every rewatch makes me realize how the points made by Mr. Seversky came true.
really felt like they were foreshadowing the atomic bomb near the end there.
What's wild is that the Manhattan Project wouldn't commense until a month after this film premiered.
Or he was just saying "We need to drop some big bombs right here to win the war,"
I’m here because Disney used to make actual documentaries
Is this a documentary? Lol
Surprisingly enough I'm here cause a Disney history film called "Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow: the futurism of Walt Disney"
Now we need a color version!
Use your imagination
Google it. I watched in color on my roku. You should be able to find it.
Very very nice. It shows footage I,ve never seen and never heard of, Great documentary, thanks for sharing
Not.
Thank you grown up kids podcast for directing me to this great film. So interesting
People here from film theory, I'm here because of Perun.
Also this is unironically my favorite Disney movie now
There is a Technicolor version of this keep searching.
www.dailymotion.com/video/x6kg32j
@@ScienceDiscoverer OH MY GOODNESS THANK YOU
Lol wish I had seen this before I finished the black and white version
It’s unfortunate that this is a black-and-white print. I have seen the technicolor version , and it’s magnificent.
Unfortunately, nobody in my family 👪 cares. So I retired from the best 26 years of my life in the U.S NAVY
Man, I want a Disney atraction with this theme
Disney: “we will take Japan by 1948”
Little boy and fat man: “ allow us to introduce ourselves”
Time for a german Joke: "Auf eine 'strahlende' Zukunft - und daß wir alle 'kerngesund' bleiben."
*The nostalgia intensifies*
Yes I came from Film Theory
Just remembering: today, July 20 is the birthday of Alberto Santos Dumont, who created a lot of solutions about to do a plane that takes off by proper ways, without the use of catapult - and never patented none of these inventions, just sent them to all who wants to reproduce your invents a lot of plants -, God saves his memory and glory of the Right Flyer !!!
Dry, but very informative at the time. Back when Walt Disney's empire was still thinking of the USA
Only the USA
2/3 of the way through, incredibly interesting watch so far.
Wonder if he knew about Barnes Wallis and his work on earthquake bombs and 'interest' in destroying dams.
38:01 " The Arsenal of Democracy" That's wild.
The theory of defeating Japan here with long range bombers from Alaska was proven wrong as it was the carriers and amphibious warefare in the island hopping strategy of the US Navy that eventually brought land based bombers to Saipan and Tinian where they could reach Japan. And even then it took the nuclear bombs to force Japan to surrender without an amphibious landing on Japan itself. It was also proven in the war against Germany that strategic bombing could not bring the war to a close and it was necessary to use the ground forces landing at Normandy and the Russian army too fight on the ground into the heart of Germany. And it is shown today that it still comes down to the infantry fighting on the ground to defeat the enemy. There is a need for all the elements of warfare, naval, air and ground forces in combined arms to win each type of battle and in doing so win a war. The argument here at that time was the argument that Hap Arnold and Bomber Harris carried, that air power was all that was needed to defeat Germany and the same one Lemay had envisioned would defeat Japan. It was incorrect.
Thank you Alexander seversky , a tru visionary!!!
Who?
11:01 Best part!!!
Film Theory ;)?
Totally. It is surprisingly interesting
*Yah yeet*
Thank you for showing this. All the other ones I saw, had annoying channel creator commentary.
This film would be excellent in color.
The film foresaw the B36, and the Dam busters raid.
Actually I'm here because I'm listening to the Walt Disney biography on Audible.
I miss when Disney was Disney
Barnes Wallis, the British Scientist, developed not only the Bouncing Bomb that was used by the DamBusters, but two, as he describes them, DP (Deep Penetration) /Earthquake Bombs. the 12,000 pound Tall Boys were used to sink the Bismark's sister ship the Tripitz, and they along with the 22,000 pound Grand Slam, were used against the V-3 and V-4 sites preventing the damage they would have caused in the London Area and any build up of the D-Day forces needed for the Normandy Invasion....
The most threatening Disney villains in no particular order:
1. cruella deville
2. Captain Hook
3. maleficent
4. scar
5. *the fucking axis powers*
For 3500 years man has dreamed of air flight? No Sumerian looked at the birds and thought “I wish I could fly.”
Few people alive today know how important this film was in the war effort. Without the changes in strategy, the film encouraged the war would have lasted much longer. Few know the part that General Billy Mitchel played in helping the US victory.
There is absolutely no evidence that this or any other film significantly influenced strategy by the Allies in WWII.
@@Glicksman1That's because it was Top Secret, Wait Disney only made this film after reading the book and being convinced of its merit. It was NOT made for public release. It was played for Winston Churchill, who at the summit with Roosevelt asked him "You've seen Victory thru Air Power?" When Answered "No" a named pilot was sent for a copy to be played, who then played it for many generals. The bunker busting bomb developed to kill the U-Boats in their pens WAS CALLED THE FUCKING 'DISNEY BOMB' YOU IDIOT....
6:29-6:42 hey look "RICH FILIPINO BRING NATIVES HERE"
I saw that too I was like Wtf ??
thanks to Perun for heading me here!
Missed talking over Santos Dumont, who is an icon of the Brazilian Aviation and has much more story to tell, but are to be congratulated
This was in Technicolor according to the opening credits. I have seen the color version with Leonard Maltin into... and it's available here on CZcams.
Very interesting to watch the ideas for winning the war, through what they could see in 1942, when Allies were still in deep troubles.
Some of those ideas perfectly viable, some others rather naive.
Really good assesment of situation, one of the best Disney movies for me.
Today no one knows Seversky anymore - doomed by his own hybris...
But that's just a theory. A Film Theory. Thanks for watching.
Your welcome
Wow, this is terrific!
Thank you for sharing it.
I know this is very old. But they forgot to mention the Snyder Cup, air races. Which spawned the creation of the Supermarine Spitfire.
Arsenal bird isn't a new concept I guess.
✈They make it look so glamorous✈👀
Interesting how it ends with a facsimile of the RKO Pictures Eagle. RKO was Disney’s distributor at the time but they declined to market this film and he did it through United Artists instead
FOR ANYONE WONDERING, THE DISNEY BOMB IS AT 57:30 OR NEAR THERE, YOU ARE WELCOME ;)
Sorry, what was that again? (Turn on English subtitles at 0:15:12 )
Yeah my Social Studies Dept Head stole my DVD of this, glad its on CZcams. Thanks!
Its fun to see the Wright Flyer do set those pioneering records, did not know
This film inspired weapon design. The Disney Bomb.
Inspired by Operation UPKEEP - at 56:22, "Disney" Bomb at 57:18 Tallboy & Grand Slam (minus the rockets) - at 58:04
All 4 were BRITISH designs. 3 of these were designed by the same man - Barnes Wallis. (Upkeep, Tallboy & Grand Slam) The 4th (Disney Bomb) by Capt Edward Terrell, RN
MatPat Anywhone?
Yep
SebastienDark ew
The B 36, six engines, incredibly long range, was deployed after we won WW2. But Alaska has unforgiving weather and perhaps difficult terrain in the Aleutians.
Six PISTON engines with a total of 336 spark plugs, that needed frequent replacement after fouling with tetraethyl lead from 135-octane aviation gas. Then the builder added 4 jet engines. Avionics had over 365 vacuum tubes, with the reliability we all so fondly remember.
@@stephenarling1667 Valves are best used in guitar amplifiers.
@@Glicksman1
And the proximity fuzes used in WW2.
@@stephenarling1667 You don't like guitar amplifiers, then? :D
Theirs no way you can dive at 600mph with a 1930s plane with a straight wing design
I knew watching all the Disney films in chronological order would have dated moments, but holy moly I didn’t think it’d lead me to blatant propaganda from during the WW2 era. That’s so interesting, I look foreword to seeing how the vibes of these movies change from era to era.
Why 8n the he'll wouldn't film companies NOT produce propaganda, especially during wartime ?
You think Disney isn't producing propaganda today ? Why do you think Disney pushing Leftist ideology is, lol.
this would have been better had it been in colour like in the original theater showing
1800 german planes were lost in the BoB. They started the battle with 2400 aircraft.
Man I already knew the AF was bomber crazy at the time but it’s just insane to actually hear them say it and not know just how much stuff they were wrong about.
I've seen this a bunch of times but never in such low res . Is there a better copy somewhere?
Faltou falar mais de Santos Dummont, que é um Ícone da Aviação Brasileira e tem muito mais história pra contar, mas estão de parabéns.
Pretty sure they did mention him
Why is this not in color? it was released in color.
自分用
1:04:56 タコとして表現される日本と、ハクトウワシとして表現されるアメリカ
派手な空爆シーンは絶対ヘンリー・アーノルドとカーチス・ルメイが一枚噛んでるなぁと思える作品。
*but that's just a theory. A FIIIIIILM THEORYYYYY!*
Is this in a film theory episode?
@@Brave_Sir_RobinMatPat made two theories counting all deaths in Disney movies
É um documentário americano,é logico q iriam priorizar os wright,mas Santos Dumont é o maior ícone da historia da Aviação!.
Santo Dumont did nothing at all to advance aeronautical science. He's a tiny footnote in aviation history and might as well be forgotten..
Todo mundo sabe que Santos Dumunt foi o grande inventor do avião,e com provas concretas.
Very nice to see the
14-bis as the picture of this video :-)
Why aren't we able to see the film in color?
How proud does a girl from Crete feel after watching this movie. 🙏🙃
@perun sent me here
I'm actually here because my friend told me I'm not a true Disney fan unless I watch this movie. So here I am
Fun fact; to make a shot in this movie they blew up a real bomb, Who was Niknamed “Disney Bomb
Il ne faut pas oublier le General Douhet .
Who else here from film theory
Me
I am from flim theory
Yeeeeeeeeep