Victory Through Air Power

Seventy years have been enough to turn propaganda, which at the time must have been as encouraging as it should have been, into an almost perfectly chilling and repellent anti-war film. At least that’s the feeling I get from it. Although the authors (with Alexander de Seversky in the lead) were wrong about the year of Japan's defeat (they estimated 1948), the other visions were closer to the truth. Including that, at first sight, perhaps too futuristic earthquake-inducing bomb - the Americans and New Zealanders in 1945 actually tested, for example, tsunami bombs. As far as workmanship goes, Victory Through Air Power is without fault. The playful and cheerful animation showing the development of aviation is perfect, and when it is replaced by a slightly different, darker and more dramatic one with the onset of World War II (the scene with the submarines, oh my!), the aforementioned chills come and it's pretty dense. I know that Hitler's favorite was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but if he had watched this Disney movie, he might have learned a lot. Or he could have shot himself two years earlier.__P.S. Considering the time of the film's creation and the tense situation in general, I don't blame the film for factual errors, but I can't overlook them and I deduct one star for them. Just to be clear. (01/17/2014)