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This is an excellent example of air futurism. The airship was the "weapon of mass destruction" of the pre-World War I era, and there was a rich body of airship scare literature. This film actually fairly accurately predicts its failure as a bomber. It proved very vulnerable to airplanes, and disappeared as a strategic bomber by the mid-war period. The film is also interesting in depicting robotic aircraft used for airship defense--which, of course, prefigures the development of the surface-to-air missile at mid-century.
Posted by: Dr Richard P. Hallion | 23 February 2009 at 01:05
all those years devoted to promotion of a war machine and incidentally, the mail. the passenger airplane had to await the invention of the middle class after wwii.
Posted by: dwpbike | 06 June 2009 at 20:19
También me parece interesante la curiosidad del argumento amoroso que corre en paralelo a la historia de guerra: una bomba ayuda al protagonista a conseguir a la chica, matando "casualmente" al marido o padre de su amada.
Posted by: Daniel Tubau | 21 October 2009 at 00:13
See, it may be one of the great-great-granddaddies of the sci-fi genre, and not stack up to anything produced during or after WW II, but this video still has a way of grabbing you...
That, and it would make a great metal-video :p
Posted by: Biggest_Baddest_Wolf | 02 November 2009 at 19:54
It's wonderful
Posted by: dannysoar | 17 December 2009 at 00:16
THE GERMANS ARE COMING! THE GERMANS ARE COMING! WAS THIS A FICTIONAL SHORT, OR A PROPHETIC VIEW OF THINGS TO COME? 3 STARS FROM ME!
Posted by: RICARDO SANTINI | 28 March 2010 at 05:59
The film may have been inspired by the H.G.Wells novel "The War in the Air", which came out in 1908 and described Zeppelin attacks against New York.
Posted by: Ralf Buelow | 23 September 2010 at 09:06
Thank you for your positive comments!
Muchas gracias a todos!
Posted by: EFT Team | 23 September 2010 at 19:10
Только тут мрамор Киев по приемлемой цене
Posted by: VADIM26Krjukov | 16 December 2010 at 19:29
Good staging and technical mating of live action, miniatures, explosions, and mechanical special effects. Very inspiring for developing film makers, showing such scope. I wish Roger Corman's scripts were so logical!
Posted by: Hawkster74 | 21 February 2011 at 16:46
Wow...! Certainly not as crude as the great A TRIP TO THE MOON of a mere 5 years prior. The exterior scenes are the best.
Decades later, sam peckinpah, in 1969, made THE WILD BUNCH, set in 1913---with its cowboys acting as though movies, airplanes, and cars hadn't been invented yet!
Posted by: SAKARA | 05 March 2011 at 19:21