On 4/14/2022 7:24 AM, A Friend wrote:
> In article <t38vli$n2v$7@dont-email.me>, Ubiquitous
> <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>
>> In article <130420221410189421%nope@noway.com>, nope@noway.com wrote:
>>> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> TCM
>>>> Thursday, April 14, 2022
>>>>
>>>> midnight EDT As the Earth Turns (no year given, probably a two-reeler)
>>>
>>> This is supposedly a film shot in 1937 about a future, planet-busting
>>> war. There are very minor technical glitches here and there that show
>>> it's a modern film. Sources say it was actually made in 2019, the year
>>> it was released.
>>
>> So it's not a soap opera?
>
>
> It might be. Planet-busting wars can lead to problems with your
> significant other. (Yeah, my mom used to watch As the World Turns.)
>
> BTW this all reminds me of a film called IIRC "Why Men Fight." It was
> made in the 1930s and also foretold a second world war, but this one
> was triggered by an aerial attack on New York. I don't know how the
> hell you got heavy bombers from Europe to New York without stopping,
> but they managed it. I also don't know why New York would be their
> first target, especially when the Brooklyn Navy Yard was just across
> the river.

Bomb sights were not very accurate at the time. The American Norden
bomb sight was a huge leap forward in accuracy and the USAAF using it
was _still_ carpet bombing cities to take out factories.

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