From what I've read, this film was made largely by splicing stock footage together with footage shot 20 years later. It's not particularly noteworthy or well-made by any stretch of the imagination, but it's surprisingly effective for being this poorly produced.
Much of the film's ample stock footage time is narrated rather poorly by a man who spends most of the movie off camera (his scenes were apparently shot years after the original footage). Some of the stock footage is used multiple times, in completely different scenarios. Moreover, the non-stock footage tends to be relatively bland. Still, the movie fits together surprisingly well and is reasonably entertaining, and this is quite an accomplishment. I give it 4-to-5 stars because I'm impressed at what the crew could do with such a terrible and corny idea.
It's no masterpiece, but the movie is entertaining in a campy-'40s-newsreel kind of way.
Much of the film's ample stock footage time is narrated rather poorly by a man who spends most of the movie off camera (his scenes were apparently shot years after the original footage). Some of the stock footage is used multiple times, in completely different scenarios. Moreover, the non-stock footage tends to be relatively bland. Still, the movie fits together surprisingly well and is reasonably entertaining, and this is quite an accomplishment. I give it 4-to-5 stars because I'm impressed at what the crew could do with such a terrible and corny idea.
It's no masterpiece, but the movie is entertaining in a campy-'40s-newsreel kind of way.