Victory Through Air Power (1943, USA) – Not propaganda as such, but an argument made by Disney and an ex-Russian pilot, aimed in part at the Allied governments, about how air power should be used to win the war. It’s informative, awe-inducing, and quirky in that Disney way. Opens with a history of flight, and ends with scenes of the fiery hell Allied bombers will rain on Japan’s industrial areas once they learn how to overcome the great distances. Can you believe the magnificent arrogance of Walt Disney, to use his own army of animators to convince Roosevelt of some idea he’s just picked up from a book? Unbelievable. Fantastic. Watched it all.

The White Cliffs of Dover (1944, USA) – An American nurse waits for casualties to arrive from the front, and goes into flashback mode to tell us why she loves America’s dear cousins, the English. Watched: 13 minutes.

The Lodger (1944, USA) – I don’t see how Jack the Ripper could have escaped the police all that time if he’d seemed so shifty and shadowy as this lodger does. Watched: 12 minutes.

Double Exposure (1944, USA) – A magazine where photographers fake their pictures and the owner is a health freak hires a Woman Photographer, causing shock and confusion. I’m not sure what to make of the intro text: “New York – Where half the girls are working girls .. and the other half are working men.” What? Watched: 13 minutes.