Safeguarding Military Information (1941)
1941 · Ephemeral film · 10 min · dir. Preston Sturges
- Documentary
- Short
Synopsis
Documentary short depicting the dangers of inadvertent dispersal of secret military information, showing the unintended and disastrous results of careless conversation and improper maintenance of secret records.
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Preston Sturges
- Running time
- 10 minutes
- Internet Archive item
- 0505_Safeguarding_Military_Information_10_01_02_05
Cast & crew
Preston Sturges Director
Eddie Bracken
Tom Fadden
Ian Hunter
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · : Pay no attention to the microphone ornament on my jacket.. · Spuzz · 2016-05-04
In this amazing artificact from the "Loose lips sink ships" era of War paranoia (or in this case, 'Thoughtlessness breeds sabotage!' (was Loose Lips Sink Ships" trademarked?) we see a collection of clips of how soldiers casually announce where they're going and what war equipment they're taking with them. In the first incident, the fellow blabs to his goyl on the phone, not noticing (or the bartender) the guy with the rather large mike on his jacket or the headphone in the ear. The guy then relates the message in some woefully obvious code language to the enemy. Relatives are not in the clear…
