Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous

[Smokey Stover]

Source: Filmspectre

 

[Wurger]

 

[Smokey Stover]

P-38F-1-LO Lightning Glacier Girl 94th FS/14th FG in 2004. This aircraft was abandoned during operation Bolero in 1942 on a glacier in Greenland, and recovered in 1992 following an excavation from a depth of 270 ft of ice (U.S. Air Force image by TSgt Ben Bloker).

 

[Smokey Stover]

Target aviation photography

 

[Shinpachi]

Charcoal gas vehicles in the 1940s.

Source:
木炭自動車 - Wikipedia
thd320-Charcoal Car 木炭自動車 東京 昭和20年10月
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/79/53/b7/7953b75d18569c7c08e2d3213b68fca5.jpg

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots guys!

 

[Shinpachi]

The pine oil as aviation fuel of octane 89.
About 200,000 kilo-litters (1,253,133 US-barrels ?) "crude" pine oil was saved for the coming homeland battle in Japan. This was also used for the test flight of jet plane Kikka. Stock oil was consumed by the fishing boat diesel engines in the postwar.

National production campaign posters

A scene of distillation

Report: Kikka was flown by pine oil

Source:
松根油
貴重品の「松根油増産」ポスター
資料館 | 人吉球磨は秘密基地
2015-11-14: ブログ 風の松原を歩く

 

[Wurger]

 

[Smokey Stover]

Source: Werkto

 

[Shinpachi]

"The 3 Radio Women in the Northern Islands"

The last Japanese movie during the war.
Introduced in August 1945.

Source:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-09loswQrYQ&t=40s

Source: 北の三人
北の三人 - Wikipedia

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

"Soyokaze (Gentle breeze)"

The first Japanese movie in the postwar.
Introduced in October 1945.

A story of a girl whose dream came true as a singer.
Criticized as a shit movie by media like Asahi Shinbun but its theme song became popular as "Ringo no uta (Song for Apples)".

A GI sings "Song for Apples".

 

[fubar57]

Good stuff Shinpachi

 

[at6]

It would have been better if that beauty in the picture had sung it.

 

[Shinpachi]

A big misunderstanding about postwar Japan would be like "Japan was modernized or changed or democratized".
In my opinion, Japan simply restarted from the condition of the 1930s in the postwar.
This would be why Asahi Shinbun called it "a shit movie".

"Woman in Tokyo (1939)" for comparison.

 

[Shinpachi]

It would have been better if that beauty in the picture had sung it.

Here is a clip.
Thanks

 

[Wurger]

 

[at6]

A big misunderstanding about postwar Japan would be like "Japan was modernized or changed or democratized".
In my opinion, Japan simply restarted from the condition of the 1930s in the postwar.
This would be why Asahi Shinbun called it "a shit movie".

"Woman in Tokyo (1939)" for comparison.

Could really be due to the reviewers having sh!t for brains?

 

[Shinpachi]

Could really be due to the reviewers having sh!t for brains?

It was a matter of artistic level because of the historical back ground in 1945.
The movie was originally planned to encourage Japanese people to unite before the war was over.
The allied forces ordered to refrain any militaristic factors from the movie as well as seasoned actors/actresses and producers.
It also failed to be a decent musical film as the actress/singer Michiko Namiki was yet clumsy to be a heroine though she was not necessarily too young.

Only the song remained.

 

[Shinpachi]

If interested -

Hachi no su no kodomotachi (蜂の巣の子供たち = Kids of Honeycomb)
Documentary-style movie of a demobilized soldier and homeless kids to ID any of them.
Released in 1948.