Query: Documentary films about science that are also 1940s documentary films excluding Black-and-white documentary films
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
World of Plenty
The Saga of the Franklin
Target for Tonight
The Atom Strikes!
Kukan
Victory Through Air Power (film)
Evidence from documents: World of Plenty: a 1943 British documentary film directed by Paul Rotha for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. It discusses problems with, and possible improvements to, global food distribution.
An opening narration explaining that the film's purpose is to examine the "world strategy of food", in terms of its production, distribution and consumption.
The Saga of the Franklin: '''''The Saga of the Franklin''''' (1945) is a 16-mm Kodachrome color documentary film produced about the aircraft carrier USS ''Franklin'', nicknamed "Big Ben", one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II. The aircraft carrier was hit by a Japanese dive bomber on March 19, 1945. The ''USS Franklin'' was the most heavily damaged carrier in World War II to survive an attack.
The film traces the operational history of the ''USS Franklin'' before focusing on her final mission in 1945. After repair and refitting at Naval Air Station Alameda, California, after an earlier Kamikaze attack, she set out to sea and combat in the South China Sea near Honshu. On March 19, 1945, a single Yokosuka D4Y "Judy" dive bomber or Aichi D3A "Val" bombed the carrier. Some of the most harrowing footage in the film shows the aftermath of the Japanese bombing, when ammunition dumps aboard the carrier caught fire and began to explode.
Target for Tonight: '''''Target for Tonight''''' (or ''Target for To-Night'') is a 1941 British World War II documentary film billed as filmed and acted by the Royal Air Force, all during wartime operations.
The Atom Strikes!: Documentary films: '''''The Atom Strikes''''' is a document commissioned by the U.S. Army Signal Corps Pictoral Division shortly after the end of the Second World War.
1940s: Opening with the blast of the experimental bombing in Los Alamos, New Mexico in July 1945, the film turns to the ''Enola Gay'' and its mission over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Kukan: '''''Kukan''''' (originally subtitled '''''The Secret of Unconquerable China''''') is a 1941 American documentary film co-produced by Li Ling-Ai and Rey Scott, and directed by Scott about the Chinese resistance to Japanese aggression during the early part of World War II (see Second Sino-Japanese War). Though Ling-Ai served as co-producer and sponsor, she was credited as a "technical advisor" in its credits.
Victory Through Air Power (film): '''''Victory Through Air Power''''' is a 1943 American Technicolor animated documentary feature film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists on July 17, 1943. It is based on the 1942 book ''Victory Through Air Power'' by Alexander P. de Seversky. De Seversky appeared in the film, an unusual departure from the Disney animated feature films of the time.