It’s astonishing that World War 2 was somehow fought without the use of computers, cell phones and the internet. In fact, only the lowly Fax (‘Fascimile’) machine provided any true up-to-date technology. Somehow vast projects were organized and immaculately executed in record time–planes were designed as trainers to teach squads of young men how to fly much more sophisticated gear. Boats were built. Ammunition and steel and bolts and guns and stuff were designed, manufactured and delivered in a rapid-fire fashion. And then there was show-biz. Not to be caught with its pants down (so to speak) Hollywood jumped full-throttle into the ‘war effort’ as it was known, doing all sorts of stuff that’s described and shown in the above’March of Time’ newsreel from 1943 titled ‘Show Business At War’. Dig the vast and inventive assortment of people, studios, ideas all of which were set in motion almost instantly upon the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It makes one wonder what a similar effort would look like today. I imagine a lot of stuff would be conducted via chat apps, tweets, unopened emails and unread texts all of which would result in much less than was accomplished 80 years ago. Add Pete Hegseth to the whole thing and you have a formula for precisely the opposite of what the above movie so proudly displays. Yet another example of a very different America with a very different spirit than the one we currently are living in…