A look at how the weather bureau tries to warn farmers and businessmen about approaching large storms. Although some precautions can be taken to lessen their impact, storms have to run their course, and there is really not much we can do about them.
Direction
Burnford makes cloud formations feel like impending moral judgment.
Sound
Nesbitt's narrator voice: doom wrapped in mid-century radio warmth.
Director
Paul Burnford
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during WWII, this was government-funded reassurance that some forces couldn't be bombed or rationed — nature as unifying existential threat.
Part of MGM's 'Passing Parade' series, these shorts played before features and accidentally invented the anxiety-driven documentary format we now call 'the news.'
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