Ode to Man

After completing "All God's Children," I could not stop thinking about the 1944 film briefly featured in that project, "[Target for Today](https://archive.org/details/TargetForToday1944VideoAudioUpgrade)." Unique to war propaganda is a tone both clinical and worshipful, and nowhere is this better exemplified than in the repetitive second-hand clicks and lavish emptied bullet casings captured by the First Motion Picture Unit of the U.S. Army Air Forces in Britain. I could not decide if the effect is best characterized as a camera oblation to war, technology, or human maleness itself: But then, what is the difference? Reconstituted then, here is "Ode to Man." Featuring: Men, doing some of their favorite things. Song: "The Man" by The Killers