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"Dave Kearton" wrote:

"William R Thompson" wrote in message
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| Okay, so all three machines are models. It's still a
| well-constructed diorama.
|
| They say that the wires which held up the fighting
| machines were invisible in the original Technicolor
| release of the movie, but they showed up when the
| film was reprinted in a different film format.
|
| --Bill Thompson
|
|
|


...and are clear copies of late-war German designs.

Not so fast Dave! :-)

From the trivia section of this film's entry at IMDB:

"Albert Nozaki based his designs of the Martian machines on the shape
and movements of swans."

It would seem to me that any late-war German designs would still be
considered top secret in the early 1950s when WotW was being produced.

--
One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others can
not grasp.*- Ed Wood