Christmas in London, 1941.

It’s don’t have much to say about this movie made about a Christmas in a world that we have thrown into the garbage can of cynicism and egotism. Watching Britain celebrate Christmas during the Blitz and listening to the American narrator all but begging his countrymen to get into the fight and help them put a couple lumps in my throat. I also got a little bit angry to know how much distance we’ve put between the people who made and appear in that film and the people who populate the United States and Britain today. You’d never get away with even pitching a propaganda film like that one today. God forbid the government made one. The newspaper stories would be practically incandescent.

To be sure, there are still such people around, but too few. Way too few.

Thanks to James Lileks for tweeting it.

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