World War 2 Spy Training Film: Undercover | OSS Film | ca. 1944

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  • @TheBestFilmArchives
    @TheBestFilmArchives  6 лет назад +47

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    • @curtiscarpenter9881
      @curtiscarpenter9881 3 года назад +5

      I should think recruiting as many assets as well as spies should be as important to effectively running operations continuously.🤯🧠💴💶💷🥂🍾

    • @jarrottkenney288
      @jarrottkenney288 3 года назад

      Io

    • @jerseywalcott6408
      @jerseywalcott6408 9 месяцев назад

      Lol

  • @pressgurkan
    @pressgurkan 3 года назад +359

    Me walking into a barber
    Barber: "What do you want?"
    Me: "Enemy area style"

  • @Jebu911
    @Jebu911 2 года назад +61

    "how did the nazis get 1000 more fighter aircrafts?"
    "I was working hard like i was told"

  • @paulmorley1225
    @paulmorley1225 Год назад +85

    Everyone who watched this can put "trained US spy" on their resume.

    • @davidvaughn817
      @davidvaughn817 Год назад +2

      Anyone can do that, regardless.

    • @BlueBoy0
      @BlueBoy0 10 месяцев назад +2

      Which would immediately give away how bad of a spy they are.

    • @paulmorley1225
      @paulmorley1225 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@BlueBoy0 Not if they're a double agent.

  • @robertzeurunkl8401
    @robertzeurunkl8401 Год назад +14

    28:30 - draw a map disguised as harmless doodling. Harmless doodling looks exactly like a map. LOL

  • @mr.pavone9719
    @mr.pavone9719 3 года назад +309

    So imagine you've been selected to watch this film and before they roll it your training officer walks in, says a few words and tells his projectionist to roll the film, only to see some other officer come it to say a few words then tell his guy to roll the film...

    • @BobWidlefish
      @BobWidlefish 3 года назад +35

      Filmception.

    • @jmansfield8554
      @jmansfield8554 2 года назад +18

      That’s when you really need to remember that exfiltration plan you made. The classic, “Excuse me just a moment, I’m experiencing projectile diarrhea” may work in a pinch but some of The Enemy’s sharper counter-agents might be on to this.

    • @aryootidjo3357
      @aryootidjo3357 2 года назад

      may... Set Up

    • @KN-jr6tx
      @KN-jr6tx 2 года назад +4

      Ha! I was thinking the same. Perhaps they videotape every time they introduce the film to a new class, then bootstrap it on the front of the most recent version?
      I think Strangers With Candy riffed on old films like this in one of the episodes.

    • @knightscroftsquire-muldoon
      @knightscroftsquire-muldoon 2 года назад

      Yeah the beginning bothered me too!

  • @Lebrenth
    @Lebrenth 3 года назад +470

    Had a dream I was a spy. I was asked to play the piano. I played and sang Springsteen's "Born in the USA". Little details like that can give you away.

    • @InParticularNobody
      @InParticularNobody 3 года назад +36

      Did your captors deduce that it was in fact an ironic song that satirised traditional notions of patriotism? Did they take you their bosom and train you up as a double-agent? I do hope so.

    • @Lebrenth
      @Lebrenth 3 года назад +27

      @@InParticularNobody what an optimistic and insightful possibility! But I'm afraid not. In fact I knew right away by the look they gave me that I made a big mistake.

    • @markrainford1219
      @markrainford1219 3 года назад +11

      It was when they pulled the trigger, you realised this was going to be a bad day.

    • @Tabu11211
      @Tabu11211 3 года назад +7

      I laughed way to hard at this

    • @solomonheppner
      @solomonheppner 2 года назад +2

      Frankfurter

  • @VAC2
    @VAC2 7 лет назад +184

    Keeping these videos alive is very important and I thank you for archiving these. I have gone through every video and downloaded them and added them to my archive of historical videos and images. Again thank you very much for saving these important videos. Cheers!

    • @TheBestFilmArchives
      @TheBestFilmArchives  7 лет назад +37

      You are welcome, VAC2. Thank you for watching.

    • @everydayhero5076
      @everydayhero5076 3 года назад +1

      REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

    • @abemi869
      @abemi869 3 года назад +3

      Hey mate, can you share the links. These are very important aspects of human history and heritage.

    • @VAC2
      @VAC2 3 года назад +2

      @@abemi869 I have them all saved on my personal home server. If you would like we can exchange emails and I can either give you acess to said server or email the ones you want to you or upload them to a file sharing service!

    • @VAC2
      @VAC2 3 года назад +2

      @@abemi869 and yes I totally agree things like these need to be preserved! I have been archiving footage from.....basically as far back as possible to now. I have videos of interviews of civil war vets at a meet up with their wifes. Its amazing!

  • @michaelwestmoreland2530
    @michaelwestmoreland2530 Год назад +16

    "If you think I've got the ability, don't worry about my attitude."
    Nice to see "titanically stupid" isn't something we invented recently.

  • @neonsashimidream1075
    @neonsashimidream1075 3 года назад +307

    If I was living in a country at war with a city named "Enemy Town," I'd really be questioning if we were on the right side of history.

    • @wolfrainexxx
      @wolfrainexxx 2 года назад +30

      What about Friendly Town? That would make me think I was *_definitely_* on the wrong side of history.

    • @brandonsutton7474
      @brandonsutton7474 2 года назад

      Because back then there weren't idiots such as yourself. If it was enemy territory and you didn't know who the enemy was then your idiot and shouldn't rven be enlisted due to your extremely low intelligence.

    • @Soykes
      @Soykes 2 года назад +21

      "Are we the baddies?"

    • @wolfrainexxx
      @wolfrainexxx 2 года назад +14

      @@Soykes "No, it's Enemy Town that are the baddies."

    • @areaxisthegurkha
      @areaxisthegurkha 2 года назад +8

      If you live in Enemy town, it would be called Friendly town in terms of video game logic.

  • @terrancat
    @terrancat Год назад +11

    Is this why Silents & boomers would say "just go to the place saying you're looking to work". That 10 second interview is the most unbelievable part of this film.

  • @BushcraftingBogan
    @BushcraftingBogan 3 года назад +105

    So ya got a weak back? When did ya get a weak back?
    Oh, about a week back.

  • @Hwyadylaw
    @Hwyadylaw 7 лет назад +475

    Enemy Area seems like a nice place to live.

    • @karenaudreytodd
      @karenaudreytodd 7 лет назад +19

      It was.Why do you think the British declared war on Enemy Area? It wasn't because they gave a shit about Poland otherwise they would have declared war on Russia as well. Russia wasn't a nice place to live though, so the British were not jealous of Russia...

    • @92GreyBlue
      @92GreyBlue 4 года назад +17

      @@karenaudreytodd it's true. It's rumored that Hitler payed one last visit to enemy area posing as a seaman's mechanic before fleeing to his subarctic base in antarctica.. despite the fact that the British had already "liberated" it from the Germans.. a ballsy move but truly a testament to the beauty and the history of enemy area.. anyway just a piece of history for you nerds.

    • @markzimmerman7279
      @markzimmerman7279 3 года назад +1

      The biggest sailfish in Michigan waters? None here.

    • @JiveDadson
      @JiveDadson 3 года назад +22

      Never underestimate the cunning of Area Man.

    • @JohnsonLobster
      @JohnsonLobster 3 года назад +14

      Are you crazy? There is The War going on over there.

  • @Tribecasoothsayer
    @Tribecasoothsayer 3 года назад +63

    Agent Al has a very convincing Enemy accent and dressing style. Those high waisted pants and short little boy-sized tie were the height of German, err, Enemy fashion.

  • @garrysekelli6776
    @garrysekelli6776 7 лет назад +271

    love how all the foreign enemies speak english.

    • @ygk1994
      @ygk1994 7 лет назад +15

      Garry Sekelli almost everyone (*except the f### french*) can speak english right? Its not that odd.

    • @divinefever
      @divinefever 7 лет назад +22

      YGK, oh yeah cause everyone in Europe speaks english with eachother rather than their own language

    • @Brakvash
      @Brakvash 7 лет назад +7

      Extremely Thick American English at that xD

    • @KirbyMan12
      @KirbyMan12 7 лет назад +25

      It's a joke don't-cha know? Amongst themselves they speak English flawlessly. However in the open, or on the internet. They talk in some weird non-english language. It's the longest running joke in history. ~Wikipedia.

    • @firstlast1047
      @firstlast1047 7 лет назад +1

      Wanted to make sure you did not have to learn a foreign language.

  • @fastradioburst253
    @fastradioburst253 Год назад +9

    I was just going to watch a few minutes of this, but it was so entertaining I watched the whole thing. Better than most Netflix movies, I must say.

  • @xXHardCorrXx
    @xXHardCorrXx Год назад +41

    My great grandfather was a French immigrant and OSS agent. No one in the family ever knew about it as he kept it a secret to the grave. We were notified after his death.

    • @BlueBoy0
      @BlueBoy0 10 месяцев назад +2

      By who?

    • @spiritmatter1553
      @spiritmatter1553 6 месяцев назад

      An in-law told me he met Osama bin Laden. I don’t believe him either.

  • @Denver_Risley
    @Denver_Risley Год назад +35

    An overconfident agent doesn't have to look for trouble. Words of wisdom, Lloyd. Words. Of. Wisdom.

  • @APoisonousTree
    @APoisonousTree 4 года назад +61

    That is John Ford the film director playing the Lawyer!

    • @Woodsaras
      @Woodsaras 3 года назад +1

      I thought ive seen him Somewhere!!!!!!!!

    • @jamesdewane1642
      @jamesdewane1642 3 года назад +4

      His acting was better than anyone else's in the movie. Not a good move for a spy to draw attention to himself by being competent above the level of his peers!

  • @thehalalreviewer
    @thehalalreviewer 3 года назад +98

    “We like our men to have a good working knowledge of other methods of penetration.” It can come in handy from time to time.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 3 года назад +17

      I wonder if that sounded as odd in 1944 as it does now...

    • @Nocturnal_Rites
      @Nocturnal_Rites 3 года назад +18

      And here Al gave up his chance to show all his knowledge of other methods of penetration when he turned down that streetwalker...

    • @thehalalreviewer
      @thehalalreviewer 3 года назад +4

      @@Nocturnal_Rites Lol 😂 I’m sure there were other opportunities

    • @StoutProper
      @StoutProper 2 года назад +3

      That’s what she said

    • @Aoekin
      @Aoekin 2 года назад +1

      laughing so hard at this comment

  • @MondoBeno
    @MondoBeno 2 года назад +98

    My great grandfather worked for the CIA before 1975 when he retired. He told me that every American businessman who worked overseas was working for the CIA in one way or another. He would provide maps, info on neighborhoods, what languages were common other than Spanish (German, Yiddish, Lebanese) and what kind of foreigners were coming to the hotels. He spoke fluent German (and looked German too) so that gave him an edge.

    • @440mopar5
      @440mopar5 2 года назад

      Your not a good story teller.
      What a crock of shxt.

    • @Aoekin
      @Aoekin 2 года назад +8

      thats pretty awesome and I know it was a hard job for sure back then. My colleges uncle was a spy in he military and had some wild stories about sitting in a tree for almost a week, awaiting a high official German and his crew to show up.

    • @thedrewb2273
      @thedrewb2273 2 года назад +2

      They speak Arabic in Lebanon - don't you speak American?? ;)

    • @MondoBeno
      @MondoBeno 2 года назад +9

      @@thedrewb2273 The Arabic spoken in Lebanon sounds different than what they speak in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He worked in Mexico City a lot, so he would report back on the ethnic enclaves.

    • @aryootidjo3357
      @aryootidjo3357 2 года назад

      @@MondoBeno Legend or Covert ... ? Story

  • @donteanka6196
    @donteanka6196 2 года назад +50

    Love those videos, better entertainment then nowadays movie industry. Thanks for sharing!

    • @JoeArn1
      @JoeArn1 2 года назад +3

      I 100% agree

  • @smudgey1kenobey
    @smudgey1kenobey Год назад +6

    I’m reading a book about the American spy Virginia Hall. Everything in this film makes sense and matches her experience. Really interesting. Thanks!

  • @M4jeff
    @M4jeff 3 года назад +16

    The Bugs Bunny cartoon music adds a hint of authenticity to the SOE/OSS training manual.

  • @godlaydying
    @godlaydying 3 года назад +41

    The thing that leaps out at me is that there's so much framing. They couldn't just have a narrator introduce the film, but had to have a frame story where an officer is talking to soldiers about to watch a film. They couldn't just say "anything which makes people ask questions is bad", they have to have a story where a guy tells another guy "anything which makes people ask questions is bad".
    I suppose they were worried the audience was going to get confused. But I imagine some Lieutenant saying "Now listen you men; I want this film to interrogate the notion of audience and performer, see? I want every man in the OSS to ask himself if watching a film isn't itself a kind of performance, is that understood?" 😄

    • @jebsmith323
      @jebsmith323 2 года назад +2

      Film production was part of the war effort.

    • @smudgey1kenobey
      @smudgey1kenobey Год назад +1

      The guy in the dark glasses is John Ford, isn’t it?

    • @danielgregg2530
      @danielgregg2530 Год назад

      @@smudgey1kenobey I keep thinking so too.

  • @cameronc.cameronson7632
    @cameronc.cameronson7632 7 лет назад +106

    Ugh, imagine having to spend years of your life in enemy capital, what a nightmare.

    • @profesionalshitposter675
      @profesionalshitposter675 3 года назад +7

      imagine explaining to the soviets your an American spy

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 3 года назад +6

      @@profesionalshitposter675 Probably best not to tell them at all.
      The implication is that "Albert Horn" was sent to German-occupied Czechoslovakia (there is a brief film clip of central Prague).

    • @zulubeatz1
      @zulubeatz1 3 года назад +2

      T was 44 he only had to wait a few months for the Russians.

    • @rickwrites2612
      @rickwrites2612 Год назад +3

      In cold war, Moscow was the most difficult assignment for case officers according to The Moscow Rules by Joanne Mendez former Chief of Disguise and CIA vet. It's a book but there are long videos of her speaking about it.

    • @Re_Doubt
      @Re_Doubt Год назад +1

      Especially if that enemy capital is Washington DC

  • @LewdCustomer
    @LewdCustomer 7 лет назад +64

    I learned the Underground mostly works above ground.

    • @LewdCustomer
      @LewdCustomer 3 года назад

      Where is the enema area anyway?

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 3 года назад

      @@LewdCustomer There is a clue or two that "Albert Horn" was sent to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. I would say his more slapdash colleague Charlie was disguised as a Spanish fisherman.

  • @bigbowlowrong4694
    @bigbowlowrong4694 3 года назад +31

    This is utterly fascinating. I’m sure the basic principles remain identical.

    • @wolfrainexxx
      @wolfrainexxx 2 года назад +15

      Except, in modern society, Al would be the suspicious person while the other guy would just be seen as a Tik Tok'r trying to get a selfie with a submarine.

  • @Tribecasoothsayer
    @Tribecasoothsayer 3 года назад +71

    When I go for my next haircut I’m going to request the Enemy Area Style

    • @johnr797
      @johnr797 3 года назад +1

      @MichaelKingsfordGray I dunno, I've heard most people's first encounter with a mohel can get pretty dicey

    • @Jebu911
      @Jebu911 2 года назад

      To be fair lot of guys have that hitler jugend hairstyle nowdays.

    • @lizettewanzer8650
      @lizettewanzer8650 Год назад

      😝🤪

    • @TimKGrimes
      @TimKGrimes 9 месяцев назад

      Hahaga

  • @vanargrand3199
    @vanargrand3199 3 года назад +15

    "No, it's not kind, it's my job." That line was pretty heavy ngl

  • @skram841
    @skram841 2 года назад +5

    these old training videos from the 40s is my new love

  • @ramixnudles7958
    @ramixnudles7958 3 года назад +22

    Is there a certificate of completion available?
    I need to pad my Professional Development Plan for work.

  • @CNCTEMATIC
    @CNCTEMATIC 2 года назад +16

    No place like Enemy Town. You have to check it out if you ever go to Enemy Area.

  • @christinecameron1612
    @christinecameron1612 7 лет назад +89

    I would NOT have sent charlie to the port town. Not only is he brash, egotistical, and inclined to chase the ladies, but but because of being from there, he would be likely to be recognized, and someone might question his cover.

    • @ianh1504
      @ianh1504 3 года назад +25

      The guys notes said inclined to erratic behavior, not erotic....

    • @jamesdewane1642
      @jamesdewane1642 3 года назад +6

      I was rooting for him the whole time.

    • @johnr797
      @johnr797 3 года назад +1

      TOTALLY agree 👍👏👌🙌💯😀

    • @lololololololol
      @lololololololol 3 года назад +4

      Spies always chase the ladies. It's part of the job

    • @chris_sndw
      @chris_sndw 3 года назад +1

      He is the born James Bond.

  • @ianh1504
    @ianh1504 3 года назад +19

    I think youre gonna blow your cover when you show up and you're like, ahh, so lovely to be back home at *ENEMY AREA*

  • @rockstarJDP
    @rockstarJDP 3 года назад +55

    Remember, rule no.1 of undercover espionage is never reveal your real name. James Bond clearly never saw this training movie.

    • @impaugjuldivmax
      @impaugjuldivmax 3 года назад +3

      unless that is not your real name

    • @wolfrainexxx
      @wolfrainexxx 2 года назад +1

      @@impaugjuldivmax James Bond is definitely not his real name, but it is Bond's real name.

    • @JoeArn1
      @JoeArn1 2 года назад +2

      Because he was a Brit. This is an American video ;)

    • @wolfrainexxx
      @wolfrainexxx 2 года назад +4

      @@JoeArn1 If Bond had watched these videos, he might have been more successful. :p

    • @VashStarwind
      @VashStarwind Год назад +2

      You never heard of the theory that "James Bond" was just a code name, and thats why there were so many different guys as "James Bond's"? ha

  • @DadsResale
    @DadsResale 2 года назад +31

    I always whisper my internal dialogue so enemy spies won't hear my inner thoughts.

  • @finncullen
    @finncullen Год назад +3

    "Hey buddy is this the way to Enemy Town?"
    "Well... we call it Our Town to be honest." *sidelong glance*

  • @chelseahill2529
    @chelseahill2529 7 лет назад +27

    Thank you so much for compiling all of these videos! Fascinating!

  • @martinw.8572
    @martinw.8572 Год назад +5

    I love how in literally any of these films featuring a german address book, its labled "Adressebuch", which in German makes no sense. It is either "Adressbuch" (literal translation) or "Adressenbuch" ('book of adresses'). I guess that would've blown the cover quite readily.

    • @johnrogan9420
      @johnrogan9420 8 месяцев назад

      Viel danke schone comrade.

  • @roflmows
    @roflmows 7 лет назад +12

    watching this makes me think of The Running Man. not the arnold movie...but the Stephen King novella. it's amazing how closely Al's story meets with Ben Richards' story. they follow the same principles, same techniques. very cool.

    • @Jebu911
      @Jebu911 2 года назад +3

      your comment made me wanna re-watch the running man and I'm talking about the arnold movie.

  • @onlinebills9169
    @onlinebills9169 Год назад +2

    We have to give appreciation to the composer, conductor and musicians of the music playing throughout the presentation. Similar to all suspense movies and cartoons of the times.

  • @boltvanderhuge8711
    @boltvanderhuge8711 2 года назад +3

    Best ice breaker/spy identifier: “ eh? That’s good cover!”

  • @PotentialEn3rgy
    @PotentialEn3rgy 7 лет назад +50

    44:57 There's the part 100% of agents ignored.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 3 года назад +3

      Some probably, male hormones being what they are, but it could well have ended badly.

    • @ThommyofThenn
      @ThommyofThenn 2 года назад

      A lot of guys have low testosterone. Some men are even asexual. The more you know

  • @BlackAbe007
    @BlackAbe007 3 года назад +12

    What a spy needs. A number code name. A suit from Seville Row. An Aston Martin. An Oxford education. Cigarettes in a metal case. A cigarette lighter. Several forms of currency. Subtle sarcasm. Know small ice breaker words in foreign languages. And when necessary, a duck hat you can wear as you swim to fool the enemy. Note - make sure it’s not Duck Hunting Season. And finally. Always use your real name and introduce yourself announcing your last name first, followed by your first name...

    • @erpizzaiol5457
      @erpizzaiol5457 3 года назад +2

      He sure will blend in ENEMY AREA

    • @arcang2102
      @arcang2102 3 года назад +2

      He's being facetious!& rightly so!! Ian Fleming spy novels aggrandized & romantisized the exclusive privatized lifestyle of espionage,which made it to the Silver Screen.Bcs that was thrill-seeking entertainment of that time.its really about the gentrification of infiltrating fascist minded infidels inside the asset stripping of cultural wealth thru the usurpation of their natural resources & acreages of land. The public recruiting of such narced-out, snitch brigade nonsense is completly ridiculous!!!

    • @Tawadeb
      @Tawadeb Год назад +3

      And always order a vodka martini shaken not stirred

    • @octaviovaladaoferreirinhad2689
      @octaviovaladaoferreirinhad2689 10 месяцев назад +1

      A Walther PPK is also very important

  • @robertrobertson7129
    @robertrobertson7129 7 лет назад +10

    Thank you both worth seeing and thinking on....good history

  • @ManInTheBigHat
    @ManInTheBigHat 2 года назад +27

    I took a class in German at NYU. Only I wasn't enrolled in the school. I was standing in for a friend who needed the credits. I got him an A and I learned to speak German in two semesters. I had to answer to his name and memorize his SS number and other information about his credits and classes. On the second day of class someone came in to gather this info from us. I had to act. It was fun.
    Years later I ran into the professor of that class in the street. He called me by my false name. I fessed up to the ruse. He was not amused.

    • @connormckibben5986
      @connormckibben5986 Год назад +1

      Congratulations. You've turned yourself into a national asset, mein genosse. HAHAHA, seriously, what an awesome story!

    • @kimball4151
      @kimball4151 Год назад +1

      I never would have fessed up years later

    • @Beethoven80
      @Beethoven80 Год назад +7

      Being from Germany and not from the U.S., I had to read the sentence about the SS number twice.

    • @Tawadeb
      @Tawadeb Год назад

      I dont quite understand this

    • @ManInTheBigHat
      @ManInTheBigHat Год назад

      @@Beethoven80 : That's curious. It didn't occur to me the double meaning of "SS." In retrospect perhaps I should have spelled out the words, as follows: Social Security number.

  • @Christian-sf4ey
    @Christian-sf4ey 7 лет назад +14

    Is that John Ford playing Baldwin, the lawyer, about 5 ins. in?

  • @Beauty_Bot
    @Beauty_Bot 2 года назад +8

    Tell me how that 'streetwalker' has nicer clothes than I ever will lmao.

  • @scarfhs1
    @scarfhs1 3 года назад +10

    Nice to hear that at their top secret headquarters the door is always open!

    • @vksasdgaming9472
      @vksasdgaming9472 3 года назад +3

      How else could they recruit new agents? Anybody who walks in is auditioned.

  • @elmstreetsurvivor1866
    @elmstreetsurvivor1866 2 года назад +5

    I'm from Riverside, CA. This film is 100% accurate: Everyone from San Bernardino and around it calls it San Berdoo.

  • @KapnKerfuffle
    @KapnKerfuffle 7 лет назад +50

    This reminds me of that scene in Inglorious Basterds where the guy holds up his first three fingers instead of his back three fingers to order three beers and the Nazis find him out.

    • @yourlifeisagreatstory
      @yourlifeisagreatstory 7 лет назад +4

      I thought about the same thing when they were in the bar

    • @ichigorobei
      @ichigorobei 7 лет назад +24

      Actually, to indicate the number three (3) in Germany with your fingers, you hold up your THUMB, index finger, and middle finger, NOT your back three fingers. The mistake the guy made was that he held up his index finger, middle finger, and ring finger instead of using his thumb, index finger, and middle finger. Similarly, in continental Europe, to indicate the number one (1) with fingers, you hold up your THUMB, not your index finger as we do in the U.S. The number two (2) is indicated with the THUMB and INDEX finger, NOT the index and middle fingers.

    • @Conner624
      @Conner624 7 лет назад

      That's what I was thinking of

    • @tylerbrass4002
      @tylerbrass4002 3 года назад

      @@ichigorobei This is actually super interesting, thank you for dropping this tidbit.

    • @reckless20
      @reckless20 3 года назад +2

      @@ichigorobei in continental Europe, to indicate the number one (1) with fingers, you hold up your THUMB
      how'd they differ number one (1) from a thumb up then?

  • @mistermusturd6402
    @mistermusturd6402 3 года назад +14

    Always remember to count three with the thumb, index, and middle fingers.

  • @seanstrygg
    @seanstrygg 2 года назад +5

    Charles' trainer reminded me of the film director John Ford for some reason.

    • @ralphshelley9586
      @ralphshelley9586 2 года назад +3

      That was him!

    • @jayfrank1913
      @jayfrank1913 Год назад

      @@ralphshelley9586 It sure looked like him. But Ford did lose an eye on Midway in 1942. He usually wore an eye patch after that. Maybe he has a glass eye in this?

  • @saxoncodex9736
    @saxoncodex9736 2 года назад +5

    Remember using your own name, can result in the Enemy greeting you with. "Ah Mr. Bond I've been expecting you".

  • @Mikegeb4545
    @Mikegeb4545 Год назад +2

    It's funny that offering a cigrate is like offering a tea or coffee during this time. And no one says no thank you I don't smoke, when it is offered.

  • @octaviovaladaoferreirinhad2689
    @octaviovaladaoferreirinhad2689 10 месяцев назад +1

    Last night while watching (spoiler alert) the episode 4 of "Master of the air" on Apple TV Plus+, the techniques demonstrated in this video helped me to understand how the Resistance identified the german spy among the American crew members they were trying to send back to England.
    During the interrogation, they asked the crew members to write a few things and then write the date. The suspect (ordinary looking with no german accent) wrote the date in dd-mm-yyyy format. Minutes later one of the resistance members asked the suspect to light a cigarette and the poor bastard used a Wermacht standard issue IMCO lighter instead of a Zippo. Executed on the spot just like the characters in this video.

  • @willcal2738
    @willcal2738 2 года назад +2

    these are so optimisitc as a whole, on how the enemy would treat our guys if caught or sussed

    • @checker297
      @checker297 2 года назад +4

      ikr, it was more likely shoot first, ask questions later unless they were specifically trying to leak false information.

    • @Sashazur
      @Sashazur Год назад +3

      If the movie showed them all being caught, tortured and shot, they probably would have trouble meeting their spy recruiting goals.

  • @PEWPEWGURU
    @PEWPEWGURU 3 года назад +5

    5:15 nobody would ever expect an accountant to become a lawyer 🤫

  • @ferros8215
    @ferros8215 3 года назад +2

    Agent 1: I talk that East Enemy Area language, Comrade.
    Handler 1: What? East?
    ---------------------------------------------------
    Agent 2: Okay, If you want to waste time, but I tell you I know al Porter like a book.
    Handler 2: Perhaps the enemy has added a couple of chapters and a Wall since you've left.

  • @smenard1107
    @smenard1107 3 года назад +4

    I use to love summers at “EL-PORTO” as a kid

  • @kevinfleming9542
    @kevinfleming9542 3 года назад +23

    "Cigarette?"
    "Yes.I know"

    • @bartacomuskidd775
      @bartacomuskidd775 3 года назад

      SPY! SPY!

    • @Andytlp
      @Andytlp 10 месяцев назад

      One wrong word or action and youre under suspicion. People were paranoid back then and i bet there we're rewards for turning in possible spies so there were no shortage of trihards.

  • @bencecserkuti7110
    @bencecserkuti7110 Год назад +1

    A bit late to the party, but let me say thank you for all your hard work with these videos. They make for a very interesting watch.

  • @OlovMetal
    @OlovMetal 3 года назад +2

    "Nothing will blow you quicker.... " The men chuckling in the room and the OSS officer telling the men the quiet down, Jerry aint joking.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 3 года назад +1

      Possibly not sexual slang in the 1940s.

    • @Jebu911
      @Jebu911 2 года назад

      @@stevekaczynski3793 True pretty sure their slang was quite different. I mean gay just meant you were happy. Had nothing to do with being penetrated from the rear like those towns.

  • @alomaalber6514
    @alomaalber6514 4 года назад +1

    love his paisley silk tie, rare to find now, the big fat wonderful short silk 1940's ties.

  • @davidbenner2289
    @davidbenner2289 3 года назад +17

    Many of my mentors in my early life through my late teens were OSS and even MI6 from WWII. Dear old Dad did not get in until the late 40's/early 50's after leaving the military after WWII. He became a legend in clandestine services and gurilla warfare: teaching and doing. I lived all over the World, his family often close by or with him. That in itself my siblings and I a good and unusual education. A lot of the stuff in this film was was still being used into the 1990's. I can't say after that. Dear old Mom, also involved for several years, and dear old Dad are together in Arlington. Our Government is quite happy with the the secrets that died with them. This stuff was and is serious business. People died when people lied.

    • @TakeNoteOfThat
      @TakeNoteOfThat 3 года назад +6

      No one believes any of this 🙁

    • @davidbenner2289
      @davidbenner2289 3 года назад +2

      @@TakeNoteOfThat gosh, my feelings are hurt. Does this mean we can't be friends. No, I have a dog. I don't need friends. As for the varsity: it's all true. It's a big World out there. You need to get out more.

    • @TakeNoteOfThat
      @TakeNoteOfThat 3 года назад +1

      @@davidbenner2289 did you just try to repurpose a piece of dialogue from "Tombstone" as your own?

    • @davidbenner2289
      @davidbenner2289 3 года назад

      @@TakeNoteOfThat nope. Fill me in.

    • @kd6844
      @kd6844 Год назад

      Wait. You just exposed family secrets?

  • @PlasmaCoolantLeak
    @PlasmaCoolantLeak 2 года назад +2

    The takehome message: Don't Be An Agent Charles. Do Be An Agent Al.

  • @davidd5523
    @davidd5523 3 года назад +9

    "Are you set on your cover?"
    "I have a full time job, as an accountant"

    • @johnrogan9420
      @johnrogan9420 3 года назад

      I am Joe Biden...46th USA Oresident... Very convincing to our enemies....not!

    • @linusp9316
      @linusp9316 3 года назад +2

      @@johnrogan9420 Calm down, weirdo.

  • @scottywarren3498
    @scottywarren3498 3 года назад +3

    Host: Would you mind saying a few words...
    Guest Speaker: ... A few words

  • @ignitetheinferno1858
    @ignitetheinferno1858 3 года назад +8

    Plot Twist: This is the only time that the secret Axis Power, “Enemy Area” was revealed. It was such a splendid country that the history books expunged all records of it to keep people from being sympathetic to the enemy.

  • @tihsitef8183
    @tihsitef8183 3 года назад +12

    Seems like having anxiety is a job requirement

    • @jayfrank1913
      @jayfrank1913 Год назад

      My anxiety would hit the roof if I were a spy in Enemytown!

  • @AltarParssoy
    @AltarParssoy 3 года назад +12

    as a british spy, i found this video quite helpful. i'm glad that i'm bald. no hair grease can blow my cover.

    • @MrMenefrego1
      @MrMenefrego1 3 года назад +1

      lol, you're 'glad' that you're bald? I doubt that very much.

    • @AltarParssoy
      @AltarParssoy 3 года назад

      @@MrMenefrego1 yeah. wigs fit perfectly tho. easy to disguise.

    • @davidjones332
      @davidjones332 3 года назад +1

      At least you're saving a fortune on Brylcreem!

    • @AltarParssoy
      @AltarParssoy 3 года назад +1

      @@davidjones332 yeah but that money goes straight to martini's. :/ Next time I will be an american spy. Bourbon is cheaper.

    • @MrMenefrego1
      @MrMenefrego1 3 года назад +1

      @@AltarParssoy I kinda prefer my full head-O-hair!

  • @SpeedDarlingtonTv
    @SpeedDarlingtonTv 5 лет назад +9

    Enjoyed watching this

  • @nottherealpaulsmith
    @nottherealpaulsmith 6 месяцев назад +1

    "Where are you headed?"
    "Enemy town."
    "YOU AMERICAN SPY, EVERYONE AROUND HERE CALLS IT *FRIENDLY TOWN!* "

  • @MrNelson231
    @MrNelson231 3 года назад +16

    Would love to see what current day training is like now.

    • @BlackAbe007
      @BlackAbe007 3 года назад +2

      @Lemony Bacon imagine Goldfinger and Bloefeld and Scaramanga trolling everyone....

    • @BlackAbe007
      @BlackAbe007 3 года назад +7

      No Mr Bond. I expect you to be Triggered...

    • @hojoinhisarcher
      @hojoinhisarcher 3 года назад +1

      recruiting is done thru on line gaming.

    • @bartacomuskidd775
      @bartacomuskidd775 3 года назад +1

      Do you have your neckbeard? your protest sign? do you know your cover? "Im a vegan, progressive, bi-fluidian-meta-girlboy-with sensual affinities. im absolutely insane and self absorbed" and do you know your job? "To whine"

    • @wolfrainexxx
      @wolfrainexxx 2 года назад +1

      Simple. Dye your hair purple, call yourself non-binary, introduce yourself by pronouns, then report everything you see on Tik Tok to your fans; all Governments can watch for free.

  • @mynamedoesntmatter8652
    @mynamedoesntmatter8652 Год назад

    28:38 That ‘harmless doodling’ looked like a dead giveaway to me.

  • @DrewberTravels
    @DrewberTravels 7 лет назад +7

    I really love the music in this film.

    • @GMATveteran
      @GMATveteran 7 лет назад +5

      This is exactly the type of music that I'd want to be played (perhaps by an orchestra following me around) while I'm on an espionage operation. :-D

    • @taxationistheft3389
      @taxationistheft3389 7 лет назад +1

      GMATveteran lol

  • @MarcBrewer
    @MarcBrewer Год назад +3

    Academy Award winning director John Ford as attorney JP Baldwin!

    • @skipads5141
      @skipads5141 Год назад

      I was wondering why there was no mention of that.

  • @westdakota9180
    @westdakota9180 2 года назад +2

    My name is Hans Sauerkraut, I was born in enemy area, and grew up here. I am a barber who specializes in enemy hairstyles. I enjoy long walks on the beach while I look for submarines- uhh I mean whales

  • @holmanrw
    @holmanrw 4 года назад +18

    I bet the British were less than ecstatic about having their training methods and procedures committed to film and distributed through the colossus that the OSS quickly grew into. The British worked with small numbers of carefully picked agents where the Americans went for quantity over quality. The same attitude can still be seen today with Special Forces the British SFs total a few hundred men but are generally acknowledged to be the best in the world whereas the US has tens of thousands of men they classify as SF.

    • @ID-8491
      @ID-8491 3 года назад +3

      Delta Force is the true equivalent of SAS. Interestingly, the only unit called Special Forces is the Green Berets. Semantics, you know.

    • @shable1436
      @shable1436 3 года назад +7

      Look at the population differences, and military size, the ratio is similar

    • @josephfelder33
      @josephfelder33 2 года назад +1

      The relative ratio works things out. The US doesn't just hand out SF classifications, either. They have a rigorous assessment, selection and then training process just like the SAS.

    • @ramstacp
      @ramstacp Год назад

      You have no idea how the British felt about it. For all we know they consulted on the film. So, in the future try not to make assumptions about things you know nothing about.

    • @channelmoved9096
      @channelmoved9096 Год назад

      The historical record was the exact opposite. The British spy effort started out as a disaster of blown cover.

  • @chaosinsurgentpublicrepres5242
    @chaosinsurgentpublicrepres5242 2 года назад +3

    "I wonder what I will do this Friday" (Military training videos appearing in my recommendations)

  • @TheVetusMores
    @TheVetusMores 3 года назад +1

    Peter Lorre. What a treat!

  • @alanharaldson4229
    @alanharaldson4229 7 лет назад +7

    Very interesting even if old

  • @dennismason3740
    @dennismason3740 Год назад +1

    The airplane factory that Al worked in was full of Double-Wasp engines, so funny. Pratt/Whitney engines powered more American planes than any other.

  • @thomasciarlariello3228
    @thomasciarlariello3228 Год назад +2

    1935 to 1945 was mythologized as some romantic adventure age.

  • @alansteel
    @alansteel Год назад +1

    Imagine going back in time and telling the guys who made this that one day we'd be watching this training video for entertainment and the signal is coming from outer space. Oh and the people who are the enemies are now your allies.

  • @lilmike2710
    @lilmike2710 3 года назад +6

    This was nothing more than a sneaky ciggarette advertisement

  • @peacejoy1396
    @peacejoy1396 3 года назад +14

    Now I know how to be a Spy now!!!

  • @davidstrohl
    @davidstrohl 4 года назад +34

    Well, it’s dated and dumbed-down, but there’s still good tradecraft being taught here.

  • @jonatanboy
    @jonatanboy Год назад +1

    I can’t help But imagine this training would lead to agents instinctively repeating the words that their trainer kept saying.
    Scenario - Enemy Area General bursts in the door as agent is sleeping. EAG exclaims “WHAT IS YOUR NAME”….
    Agent startles, Wakes up and spews out “ Sanford! NO! You are Charles Santos!”
    😂 26:37

  • @barnabycat7002
    @barnabycat7002 2 года назад +5

    Be sure to whisper your thoughts. You never know who might be listening.

  • @dimamatat5548
    @dimamatat5548 6 месяцев назад

    The best part is that the superior of the agents apparently has psychic powers. He reads the agent's thoughts and provides feedback.

  • @KB-eb8dj
    @KB-eb8dj 3 года назад +2

    I want to become a smoker every time I watch these movies.

  • @knightscroftsquire-muldoon
    @knightscroftsquire-muldoon 2 года назад +3

    53:35
    I'm surprised they were able to use that kind of language in a film from 1944!

    • @skipads5141
      @skipads5141 Год назад +3

      When he wakes him up in bed and he says "Christ!" too.
      It was a training film, not a public release.

  • @tim9987
    @tim9987 2 года назад +1

    Nice to see John Ford here

  • @ElvenMans
    @ElvenMans 7 лет назад +9

    Tom & Jerry music, cool

  • @diopena6182
    @diopena6182 3 года назад +9

    One question. How do you know one of those guys attending "school", watching the film is not one of the enemy's undercover spy?

    • @d3203
      @d3203 3 года назад +3

      backgroundchecks. You question their environment and interrogate them.

    • @Jebu911
      @Jebu911 2 года назад +10

      Their cover will be blown when they ask where are you from and they say enemy area.

    • @llucllumador380
      @llucllumador380 Год назад

      you're bound to catch them whistling or whispering to themselves.

    • @Andytlp
      @Andytlp 10 месяцев назад

      Because they likely only took people in groups so someone had to know someone since they we're smol children and woudlve known if they had sus uncles or went out of country at some point.

  • @yogibeargaming795
    @yogibeargaming795 3 года назад +4

    I literally just watched the while thing not knowing it was over 1 hour long!! Lol

  • @mellinghedd267
    @mellinghedd267 3 года назад +3

    I'd honestly watch a whole movie about agent Al. Something like Smiley's People but less confusing

  • @ManInTheBigHat
    @ManInTheBigHat 2 года назад +1

    40:10 Adrian Brody's uncle got his first lucky break in this movie.