Espionage Target: You (1964). US Department of Defense. Held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Espionage Target: You
A Defense Department training film on the approach, the compromise and the hook, staged as short dramatic scenes.
- Year
- 1964
- Made by
- US Department of Defense
- Directed by
- No director credited
- Free to use because
- A work of the United States government — no copyright, anywhere
The note
The cold war's domestic anxiety, formalised into instruction. It plays as radio drama with a lesson attached, and the dramatised scenes — a bar, a favour, a photograph — are surprisingly well acted for a training reel. Federal work, no copyright.
Espionage Target: You, 1964. US Department of Defense. Directed by No director credited. This is the film’s soundtrack: narration, score and location sound, streamed from the Internet Archive’s master. No picture — the audio is the work. A work of the United States government, and therefore free of copyright anywhere it is used.
The soundtrack