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A fact from Target for Tonight appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 January 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Target for Tonight was a 1941 documentary filmed, acted, and written by the Royal Air Force?

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I plan to watch this film sometime this week, so hold off on your AFDs, please. Userpie 02:58, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I watched the film and took notes. I'll be doing it when I can. Userpie 00:01, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Got my notes up, i plan to do some screen captures. Userpie 00:52, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wow! Just 5 minutes to put the article up on DYK and and its up there and I've attracted some other editors. First chance I get, screen captures coming up. Userpie 17:40, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia

I've removed the 'Trivia' section (which I originally added) and had a go at working the information (along with some additional) into the text. Ian Dunster 14:20, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

humorous to note that the "original 1942 poster" image shows a bunch of british single-engine "bombers" (spitfires with gun turrets?) and the modern "deluxe edition" dvd cover on the other side of the page features the image of an american b-17 for this raf-based movie. guess one can't be two hard on cnn, etc. who today label every u.s. warship as a battleship. Jmdeur (talk) 20:13, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:TargetforTonightDVD.jpg

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BetacommandBot 22:27, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Documentary vs. Propaganda

The film is described in the lede as a documentary film but in reality it was a government propaganda film. I've just come to this article, and while I'm making some minor or otherwise uncontroversial changes, before labeling the film as propaganda (even though that's what it is), I wanted to ensure that there is consensus for properly describing these state-produced WW2 movies... Martin Shaw via the BBC 2 in an actual documentary on Operation Jericho describes the movie thusly:

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Target for Tonight was a government propaganda film showing a raid through the eyes of a fictional bomber crew in the plane "F" for 'Freddie'.

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— Martin Shaw, "Operation Jericho". BBC Two. October 23, 2011.

I don't have any issue with the film or criticism of it, per se, just want to make sure that it's described accurately in this article. So...? I'll make the edit on my own if I don't hear anything back from anyone, unless someone makes the change before I do. Thanks Az x2 05:04, 13 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see that the film has to be either a documentary or a propaganda film - it can quite comfortably be both. One notable source, the BFI categorises its genre as 'Genre: Documentaries / Government sponsored films' (see http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b69d85fc3). Academics Aldgate and Richards (see Britain can take it: British cinema in the Second World War) also call it a documentary. IxK85 (talk) 11:30, 13 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The film isn't really a documentary as-such, it's more of a general entertainment film, however it was filmed on an RAF station with serving RAF crews so it's really a mixture of entertainment with some propaganda and documentary thrown-in as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.7.147.13 (talk) 19:46, 25 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]