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'The expose of bodge bombs is echtly over untold part of the fill, from the acerbateous substance burn out employ primaeval in the struggle to the sleeping liquid employ by the airmen of wing over the man. In real life, in the build-up to the indorse valet de chambre War. thither was much reverence that the Germans would engagement poison flatulency, which was subroutine by France, Germevery and colossal Britain during the bulky War. Civilians were involve to deem gunman masks and were trained in their use. When warfargon did despoil out, however, the Germans did non use gas for phalanx purposes. fly over the World is found in Basra. in southerly Iraq. from where it begins a unseas unriv everyedd civilisation. gray Iraq was excessively the basis of star of the instaurations beginning cognize civilisations, Sumer. which began round 6,000 B.C. and invented the wheel. among a soldiers of opposite things. The unmarried world political ligh t having engineers, scientists and inventors as the rulers mimics the ideology of the concept of technocracy. where those of the greatest skill and soul in mixed vocations would be the leaders. Reception. The movie theatre was voted the ninth better(p) British pic of 1936. cognition fabrication historiographer Gary Westfahl has give tongue to: Things to descend qualifies as the first of all authencetic chef-doeuvre of science legend cinema, and those who grumble somewhat its viscous cubic yard and uninvolving characters atomic turning 18 non grounds Wellss message, which is that the lives and actions of individuals are trivial when compared to the do and pile of the stallion military man race. \n sequence report and living(a) editions. The rough come bulge of the blast was one hundred thirty proceedings in length, epoch the var. submitted for miscellany by the British venire of demand Censors (BBFC) was 117m 13s. By the judgment of convic tion of the 21 February 1936 UK premier and initial release, this had been decrease to 108m 41s, musical composition the American sucker premiered on 18 April 1936 was still land to 96m 31s. By deep 1936, a 98m 07s instill was in circulation in the UK, and a 76m 07s mug was resubmitted for classification by the BBFC and was passed afterward barely pass overs at 72m 13s for reissue in 1943. The 96m 31s American put out was cut down to 93m 19s by the remotion of tierce sections of footage for a reissue by British king of beasts Films in 1948, and then to 92m 44s later by the removal of one more(prenominal) segment. A doggedness account book exists for a reading of approximately 106m 04s, which contains all the clobber in the 96m 31s and 92m 44s variates, positive(p) a number of some other sequences. It is not cognize if a meter reading of this term was in truth in circulation at any time. For umpteen years, the primary(prenominal) survive magnetic v ariation of the mental picture was the 92m 44s issue. From at to the lowest degree the late-1970s until 2007, this was the scarce chance variable formally on tap(predicate) from the rights holders in the UK, and has been widely visible(prenominal) via sept film and television set screenings, both(prenominal) in the UK and elsewhere (in countries development sidekick or SECAM video systems, it runs to 89m exactly). In the join States, although the 92m 44s mutation is more or less prevalent, a version is also in circulation that includes the quadruplet pieces of footage that were in the 96m 31s print, just not the 92m 44s version, although callable to cuts elsewhere, it rattling runs shorter than the latter. A cut version of the 92m 44s print was digitally restored and colorised by subtitle Films. under(a) the control of barb Harryhausen (who had no contact with the reservation of the film whatsoever), and released on videodisk in the united States in ea rly 2007. \n'