Information Management for Organizational Effectiveness
Wednesday, 29 Oct 2025 | Review of where we have been
And seeing how it fits to where we have been
Framing the movie - 12 O'clock High in terms of what we have covered until now
Next week, we will watch a movie about leadership and organizational challenge.
Today, we will frame the movie in terms of what we will have discussed this semester.
This movie, Memphis Belle, is factual, and the personnel in this movie are doing exactly the same things
as are many of the characters in 12 O'Clock High.
The movie 12 O'Clock High is fiction, but only barely.
Next week, we will watch another movie
An article in The Smithsonian discusses why the movie we will watch is useful:
The film was adapted by Sy Bartlett, Henry King, and Beirne Lay, Jr. from the 1948 novel, 12 O'Clock High, also by Bartlett and Lay.
This film was nominated for four Academy Awards and won two.
In 1998, Twelve O'Clock High was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress
as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".
Most of the drama is on the ground, inside command offices, officers' quarters, and briefing halls.
The climax of the picture takes place in a desk chair, not a cockpit.
It was shot in black and white with shadows so stark that it often resembles the noir detective films of the period
more than it does other war movies. You can almost smell the tobacco smoke.
You don't have to read these unless you wish to ...
Paolo Conte (born January 6, 1937) is an Italian singer, pianist, composer and lawyer
notable for his grainy, resonant voice, his colourful and dreamy compositions
(evocative of Italian and Mediterranean sounds, as well as of jazz music,
South American atmospheres and of French-language singers like Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens)
and his wistful, sometimes melancholic lyrics.
