History Animation / FiringRange

* OffModel: Weird animation shifts are present, due to early unpracticed use of photographica technique.

* UncannyValley: The photographica animation technique made the characters have realistic faces of movie stars at the time. It gives a very creepy effect.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It is never revealed what nation's army the scientist is producing weapons for. But there are clues, such as the 1970s technology, the talk of "the colonies", battles in Africa that involved paratroopers, and the fact that the island is in Melanesia, that suggest that they are French. With the Israeli uniforms, a Soviet-looking APC and the tank's design in the film clearly based on the American SPG, it's clearly an abstract compilation of militaristic motifs. The logo on the characters' uniforms is clearly an {{expy}} of the [[TakeThat NATO compass rose]].

* GetItOverWith: The younger officer realises he can stay alive as long as he remains within the dead zone where the tank gun can't lower enough to kill him. First the tank tries to run over it with the caterpillar tracks, but he's hiding in a slit trench. It then reverses too fast for him to catch up, so eventually the officer collapses in exhaustion and calls on the tank to finish him. He then breaks down in laughter realising that [[ImNotAfraidOfYou because he's no longer afraid of dying]] the tank won't attack. [[ExplainExplainOhCrap Until he remembers his earlier fear]] of being crushed by the tracks...

* TheEmpath- The machine will fire when it senses fear and hostility.

* SuperWeaponSurprise: After the everyone's dead the natives return to the island where the tank remains half buried in the sand. When a destroyer turns up to bombard the island, the tank activates and drops a shell right into its missile bay.

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* AuthorTract
* BestServedCold

* ConspicuouslyLightPatch: Averted.
* DeadlyDodging
* DreamSequence

* EmotionBomb

* GoneHorriblyRight
* GreyAndGrayMorality

* RealIsBrown
* {{Revenge}}
* SceneryPorn

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture

* WeaponOfMassDestruction
* WarIsHell

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It is never revealed what nation's army the scientist is producing weapons for. But there are clues, such as the 1970s technology, the talk of "the colonies", battles in Africa that involved paratroopers, and the fact that the island is in Polynesia, that suggest that they are French. With the Israeli uniforms, a Soviet-looking APC and the tank's design in the film clearly based on the American SPG, it's clearly an abstract compilation of militaristic motifs. The logo on the characters' uniforms is clearly an {{expy}} of the [[TakeThat NATO compass rose]].

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It is never revealed what nation's army the scientist is producing weapons for. But there are clues, such as the 1970s technology, the talk of "the colonies", battles in Africa that involved paratroopers, and the fact that the island is in Polynesia, that suggest that they are French.
** With the Israeli uniforms and the tank's design in the film clearly based on the American SPG, it's clearly an abstract compilation of militaristic motifs.
** And the logo on their uniforms is cleraly an expy of the [[TakeThat NATO compass rose]].

FiringRange (Russian: Полигон ''Polygon'') is a 1977 short Soviet ScienceFiction animated film by Anatoly Petrov. The plot is based on an anti-war short story by Sever Gansovsky. An inventor has made a tank that reads minds and can sense the fear and hostility someone in danger has- and only will fire if it senses it. He sells it to the generals that drafted his son into the war. The son died, and was awarded a posthumous medal. The inventor planned to let the machine kill the generals, as he knew they feared their own weapons. The inventor is happy to have his revenge, but that's never been what his son wanted. The machine turns on him when he realizes in fear that getting revenge is not what he should have done.