Technology in House on 92nd Street

The use of technology in The House of 92nd Street is varied and interesting The movie helps keep the viewer interested and create a sense that they are uncovering evidence along with the characters. In The House of 92nd Street, the FBI uses a chemical to uncover the invisible writing on the letters that are in code. Showing the viewer this creates interest and a need to figure out what the letter says. This keeps the audience watching the movie and rooting for the good guys to figure out the schemes of the bad guys. The other pieces of technology used in The House are the photographic chambers they use to capture the image of the letters they discover and the ability to change around information in order to confuse the enemy. But while these keep the audience invested in the movie, they do show that they struggle with some things such as the identity of the head of the nazi ring and how a man is smuggling information out of a laboratory.
The best “technology” of the movie is the human mind. They are able to figure out that the man smuggling information out of the laboratory has an extraordinary memory that enables him to remember all the experiments they performed. This is seen as amazing because of the complicated formulas of the experiments that he runs. The film shows the audience the difficult situations the FBI have and how they are able to figure it out. The FBI are able to beat a man with photographic memory and save the day.