     Maps feature heavily, but the central spatial machinery connecting places in the film is the sending of postcards:       Cléo de 5 à 7 (1961)  Jacquot de Nantes (1991)            
The film announces a journey from Geneva to Algeria that is never undertaken. Instead it concludes with a movement from the old centre of Geneva to the city's new suburbs.
These maps in the post office bear little relation to these journeys. 281/ L’Evènement le plus important depuis que l’homme a marché sur la lune (Jacques Demy 1973)13/1/2012                                 Where the message of an animated map is not self-explnatory, Biggar and Mclaren add a slogan:  
Firstly shown in illustration of the purpose and capacities of Colossus, the US super-computer, maps in big control rooms become the site of the film's action when Colossus and Guardian, the Soviet super-computer, take control: 
All the sophisticated cartography is on the US side. The Soviets appear to have just one small map at the back of the room, which nobody looks at: 
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