movies_creation
American Movie Archives (美國電影檔案)
- Title
- Pearl Harbor (short version)
- Year
- 1942
- Abstract
- Non-narrated agitprop film made as a quick response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entry into World War II.
- Notes
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Produced: Handy (Jam) Organization
Sponsor: General Motors Public Relations
Run Time: 3:20
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W - Keyword
- World War II: Pearl Harbor;Propaganda;/;Propaganda;/
- Theme
- Axis aggression and atrocities 1937-1941
- Review
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A collection of clips from various newsreels emphasizing Axis aggression and civilian victims: Japanese bombing of China, The Blitz on London, The Spanish Civil War, execution of Chinese communists by Nationalist soldiers, French refugees, etc. Only one small clip is from the Pearl Harbor attack; a burning house at the end of the sequence.
(Reviewer: Mark Cassidy) - Location
- A/V room, 2/F