December 7th (1941)

Note: this print runs 75 minutes against a recorded 34 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Walter Huston, Dana Andrews, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, George O'Brien, Harry Davenport, Hirohito, Irving Pichel

Directed by John Ford, Gregg Toland

December 7th is a 1943 propaganda documentary film produced by the US Navy and directed by Gregg Toland and John Ford, about the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the event which sparked the Pacific War and American involvement in World War II. Toland was also the film's cinematographer and co-writer. The original version of this film, with a running time of 82 minutes, was not released but was retained by the National Archives. An edited version of 32 minutes length, which removed a long introductory segment and a shorter epilogue, was given limited release to specific audiences but won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) in 1944. This is the only film Toland eve

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