Gregg Tolands und John Fords Dokudrama “December 7th” [USA 1943] ist bei Youtube zu sehen. 1944 wurde der Film im Bereich “Best Documentary, Short Subject” ausgezeichnet, allerdings die 20-minütige Schnittfassung. Bei Youtube hingegen ist die vollständige Version mit einer Laufzeit von ca. 81 Minuten online gestellt worden.

[via: MUBI]

Aus dem Artikel “Ford Till ’47″ von Ted Gallagher auf Senses of Cinema:

Field Photo productions won best-documentary Oscars two years in a row, Midway and December 7th (1943).The latter, mostly directed by Gregg Toland, initially followed White House directives and made a case for interning the 160,000 Japanese-Americans living in Hawaii, as was being done with the 110,000 Japanese-Americans living on the west coast.

Instead it was decided to leave the Hawaiians alone, after the military governor, General Delos Emmons, supported by the community, resisted Washington’s orders. Accordingly, some 50 minutes of December 7th were deleted, now Japanese-American loyalty is stressed, and the portion that remained was exhibited not in theatres but in factories. Virtually all the footage of the Pearl Harbor attack was staged at Fox. (All prior accounts of December 7th’s history, including my own, have missed this story completely. Hawaii’s successful defiance of Roosevelt is a deeply forgotten event in American history – not surprisingly.)