Overview
- Description
- Reel 1. Bombing of Pearl Harbor and the resultant damage. President Franklin Roosevelt delivers his war message to Congress. Wendell Willkie speaks for one world. German American Bund meets in Madison Square Garden for a "Pro-American Rally" on February 20, 1939; Fritz Kuhn addresses the crowd. Laborers fight at various strikes. Japanese troops invade Manchuria and China. Ambassador Shigemitsu.
- Film Title
-
The World at War
- Duration
- 00:10:32
- Date
-
Event:
1939 February 20-1941 December
Production: 1942
- Locale
-
New York, NY,
United States
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States Office of War Information
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Documentary.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Film Format
- Master
Master 4381 Digital: ProRes HD HQ 422 - b&w and color - HD
Master 4381 Digital: ProRes HD HQ 422 - b&w and color - HD
Master 4381 Digital: ProRes HD HQ 422 - b&w and color - HD
Master 4381 Digital: ProRes HD HQ 422 - b&w and color - HD
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- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- In process
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in February 2019.
- Note
- Distributed by the War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry. Copyright 1942.
Other credits:
Narrator: Paul Stewart
Editor: Gene Milford
Writer: Samuel Spewack - Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Source Archive Number: 208.145 R1
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:50:42
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