Daitoa News (silent)

Description: Japanese newsreel celebrating their victories in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the attack on Pearl Harbor.

"Part 1 shows a Japanese fleet in the Pacific. Pilots enter their planes aboard aircraft carriers, take off, fly in formation, and bomb Pearl Harbor. Part 2, Japanese artillery, planes, and warships bombard Hong Kong; Japanese troops advance on the Kowloon peninsula, enter the city, and celebrate the victory. Shows wrecked British fortifications, British officers shaking hands with their captors, and Japanese officers riding horses through the streets."

NAID: 35995

Local ID: 111-M529-43

catalog.archives.gov/id/35995 accessed on 2023-10-11

Can states: ""DAITOA NEWS" 111-M-529-43J / B/W B-WIND FGM"

In titles on film "Nippon Eigasha" is written as "Nippon Eigasya"

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Subjects: 1940s,World War II,War

Tags: warships; Philippines; Hawaii; fighter jets; airplanes; aircraft carriers; Nippon Eigasya; Nippon Eigasha; intertitles; maps; bombing; people of color; people of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent; Japanese soldiers; aircraft carriers; U.S. Pacific Fleet Annihilated title; American War Losses title; filmed from airplane; aerials; smoke; Japanese-occupied Hong Kong

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Creator: Nippon Eigasha

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: The Archives Project

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: circa 1942; 1941-12

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Geographical Location: USA; Hawai'i; Hong Kong; China; Honolulu, O'ahu, Hawai'i; Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i

Genre/Form: military, newsreel

Language: eng

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: finegrain master

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

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Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 399