Premiere - Tora-Tora-Tora

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2158

Date Released

12 Oct 1970

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Premiere - Tora Tora Tora. DESCRIPTION: A star-studded premiere at the Leicester Square Theatre for the 20th Century Fox film Tora-Tora-Tora. A brilliant reconstruction of the devastating Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, in December, 1941, the film took four years to make. It considers the surprise attack from both the American and Japanese points of view. Among the first night guests - the Japanese Ambassador in London; the man who led the Japanese air attack, and British Service chiefs. SHOTLIST: GV Leicester Square Theatre advertisement TORA TORA TORA, crowd on f/g. CU 3 quick shots TORA TORA TORA. AS large poster depicting attack. SV ditto. SV pan exterior Japanese Ambassador Morio Yukawa & wife arrive. SV exterior group of sailors from HMS Dido with pin up girl Jean Harrington. SCU sailors pan to girl. GV people enter cinema. CU pan people enter. SV interior Percy Livingstone arrives pan to David Raphael and pan back to Livingstone. SV Mitsuo Fuchida pilot who led attack with wife. CU Fuchida pan to wife. SV Hayley Mills. SV Ernie Wise greeted by woman. SV Jeremy Kemp. GV Tony Curtis and wife. CU Percy Livingstone pan to Mrs Livingstone pan to Raphael, SV Richard Fleischer (Director). CU ditto. SV Fleischer talks to Curtis & to others. SV poster depicting battle. CU poster plane bombs ship. Library sequence of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour (library film).

Keywords

Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Mass media; Entertainment and leisure; Aviation; War damage; Cinema; Local government; Navy; Performing arts; Military; Religion and belief

Locations

London; United Kingdom

Card file number

96435

Credits:

Camera: Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Reginald William Smith

Length of story (in feet)

261

Story extras:

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