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The Battle of Midway

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The Battle of Midway	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The Battle of Midway is a 1942 short film (18 minutes) directed and partially shot by an uncredited John Ford.Despite being 47 years old at the time of Pearl Harbor, Ford was inducted into the US Navy and given the rank of commander. He was made head of the photographic unit for the Office of Strategic Services. In the middle of 1942 Ford was sent out to Midway atoll, consisting of two small islands in the central Pacific that were in use as a Navy base, one of the United States's most forward bases in the Pacific theater after the capture of Wake Island by the Japanese.Ford arrived at Midway under the impression that he was supposed to film a Day in the Life of sailors at a lonely Pacific outpost. At the beginning of June he was told something different: that the Japanese were advancing towards Midway, and an attack was imminent. On June 4, 1942, Ford and an assistant cameraman went to the roof of the power station at Midway and took live footage of the Japanese bombing raid on the island. The dramatic shots include a Japanese Zero spiraling into the ocean and a giant plume of smoke billowing up from the Midway airplane hanger after it was completely destroyed by a Japanese bomb. Another cameraman took footage of planes from an American aircraft carrier, the USS Hornet, taking off to attack the Japanese.note Unfortunately Ford missed the chance at even more dramatic footage by not having a cameraman aboard the USS Yorktown, which was bombed and eventually sunk by the Japanese.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Ford suffered a superficial shrapnel wound on his arm which got him a Purple Heart. The short won one of the first Oscars for "Best Documentary", the distinction between documentary features and documentary shorts not being made until later. note Although nothing in the documentary mentions it, the pilots lounging about on the Hornet were mostly from Torpedo Squadron 8. Their flight wing attacked the Japanese without fighter escort and every single plane was shot down, with only one survivor from thirty officers and gunners.Alfred Newman composed the music.
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The Battle of Midway / int_3e9403d8	comment	Fighter-Launching Sequence: Planes taking off from Midway atoll (the airstrip on Midway was what made it important), and from the USS Hornet.
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The Battle of Midway / int_48dfb7e4	type	Stock Sound Effects
The Battle of Midway / int_48dfb7e4	comment	Stock Sound Effects: Ford had no sound recording equipment. While the footage of bombs falling and planes crashing on and around Midway is authentic, all the combat audio was added in later.
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The Battle of Midway / int_52989fee	comment	Narrator: Along with a conventional narrator track, Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, and Donald Crisp give voiceovers in character. They identify one American pilot, and follow that up by narrating footage of his mom and dad and little sister back home.
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The Battle of Midway / int_67d722d8	comment	A Storm Is Coming: As the camera points to a picturesque setting sun while the narration explains that Midway has received intelligence of an impending Japanese attack, rumbling that could be either thunder or falling bombs is heard.
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The Battle of Midway / int_72757e0d	type	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer
The Battle of Midway / int_72757e0d	comment	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: The color guard at Midway goes out at 0800 on June 4 to raise the flag, as they do every day. With Japanese bombs raining down all around them. As the flag goes up the pole the narrator says "Yes. This really happened."
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The Battle of Midway / int_8ace85ef	comment	Audience Surrogate: In addition to the main narration traffic, some of John Ford's regular actors, including Henry Fonda, can be heard in character as average Americans chatting about the planes and the pilots.
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The Battle of Midway / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Ends with a funeral at sea for servicemen killed in the Japanese attack.
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The Battle of Midway / int_d76f6f31	type	Obligatory War Crime Scene
The Battle of Midway / int_d76f6f31	comment	Obligatory War-Crime Scene: A scene after the battle shows the bombed and burnt-out hospital on the atoll, with a Red Cross marker on the collapsed roof, a sign "that the enemy was bound to respect." Since this is a propaganda film, no one points out that even if the Japanese were trying to avoid bombing the hospital, bombing that precise was impossible when attacking a target as small as Midway atoll.
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