Children of Japan

Wow.
Worst. Timing. Ever.
Release a friendly documentary about Japanese kids in the same year as Pearl Harbor.
Wow.

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Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 06, 2010
Category: Family | Foreign Customs | Documentaries | 1940s | Asia

Comments

so do you think they lived in hiroshima or nagasaki?

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 04/06/10 at 11:14 AM

Cecil Rose--I noted that copyright date too. But the source for the film labels it a 1941 release.

http://www.archive.org/details/Children1941

I have seen similar issues with Hollywood films: one date on the screen, but film actually released later--sometimes by several years, as we all know is the case with certain stinkers!

Posted by Paul on 04/07/10 at 01:14 PM

was that 'certain stinkers'one or the sequel 'certain stinkers certainly stink' :lol:

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 04/07/10 at 07:31 PM

sorry about the hiroshima or nagasaki crack, it was insensitive. i'm not really a fan of destruction at all. sometimes i don't think before i comment. :red:

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 04/07/10 at 07:36 PM

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