aviation film of the period. The film is now considered a "classic aviation and war film." The actual Raiders considered it a worthy tribute. Box-office According to MGM records, the film made $4,297,000 in the US and Canada and $1,950,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $1,382,000. Awards and honors In the 1945 Academy Awards, the Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo team of A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus and Warren Newcombe (photography) and Douglas Shearer (sound) won the Oscar for Best Special Effects. Robert Surtees, A.S.C. and Harold Rosson, A.S.C. were nominated in the category of Black and White Cinematography. American Film Institute lists: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies - Nominated AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains: Lt. Colonel James H. Doolittle - Nominated Hero AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers - Nominated In popular culture Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo star Van Johnson appeared in a 1970 commercial for Post Fortified Oat Flakes breakfast cereal on a set evoking an aircraft carrier flight deck with B-25s on board. He ended with the line that the cereal would "take me to Tokyo – and back!" Jefferson Airplane's second live album, Thirty Seconds Over Winterland (1973), and experimental rock band Pere Ubu's 1975 debut single, "30 Seconds Over Tokyo", are named after the film. The film The Purple Heart (1944) is a fictionalized account of the fates of American airmen from the Doolittle raid who are placed on trial in a Japanese court. The film Pearl Harbor (2001) includes a fictionalized version of the raid. The opening scene of the film Midway (1976) uses footage from Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo to launch the film's plot with the Doolittle Raid. In the Seinfeld season 3 episode "The Keys", Kramer mentions to Jerry that he is watching the film. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo inspired The Simpsons episode "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo". References Informational notes Citations Bibliography Dolan, Edward F. Jr. Hollywood Goes to War. London: Bison Books, 1985. . Glines, Carroll V. The Doolittle Raid: America's Daring First Strike Against Japan. New York: Orion Books, 1988. Harwick, Jack and Ed Schnepf. "A Viewer's Guide to Aviation Movies". The Making of the Great Aviation Films, General Aviation Series, Volume 2, 1989. Orriss, Bruce. When Hollywood Ruled the Skies: The Aviation Film Classics of World War II. Hawthorne, California: Aero Associates Inc., 1984. . External links The book Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo may be borrowed from the Internet Archive Official