National Film Vault

FILM NOTES

Forrest Gump was released by Paramount Pictures in July 1994, directed by Robert Zemeckis and produced by Wendy Finerman. The film swept the Academy Awards that year, taking Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Tom Hanks. Adapted from Winston Groom's novel, it became one of the defining American films of the decade, weaving a fictional everyman through decades of real historical events using groundbreaking visual effects compositing.

This three-frame run captures Forrest Gump Meets President Lyndon B. Johnson, set during the 1966 Medal of Honor sequence. Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump stands opposite the President, with LBJ leaning in toward him across all three consecutive frames. The on-screen year marker 1966 is visible throughout, anchoring the moment precisely within the film's episodic historical timeline.