National Film Vault

FILM NOTES

Forrest Gump was released by Paramount Pictures in July 1994, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks in the title role. The film became one of the defining cultural touchstones of its decade, winning six Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Blending American history with intimate personal narrative, it remains among the most commercially successful and widely recognized films of the 1990s, cementing Hanks as one of Hollywood's foremost leading men.

This cell presents three consecutive frames from a single interior shot featuring Forrest Gump in what appears to be a greeting or meeting moment. The sequential nature of the frames offers a rare glimpse into the film's rhythm at the strip level, with a frame marker visible at the top and the optical sound track running along the bottom edge.