Pattonville graduate produces History Channel documentary on Pearl Harbor

Scott Frawley, a 2007 Pattonville High School alumnus, will be able to add the title associate producer of a nationally aired documentary to his resume. Frawley, who graduated from New York’s Fordham University in May, served as the associate producer of the documentary “Pearl Harbor — 24 Hours Later,” which will air on the History Channel at 7 p.m. on Dec. 7, marking the 70th anniversary of the attack.

Produced by Emmy Award winning filmmaker Anthony Giacchino, the two-hour documentary provides an in-depth look at the first 24 hours after news of Japan’s attack on the U.S. in 1941 reached President Franklin Roosevelt. According to the History Channel’s description of the documentary, “This special gives a rare and surprising glimpse at the man behind the presidency and how he confronted the enormous challenge of transitioning the nation from peace to war.”

After graduating from Pattonville, Frawley attended Fordham University where he graduated with his bachelor’s degree in communications with a focus in film studies. He met Giacchino during his senior year at Fordham and has worked with him on multiple projects since.

In addition to his work with Giacchino on the Pearl Harbor documentary, Frawley assisted the filmmaker as the project coordinator of an exhibit for the Brecht Forum in New York. The exhibit, called “Letters to Another Century — The Triangle Fire Letter Project,” was a commemoration of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in March 1911. The exhibit featured letters that were mailed to the addresses of the 146 victims of the fire, with the intent that they will be returned, with the stamp on the envelope evoking the reality about the memory of the individuals lost in the fire, and, hopefully, erasing the victims’ anonymity.

Currently, Frawley and Giacchino are wrapping production on the DVD of special features for the upcoming Tom Cruise movie “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol.”

The documentary “Pearl Harbor — 24 Hours Later” will premier on the History Channel on Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. and air again that night at 11 p.m. and on Saturday, Dec. 10 at 4 p.m.

Frawley currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.