{{short description|1976 film}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox film | name = Number Our Days | image = | caption = | director = Lynne Littman | producer = Lynne Littman<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owqQ10kdwk4 Documentary Winners: 1977 Oscars]</ref> | writer = Lynne Littman<br>Barbara Myerhoff | narrator = | starring = Harry Asimow | cinematography = Neil Reichline | editing = Lewis Teague | studio = KCET | distributor = | released = {{film date|1976}} | runtime = 28 minutes | country = United States | language = English }}
'''''Number Our Days''''' is a 1976 American short documentary film about a community of elderly Jews in Venice, California. It was directed by Lynne Littman and aired on KCET's news show ''28 Tonight''.<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = New York : Crowell| isbn = 978-0-690-01740-3| last = Barrett| first = Marvin| title = Rich news, poor news| accessdate = May 1, 2021| date = 1978| url = https://archive.org/details/richnewspoornews0000barr|page=129}}</ref> The Academy Film Archive preserved ''Number Our Days'' in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|title=Preserved Projects|url=http://www.oscars.org/academy-film-archive/preserved-projects?title=number+our+days&filmmaker=&category=All&collection=All|website=Academy Film Archive}}</ref>
==Reception and legacy== Lee Margulies of the ''Los Angeles Times'' called ''Number Our Days'' "beautiful" and "a very human film, full of expressive faces and heartfelt emotion. It is full of compassion but never pity."<ref>{{Cite news| issn = 0458-3035| pages = –13| last = Margulies| first = Lee| title = Venice Jews in TV Documentary| work = Los Angeles Times (1923-1995)| location = Los Angeles, Calif., United States| accessdate = May 1, 2021| date = October 4, 1976| url = http://www.proquest.com/docview/158043043/abstract/326DDAB150CF494BPQ/4}}</ref> John J. O'Connor of ''The New York Times'' wrote that ''Number Our Days'' was "a moving portrait of loneliness, pride, humor, bitterness and dignity".<ref>{{Cite news| issn = 0362-4331| last = O'Connor| first = John J.| title = TV: Moving Study of the Elderly| work = The New York Times| accessdate = May 1, 2021| date = May 10, 1977| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1977/05/10/archives/tv-moving-study-of-the-elderly-number-our-days-on-channel-13.html}}</ref>
''Number Our Days'' won an Oscar at the 49th Academy Awards, held in 1977, for Documentary Short Subject.<ref name="NY Times">{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/300412/Number-Our-Days/details |title=New York Times: Number Our Days |access-date=May 27, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520034406/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/300412/Number-Our-Days/details |archive-date=May 20, 2011 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide |date=2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Oscars1977">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1977 |title=The 49th Academy Awards (1977) Nominees and Winners |access-date=June 12, 2019|work=oscars.org}}</ref> ''Number Our Days'' was cited when ''28 Tonight'' won an Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award in 1978.<ref>[https://dupont.org/1970s-archive 1970s Archive – duPont-Columbia Awards]</ref>
It was made available on the Blu-ray edition of Littman's sole 1983 feature ''Testament'' by The Criterion Collection<ref>[https://www.criterion.com/films/34202-testament The Criterion Collection]</ref> March 17, 2026.
==Cast== * Harry Asimow as Himself (archive footage) * Barbara Myerhoff as Herself * Lynne Littman as Herself (voice) (uncredited) * Eddie Gurnick as band leader
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==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0074987|title=Number Our Days}} *[https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_526-k649p2xc5m ''Number Our Days''] at the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
{{Academy Award Best Documentary Short |state=collapsed}}
Category:1976 films Category:1976 short documentary films Category:1976 independent films Category:American short documentary films Category:Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners Category:American independent films Category:Jews and Judaism in California Category:Documentary films about old age in the United States Category:Films shot in Venice, Los Angeles Category:Documentary films about Jews and Judaism in the United States Category:1976 English-language films Category:1976 American films Category:English-language short documentary films Category:English-language independent films