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Pub. Date
[1940]
Language
English
Description
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans were relocated to internment camps administered by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and the U.S. Department of Justice. The Crystal City facility in Texas was the largest one of these camps, with more than 3,300 residents at its peak in 1945. Although the U.S. government stressed that the detained Japanese Americans were well cared...
Pub. Date
[2010], c1942
Language
English
Description
This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Japanese in a relocation camp; Japanese-Americans training in the U.S. Army. 2. A wingless plane is tested; a Civil Air Patrol pilot spots a person lost in the mountains and a rescue party is dispatched to his aid. 3. A Quebec family celebrates a wedding anniversary. 4. Destroyers are constructed. 5. Planes bomb a "battleship" in New Mexico on a practice mission; Negro troops man a...
Pub. Date
[2010], c1943
Language
English
Description
Following the outbreak of the present war, it became necessary to transfer several thousand Japanese residents from the Pacific Coast to points in the American Interior. This Prelinger Archives film, an explanation of the World War II internment of people of Japanese descent living on the West Coast, "is an historical record of the operation, as carried out by the United States Army and the War Relocation Authority." Milton S. Eisenhower, director...
Pub. Date
[2010], c1944
Language
English
Description
Derided as "an early exercise in political damage control," this Prelinger Archives film puts a smiling face on a dark chapter of American history: the internment of people of Japanese descent living on the West Coast. Life in relocation centers is illustrated in a positive light, but today's viewers will likely draw a very different meaning. Called "a shocking film, and an important historical artifact.
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