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Alien Roundup

Reel Number: 220817-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1942

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 05:00:01

TC Ends: 05:09:56

Duration: 00:09:55

USA - Alien Roundup ca 1942 Unedited footage - everyday life of Japanese-Americans: women shopping, Japanese schools, banks, offices, and a Shinto temple w/ American 8 Japanese flags at entrance - religious ceremonies. Japanese children carry & salute U.S. flag. Japanese Boy Scout troop & scout recruitment poster; a group of elders meeting; Japanese fishermen bringing in fish at harbor; US destroyers. 05:01:45 Policemen open & inspect suitcases by roadside while Japanese family wait in car; women pack their bags after inspection. Reload onto back of truck. 05:03:48 Japanese children & adults get off train under MP surveillance; passengers searched & queue up to register. 05:04:22 Woman & four small children at table being registered. Others searched; handbags inspected. 05:05:13 High angle of temporary internment camp / relocation center w/ horse barns. Views empty race track, grandstand. 05:09:09 Barred entrance. Horse statue. 05:09:31 Barracks w/ tarpaper exterior; mountains behind. WWII; WW2 Homefront; Ethnic; Concentration Camps; Note: Race tracks were used to round up Japanese-Americans before sending them to camps).

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