WWII - 1943, USA Homefront: Japanese Relocation

WWII - 1943, USA Homefront: Japanese RelocationIntroductory titles re transfer of Japanese-Americans to internment camps . 20:27:56 Director of Relocation Authority Milton S. Eisenhower at desk, statement to camera & narrates. 20:29:02 Ext. houses in San Pedro near Los Angeles, air base & oil wells nearby. Naval ships; fishing boats in harbor, Japanese fishermen. Army officers at map; notice re Japanese evacuation put up. 20:30:35 Japanese families registering, doctor giving medical examination; filling out paperwork to lease or sell their property. 20:31:02 Loading household goods into moving vans; boarding special buses & waving goodbye. Lines of buses; cars on road in convoy. Empty Japanese shops w/ signs for lease or sale & boarded up. Guarded impounded fishing boats at dock. 20:32:04 Buses w/ displaced Japanese arrive for the wait at race tracks & fairgrounds. LS pan over Santa Anita Race Track barracks. Int. of huge canteen dining hall; church service in grandstand; kids walking w/ mother. High shot of men & women making camouflage nets for US army. Pan over barracks being built. Japanese boarding train & pulling out of station. Bus convoy pulling out & into camp on dusty road; passengers off bus & into building. Japanese nurses giving immunization shots. Sign: Americanization Classes - Advanced. College age women taking notes. Community meetings w/ civic award given, applause. Sign: Children’s Center. Woman pouring milk for young children, MCUs. 20:34:56 Group walking in front of barracks, nursery lathe house. Sign: Production Section Guayuule Experiment Plant. Weeding cuttings being grown as possible rubber replacement. 20:35:18 Damaged 20:35:41 Pan over barren farm field & canals. LS & extensive pan of camp at foot of mountains. “...only when circumstances permit the loyal American citizens once again to enjoy the freedom that we in this country cherish; and when the disloyal, we hope, have left this country for good. In the meantime we’re setting a standard for the rest of the world in the treatment of peoples who may have loyalties to an enemy nation. We are protecting ourselves without violating the principles of Christian Decency, & we won’t change this fundamental decency no matter what our enemies do...” WW2 Homefront Propaganda; Concentration Camps; Anti-Democracy; Imprisonment; 1940s; NOTE: Damage in source at 20:35:18 - 20:35:41.