Relocation of Nisei people in United States during World War 2. Japanese Americans arrive at the Manzanar relocation center (internment camp). Family members exit a bus. A young boy looking unsure as he observes the camp. New internees undergo medical examination. They participate in Americanization classes. They train themselves in self government. Block leaders are presented citations at a meeting. Japanese-American children internees are looked after in day care centers as men and women go to work. Young boys and girls seated at a table. Internees at Manzanar working in an experimental laboratory house for extracting rubber from guayule shrubs to increase rubber production during the war. Japanese American internees working in cultivating the guayule shrub. View of a project at the Parker camp where internees were working to irrigate desert land. View of sugar beet fields where internees could work. View of Manzanar war relocation center with mountains behind. War time propaganda narrator promotes the relocation centers as "setting a standard for the rest of the world in the treatment of people who may have loyalties to an enemy nation. We are protecting ourselves without violating the principles of Christian decency."
A Douglas DC-4 at an airfield in Santa Monica, California. Flight crew enters the aircraft. Pilot in the cockpit. Aircraft in flight. Flight crew at work during a test flight. Man sends messages over a wireless.
Trotters compete at Grand circuit meet in Goshen, New York. Horses compete on the track as crowds cheer. Mrs E Roland Harriman rides Calumet Erie after winning the race.
Participants of aquaplane race undergo test spins before the Catalina Mainland Classic in Hermosa Beach, California. Men practice on aquaplanes as motor boats pull them ahead. A man falls into the sea while practicing on an aquaplane (which resembles a monoski water ski, but larger).
Aerial view of warships from the U.S. Fleet, anchored in formation in San Francisco harbor. Change of scene to the bridge of the USS Houston, where President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Rear Admiral Claude C. Bloch watch as ships of the Fleet pass in Review. Aerial view of the fleet spread out with sun beginning to set.
Fire in an oil refinery, Wellsville, New York. Oil refinery burns as it catches fire. Wrecked refinery due to fire and smoke rises. A man looks at the damage caused by the fire. Fire killed four people and injured many others.
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