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An American medical officer talks about the experiences at a Japanese prison camp in Honshu, Japan during World War II.

American prisoners of war being interviewed at a Japanese prison camp in Honshu, Japan after World War II. A U.S. officer interviews a medical officer who has been liberated from a Japanese prison camp. The medic says that he is from San Antonio, Texas. He talks about his early days. He says that he came to the Philippines on November 3, 1940. He discusses the difficulties faced by the medical officers at the prison camp. He narrates an incident where a soldier developed an infection in his foot and he lost nearly 20-30 kilos of weight. The medical officer also talks about the scarcity of medical supplies at the prison camp. He states that many men died due to malnutrition at the camp.

Date: 1945, September 12
Duration: 4 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059130
American prisoners narrate their experiences of the Bataan Death March after being released from a prison in the Philippines.

United States prisoners after being released from a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines during World War II. American soldiers after being released from the Japanese prison camp. The soldiers loaded in carts. Trucks outside a building. A crippled soldier. The soldiers lying in beds. Two American prisoners introduce themselves and share their experiences about their life at the Japanese prison camp. The first soldier talks about the Bataan Death March to San Fernando from where the prisoners were taken to a prison camp. He says that the captured soldiers were made to march to San Fernando for 3 days and 3 nights and that the prisoners were not provided any food or water. He says that nearly 150 men out of 800 lost their lives during the march. Sergeant Daniel Smith narrates how the Japanese tortured the American soldiers at the prison camp.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059188
African American students gain knowledge of medicine, economics, chemistry at Prairie View College and Howard University in the United States (WW2)

African American colleges in the United States during World War II. College curricula adjusts to war needs as they prepare students for various military and civilian occupations including war material production at factories and manufacturing. A sign reads ' Prairie View College' (Present day Prairie View A&M University, 100 University Dr, Prairie View, TX 77446) in Prairie View, Waller County, Texas. College campus with students milling about. Students at an agriculture class learn to maintain farm equipment, animal husbandry. African American students work in forges and machine shops making vital parts for the war effort in World War 2. They work on machines helping to meet war production worker manpower requirements. A building at the Howard University (2400 6th St NW, Washington, DC 20059) in Washington DC. Students in a mechanical design class learn to make designs of tanks, guns, and other war equipment. Students in a meteorological class study celestial navigation to guide airplanes. Students in a laboratory study the chemistry of a powder. At Howard University medical school students being taught the use the gravity of blood plasma in the battlefield by noted pioneer in blood plasma, Charles R. Drew. At the Howard University College of Liberal Arts, students learn the economics of war. An African American professor teaches a class on Industrial Accounting.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059204
After solving problems related to housing, war production goes up at a shipyard in Mobile, Alabama in World War 2.

War industry leads to problems in Mobile, Alabama during World War II. A large number of people gathered outside the Personnel Office in Mobile. Congress provides 2 million dollars for housing of war workers (building tanks, guns, ships and other war material in factories, manufacturing plants, and shipyards for the war effort). Shows racially segregated housing and facilities for African American workers versus white workers. Views of a cleared slum area where African Americans had been living been living in poor quality homes before the war. Shortage of housing is addressed with new housing for African American war workers, "Certified Colored War Workers". African American children play and eat at a nursery. Dormitory units for single war workers equipped with gymnasium and other basic facilities. Government owned trailers built by the Maritime Commission near a ship yard. The problem of providing a day nursery is undertaken. Modern permanent homes for war workers who can afford them. After meeting the problems like housing and sanitation, production goes up at the ship yard. A new ship being launched at the ship yard. A sign on the ship reads ' Cedar Mills'.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059208
Life of the students of Antioch College as they pursue work-study jobs in New York City.

Various courses at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Antioch College building. A farm in a countryside and a busy street in a town. Arthur Morgan who introduced the work-study program which aims at making education meaningful. Students and their personal faculty advisers discuss job opportunities. The students circulate between work and job four times a year. Two students hold a job alternately. The students of the college work as typists, accountants to ensure inter penetration of business in their lives. Low angle camera view of college student at busy roadside waiting for bus, as 1940's cars and other vehicles race by. Various accounting and clerical jobs and mechanical machines including typewriters, paper, and money counting devices. A sign on a board reads ' Dollar Day'. A student works in a clothing store in New York. Girls seated around a table on a New York City high rise or skyscraper building rooftop after their work shift, smoking and relaxing. Feet of a girl as she rests them. View of sculpture and fountain at Rockefeller Center. A student of Antioch College works in a NBC broadcast studio as a guide, and he is shown giving a tour to visitors who want to learn about radio broadcasting. The students work in consumer co-operatives, publishing company. A student works as an executive in a stationery concern in Massachusetts. The students work in a newspaper establishment, where reporters and journalists are shown working on stories in a newsroom. A student looking after a police beat interviews a police officer. Students also take up jobs in the field of social sciences as they study change of thought in the society and the circumstances and events that lead to poverty and crime.

Date: 1942
Duration: 4 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059210
Students of Antioch College learn practical lessons in child study and child care in the United States.

Students of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio take up various courses and on the job training to learn skills. A college student girl looks after a young child and helps him to put on a Native American Indian costume during play time. A day nursery in Cleveland Ohio where children play around a table and a young boy smiles while he finger paints. Students working at the Sigma Gamma Hospital in Detroit (also called Memorial Orthopedic Hospital, and later St. John North Shores Hospital) tend and treat children suffering from paralysis from polio. A young woman assists a boy in removing his leg braces. She then carries him to an indoor swimming pool and gently sets him down in the water, where the two of them play with a toy boat. Next scene shows a boys' club in Dayton, Ohio where young boys play table tennis (ping pong) and others look on. Students of Antioch College supervise athletics near Chicago, as a group of young women college students practice hand stands and . At the college the students gain first hand experience in child study. A woman at the Bells Research Institute of Antioch College works with a boy who is disabled (possibly polio). Girls look after children and do case work for children in need.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059211