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Children dresses in colorful costumes participate in a children's parade in Ocean City, New Jersey.

A children's parade in Ocean City, New Jersey. Children dressed in costumes for a parade down the boardwalk. Young girls dressed in gowns as they march. A boy dressed as one half bride and one half groom. A girl carries a cat along with her. A baby in a decorated carriage with the winning trophy. A man carries a sleeping baby in his arms.

Date: 1939, August 23
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042797
Swedish Liner M.S. Gripsholm prepares to depart Jersey City, New Jersey, to repatriate Japanese Nationals and Issei to Japan during World War II

Picture begins showing workmen using crane and cable to lower a bulkhead support into the cargo hold ot the Swedish ocean liner M.S. Gripsholm as it prepares for departure from Jersey City, New Jersey, to repatriate Japanese Nationals and Issei to Japan in World War 2. View from above of the men sorting large boxes containing passengers' property. Three small Japanese boys are seen on deck, looking at something in hand of the biggest of them. They walk away and smile when they see the camera filming them. Members of the ship's crew examine the boxes in the cargo hold, and fasten steel straps on a box without them. A Japanese official dressed all in white converses with several Japanese men on deck. View from rear of a passenger at the ship's railing looking at the Manhattan, New York City skyline across the Hudson River from Jersey City. The Swedish flag billows in the breeze nearby. Tugboats ply the river. Views of fresh fish provisions in large refrigerator locker. Crew member holds one up for the camera.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058285
Swedish ocean liner M.S. Gripsholm departs Jersey City, New Jersey, carrying Japanese Nationals and Issei (First generation Japanese) being repatriated to Japan during World War II

Opening scene shows deck of the Swedish ocean liner M.S. Gripsholm, as it is departing Jersey City, New Jersey, with Japanese Nationals and Issei (First generation Japanese) aboard, who are being repatriated from the United States to Japan, during World War 2. The Swedish First Mate is seen on deck speaking with two Red Cross women dressed in white. The Swedish flag is seen in the background. A very small Japanese boy squats on the deck and watches several Lehigh Valley Railroad barges passing nearby, including one containing a house. Glimpse of the Gripsholm's Captain and a sailor on deck. Japanese women walk about on the deck and join other passengers and some crew who are looking across the Hudson River at the Manhattan, New York City skyline.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058281
J.Edgar Hoover describes the problem of enemy agents and Nazi sympathizers in the United States in 1940.

Director of the U.S Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), J.Edgar Hoover, addresses Americans in military service in 1940. He speaks about enemy agents sent to the United States to undermine the war effort. Scene shifts to a 1940 nighttime view of New York City with lights on in its buildings. Sound of Benny Goodman's orchestra in background. Glimpse of water displays at the New York World's Fair. Brooklyn Dodgers Baseball team playing a game at Ebbets Field. A large field of wheat being harvested by a mechanical reaper, in an American western state. American soldiers putting on civilian clothes for weekend passes. Views of various American cities and towns with cars driving on parkways, shoppers and pedestrians walking in business districts. Closeup of a German agent, ostensibly being apprehended while beaming information to Germany via shortwave radio. German documents are on his desk. A submarine periscope tracks across surface of water. A torpedo races through the water leaving a trail of bubbles. An American ship, ostensibly being torpedoed in the Caribbean. Letters being mailed to so-called "mail drops" in Spain and South America. An intercepted letter with military information being highlighted. A brick house, outside Los Angeles, where an unidentified man is seen, whom narrator (J.Edgar Hoover) describes as " This self-appointed Dictator, who set himself up in the business of promoting Nazism." A picture of Adolf Hitler is seen on his wall. Near Chicago, a wooden sign reads, "Camp Hindenburg., Two miles." American Nazi youth are seen parading there. A newspaper shows a picture of Nazi youth at Camp Nordland, in New Jersey where young American Nazi girls are seen parading. In Yaphank, on long Island, New York, American Nazis are seen parading. The head of the German-American Bund, Fritz Kuhn, is seen at an outdoor podium giving a speech, while surrounded and guarded by uniformed Bund members. He is enthusiastically applauded by members of the audience. Several women with babies in carriages, cross at a corner in New York City. Some receive notices being passed out by a young man, announcing a "Mass Demonstration for true Americans" (to be held at Madison Square Garden). A swastika appears on each notice. View from a high point overlooking a crowd of 22 thousand American Nazis gathered in Madison Square Garden, on Feb. 20, 1939. An honor guard parades as drummers play from the stage. A mass of men holding American flags, and one holding a banner showing a swastika and words in German. Audience members all render the Nazi salute and shout "Heil." Files in the FBI offices labeled "German Agents." The file of Walter Kappe, one of the leaders of the Chicago Free Society of Teutonia and German American Bund is shown. Narrator, Hoover, says, " he was a Lieutenant in the German Army and the Leader of German sabotage in the United States." View of a vast array of desks and files in the FBI where men and women work on fingerprints. A man projects fingerprints on a screen, as Hoover speaks of the files revealing that "innocent appearing persons, applying for work in United States war plants, had been convicted of espionage in the last world war."Two men look over an FBI chart showing the location of every key spy and mail drop in North and South America

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054485
Japanese Nationals and Issei, with families, board the Swedish ocean liner M.S. Gripsholm at Jersey City, New Jersey, for repatriation to Japan, in World War II

Film starts showing the Swedish ocean liner M.S. Gripsholm, docked at Jersey City, New Jersey, in World War 2. Some Ship's officers and crew are on deck and two armed Sailors stand on either side where the ramp meets the ship's deck. Two uniformed policeman come up the boarding ramp carrying a person on a littter. Ship's officer directs them where to take that person. Next, Japanese Nationals and Issei with their families begin boarding. Ship's officer and a sailor direct them where to go. Many boarding have small children. A ship's officer and a sailor carry another person aboard on a litter. A woman alone breezes past the guards. More families with small children board. An ambulatory, disabled , young Japanese woman is helped aboard by a man and a nurse. Two nurses help another woman board. Scene shifts to the pier where U.S. customs officials check baggage being brought aboard the ship and check identifications of passengers who will board. Next, a ship's doctor is seen attending a young girl in the ship's infirmary. He checks her vital signs. Then a Red Cross nurse enters and takes the patient's temperature and pulse rate.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058283
Japanese businessmen and officials as well as sick or disabled persons are the first to board the Swedish Ocean Liner, M.S. Gripsholm at Jersey City, New Jersey, for repatriation to Japan in World War II

Japanese Nationals and Issei, with families, arrive by bus at Jersey City, New Jersey, to board Swedish ocean liner M.S. Gripsholm for repatriation to Japan, in World War 2. View of passengers being processed at Customs area of the port. From that point, on, the file shows dozens of Japanese men, the first to board, coming up the gangplank to the ship's deck. Most of them are wearing business suits. Two armed U.S. Navy sailors guard the boarding point. Closeup of one Japanese man standing on the deck. A uniformed policemen boards, carrying a Japanese woman over his shoulder A nurse follows carrying something in her arms. She and another nurse then head toward the area where the woman had been taken. Another Japanese woman is helped aboard by two Red Cross women. Two uniformed policemen carry a passenger on a litter, aboard.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058284
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