Major events of the year 1957. Aerial view of a town in shambles after hurricane Audrey hit the area killing 300 people in Louisiana, United States. Deserted town, houses submerged in water as a result of the hurricane. The destroyed town of Cameron. A man in a field submerged in water, wreckage on ground. Women and children outside their houses.
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."
Farm life in Kentucky, USA. A farmer inspects a Scythe and Cradle in his hands at a field in Kentucky, United States. The farmer cuts grass with the scythe and cradle. Other farmers make bunch of grass. Farmers have others tools in their hands like scythes and forks in their hands. A farm house in the background.
Panoramic view of a mountain valley in Kentucky, United States. Water stream rushes down from the mountains. A man looks at the flowing stream of water.
Life of townsmen in Kentucky, United States. Large group of people gathered at place. Cars parked. Trucks and cars loaded with people arrive for town meeting. View of a valley. Mountains in the background.
Workers break rock slabs with hammer and chisel at Norris Dam site in Tennessee, United States. Chisels placed between two layers of rocks are hammered by the workers.
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