Documentary titled, 'Barriers and Passes' on the life of Japanese-Americans living in United States during World War II. View of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. Ships underway in harbor and Ferry Terminal of San Francisco seen. Skyscrapers, busy city streets and heavy vehicular traffic in city of San Francisco. Japanese-American children exit the Japanese Church of Christ. Three children pose with a banner reading, 'Japanese Church of Christ'. Children make handicrafts. Japanese-American students read in a library. Japanese-American men and women pose beside a movie camera. An American soldiers checks papers of a Japanese-American couple.
A Greyhound passenger bus traveling to a destination in the United States. The tourist bus stops in Virginia. View of the Natural Bridge in Virginia, USA. A water stream flows under the bridge.
View of a tribal dance by Native American Indians in Arizona, United States. Indians wearing traditional regalia dance with hoops and play drums. A Native American woman and young girl stand by and watch.
A map shows pipeline network for the transportation of oil and its by-products in the United States, largely for the war effort during World War 2. Shows the laying of the Big Inch petroleum pipelines in Arkansas, Texas, and other locations. Tractors and explosives being used to clear the ground for laying the pipelines. Oil pipeline being laid across a river bed. A welder welds the joints. Pipelines being laid in trenches. Men operate valves to turn on the flow of oil in the new Big Inch pipeline. High octane aviation gas is filled in an aircraft at an airfield. Soldiers fill gas cans all lined up in a lot. An oil tanker in the background. Troops load gasoline jerrycans on trucks. B-17, B-26, and B-24 Bomber aircraft in refueling operations on various airfields. B-17 taking off and formation of aircraft in flight. Long lines of jerry cans being filled with gasoline by personnel near a railroad track. Close up view of gasoline dispensing nozzle in top of Jerry Can and a hand opening the next jerry can in line. Jerry cans loaded into trucks, transported, and unloaded by U.S. Army soldiers. Motor oil being poured into funnels for use in vehicles. Narrator declares, "Oil for freedom. American oil. The blood of the mechanized legion!" A formation of tanks and military vehicles move along a wide field. Narrator encourages sacrifice of American people giving up home comforts of goods and fuels made from oil so that they can be directed to the war effort.
Transportation and storage of crude oil after it has been pumped out of an oil well in the United States. Two men near a pump called a 'pumping jack' which is lifting crude oil from the first oil well drilled in the Garber Field in Oklahoma. Rods which are connected to 'pumping jacks' move back and forth. A fence . 'Tank farms' in which crude oil is stored. A man stands on the top of the stairs of a tank farm.
Oil fields in the United States. Derricks at oil fields in southern California. Smoke comes out of the derricks. Derricks of oil fields which are located far apart. Wells drilled on locations which are largely covered with water. Reflection of derricks in water.
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