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.
At beginning, film shows officials checking identifications of persons preparing to board the Swedish Ship M.S. Gripsholm, for repatriation to Japan during World War 2. Clerks check names against lists. Several woman passengers look over a railing or the ship watching others boarding. Ship's crewmen sort through bundles of passengers' belongings in the cargo hold. Closeup of two little boys on deck. A big boy escorts two smaller boys walking directly to the camera. More views of boys and closeup of a little girl on deck. Some closeups of boys on deck and watching tugboats in the Hudson River. Laughing boys running toward the camera. Boys at ship's railing looking at the Manhattan, New York City, skyline across the river. View from pier of persons boarding the ship by a gangplank to upper deck. View from the pier of passengers side by side at the ship's railing. A Nurse takes a newborn baby aboard the ship. Red Cross personnel assist a young woman boarding. More views of passengers boarding, including one on a litter. Another passenger being brought aboard on a litter. A Red cross woman accompanies a man and woman on the deck. Four young men and some family members at ship's railing with Manhattan skyline in background. Swedish flag flies near some families at the railing. A mother and daughter in matching dresses walk with the father carrying a small child. Closeup of little boy and girl. Baggage being brought up the gangplank.
Opening scene shows police officer removing a sick person, on a litter from a Pennsylvania Railroad train at a station and placing them gently on a railway cart. A uniformed U.S. Army Military policeman helps them. Next, Japanese Nationals and Issei families with many small children are seen leaving a train and walking along a railway platform. A Red Cross woman in white stands behind an ambulance, where a newborn infant lies on a litter. Policeman carry two women on litters and place them in the ambulance. The newborn baby is being cradled in the arms of the Red Cross woman. A Japanese family climbs aboard a bus. Railway workers transport travelers' baggage on a large cart. Police stand near by as a U.S. Army Military policeman boards a bus filled with Japanese to be repatriated to Japan. Two MPs watch as Japanese to be repatriated climb aboard another bus. A group of Japanese men enter a bus, followed by Armed U.S. Army soldiers who also board. An official guides a train to a stopping point on a train station. A large group of men to be repatriated to Japan step from the train under guard by many armed U.S. soldiers.
Canadian and American parcels loaded onto Red Cross Gripsholm ship in New York during World War II. Parcels are intended for delivery to Allied prisoners of war in Japanese prison camps. A female American officer checks the parcels.
At start, the film shows the Captain of the M.S. Gripsholm relaxing, with an American civilian official, along with several crew members and some American women, in the First Class smoking lounge aboard the ship. Scene shifts to view of the Gripsolm's two smoke stacks and then to a stack of baggage belonging to Japanese Nationals and Issei passengers aboard the ship for repatriation to Japan in World War 2. Customs officials are seen screening the luggage. Stern view of the Gripsholm docked at pier in Jersey City, New Jersey. Swedish flag displayed on the deck. More stern views of the ship.
As film begins, an officer of the Swedish ship M.S. Gripsholm, is seen in the ship's frozen food storage area directing the placement of food provisions for their forthcoming voyage to Japan. Armed U.S. Navy sailors stand guard on the pier alongside the ship. Supplies are loaded through a side door of the ship. The captain and another ship's officer review some papers on deck. The Swedish flag flies from the railing behind them. View of the ship's port side from a boat (unseen) in the water. American flag on camera ship is seen as it motors away from the Gripsolm. Closer port side view of the ship. Sign on starboard stern railing reads: "Beware of propellers." View from camera boat approaching the Gripsolm's stern.
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