As photographed from deck of another vessel, an obsolete 19th century two-stacker target ship is struck by torpedo and blown to pieces during naval test in United States. A large ship displaying numerous signal flags is seen in the background.
United States Relocation Program for Japanese-American civilians in World War II. A Japanese couple walks in Midwest. Building and houses at the Relocation Center. Civilians leave the Center and War Relocation Authority (WRA) offices provide employment to them. A Japanese man works in crop of corns and check corn bugs in Illinois. Another works with machine in a factory. A Japanese nurse gives medicine to a woman lay on bed in women surgical ward of a hospital. A man operates tractor in a field. A boy works on machine in a factory to make kitchen equipment.
Men of Japanese descent at a meeting in the United States, circa 1941-1942, near time of opening of relocation centers and internment camps for Japanese citizens. Men sit at a meeting table. A man stands and speaks. A man wears glasses. A man smokes.
Alcohol production and taxation system: dramatization and animation. Dramatic raid of alcohol and tobacco tax division on illegal moonshine stills in a forest in the southern U.S. Officials of the Alchohol and Tobacco Tax Division of the Internal Revenue Service walk in woods. Illegal moonshiners sit in woods with rifle in hand and sacks on ground. Horse cart in the woods. Barrels of alcohol. Men fight. The officers dynamite and explode an illegal still. Animation shows the ancient time when men discovered the intoxicating effect of alcohol in different parts of world like Greece and China. Taxes on alcohol. Excess grain used by colonial government and process of making alcohol by grain. Alcohol making industry at a farm and exchange of necessary goods with alcohol. Alcohol making industry at small scale and factory of alcohol. The production of alcohol starts in1866 and reaches 15 million dollars and 90 million barrels production rate. Truck in 1950s driving into a brewery plant. View of giant cooper brewing kettles in brewery. The process of brewing beer. Production of beer is shown, with grains like barley and rice passing through machines and into brewing kettles. Alcohol as main source of revenue. Officials work at the permissive branch for administration of laws related to liquor, tobacco, cigarette paper and tubes production. Women and men sitting at desks. Women doing typing and clerical work reviewing forms and applications. Worker adds mash through a tube to a giant kettle in a distillery. In the Seagram's bourbon whiskey distillery in Louisville Kentucky, workers assemble wooden barrels, prepare flaming barrel lids for bourbon barrels, and they pound stoppers in barrels with a mallet and prepare them for shipment while an IRS inspector looks on. Government official of the IRS supervises production, packaging and labeling services in the factory. Seagram name and Louisville location seen printed on the barrels.
Signal Corps Band plays in United States. Soldier sit around a radio and listen to music. Billboard of Signal Corps Band, playing- 'The Rachmaninoff' and time of the show. Banner on stage 'Music from Monmouth'. Instrumentalists play with Piano. Conductor shakes hand with piano player. Audience clap. (World War II period).
Women's Reserve (US Navy WAVES) audience listens and claps during a musical show in the United States. Women reserve sailor WAVES enter into theater in line past billboard of the show. Sheet music of 'Yankee Doodle', 'Tenting on the Old Camp Ground', 'A hot time in the Old Town', and over leaf of 'Over There'. Women sailor audience sits in theater and claps. Women WAVES enter theater in orderly lines, passing a billboard advertising Frank Sinatra.
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