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Republic Steel Strike and unrest in United States
Labor unrest and stone throwing during Republic Steel Strike. Debris on a partially barricaded road. An American flag strung across the road. Several demonstrators standing next to sign reading: "Republic Steel Strike." They, and cohorts on the opposite side of the road, throw objects at cars carrying workers to a factory. Police intervene with tear gas.
16 million men register themselves in United States for the WWII draft, and President Roosevelt addresses from White House.
As World War II heats up, 16,500,000 men between ages 21 to 36 register themselves throughout the United States, signing up during the first peacetime conscription in U.S. history. (This was triggered by passage of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, also known as the Burke-Wadsworth Act, the genesis of "Selective Service.") Opening scene shows men lining up to register for the draft before the United States entered World War 2. Views of men filing out their registration forms. At 00:22 famous prize fighter, Barney Ross, is being registered. (He jokes that the registrar shaking his hand has too strong a grip.) At 00:34 Hollywood cowboy Gene Autry is seen registering. Close up view of street signs at Chinatown intersection of Bayard Street and Mott Street in New York City. Sign below it notes "School Street. Drive Slowly. Make no unnecessary noise." Line of many registrants of Chinese-American descent waiting in line, and processing paperwork. Scene changes to another area of the city, where a line of mostly African American men wait outside a registration building. Some cheer and wave for the camera. A police officer at the entrance hustles them inside, pulling some of them along. View of the exterior of the White House in Washington DC. United States President Franklin D Roosevelt addresses the nation's men of draft age, telling them that the call up of 800,000 men for training in year one, and less than one million men in each subsequent year, is a program of defensive preparation only. Roosevelt says to the registrants that "Democracy is your cause. The cause of youth." ( Note: clip is silent except for President Roosevelt speaking at the end.)
Nisei, the Japanese Americans during normal civilian life in cities and relocated at relocation houses during World War II.
Nisei, the Japanese Americans of second generation, at relocation centers (internment camps) during World War II. A liner sails near the Manhattan Bridge on water front of Manhattan. Streets and markets crowded with Japanese-American people. Japanese students at a school. A Japanese man teaches girls lessons to handle film camera. A military officer registers a Nisei couple. Car moves in the desert for site selection of relocation center. Men clear ground for making relocation homes. Homes, colonies and farmlands under construction. A family enters their cabinet in the relocation center. Nisei children play in mud and barbed fences at the relocation centers. Military Police guards during a parade with rifles. A mother and child walk in mud.
Nisei live in uneasy conditions at relocation centers yet develop mechanized farming and houses, during World War II.
Nisei, the Japanese Americans of second generation, at relocation centers (internment camps) during World War 2. A relocation center in Wyoming. Japanese man and women carry buckets at a place to bath. Women wash cloth in the public tubs. Nisei gather in morning at the mess. People dine together. Nisei police guards on duty at relocation centers. A Victory Garden with fruits and vegetable developed by Japanese farmers. Nisei farmers in farms. Men and women harvest vegetables from a field. A man on the tractor plows a field. Rice fields developed in Gila River, Amazon by Nisei farmers. Workers feed chicken at a poultry farm. Mechanized farming equipment repaired by Nisei mechanic.
Prisoners take out corpses of Czech patriots, from Terezin and Karlovy Vary prison camps and doctors identify them, in Czechoslovakia
Exhumation of Czech patriots, the victims of World War II Nazi German atrocities, from Terezin (Theresienstadt Ghetto) and Karlovy Vary prison camps in Czechoslovakia. Officers of Military Police, prisoners of war and other enlisted men take the bodies of the concentration camp victims out of mass graves for their identification. Piles of dead bodies taken out of the mass graves. Prisoners take out corpses, doctor doing identification tests in dead body. Prisoners take bodies in coffins for burial. Number of coffins for reburial at a ceremony.
U.S. Department of the Treasury, Secret Service, film surveys scene where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963
Film opens showing a blackboard and chalk sketch of the area in Dallas where U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Key streets and location where Mr. Abraham Zapruder took his 8mm film of the event are pointed out. Other details are identified, including the window from which shots were fired in the Texas School Book Depository Building. Details of distances from various points and timing of shots are narrated. Scene shifts to view from inside a car following the motorcade route. it turns in front of the Texas School Book Depository, where some spectators are watching the activity. Spectators watch on Elm Street,as the car retracing the motorcade route heads toward and through the Triple Underpass. Dallas police officers are seen controlling traffic to facilitate the Secret Service filming. Scene shifts to the Texas Book Depository, where window used by the assassin is pointed out. The camera focuses back as the car follows the original motorcade path.
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