Japanese Relocation, 1943
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Creator(s): Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Overseas Operations Branch. New York Office. News and Features Bureau. (12/17/1942 – 09/15/1945) (Most Recent)
Series : Propaganda, Information, and Documentary Motion Pictures, compiled ca. 1942 – 1945, documenting the period 1918 – 1945
Record Group 208: Records of the Office of War Information, 1926 – 1951
Production Date: 1943
General Note(s): Credits: Narrator, Milton S. Eisenhower
Contributor: Producer, Office of War Information. Distributed by the War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry.
Use Restriction(s): Undetermined
Scope & Content: Milton S. Eisenhower explains the need for and methods of moving Japanese-Americans from the West Coast. Nisei families register with the War Relocation Authority which helps them sell or rent their homes, businesses, and farms. The Nisei are temporarily quartered at the Santa Anita Race Track and then moved to a midwest relocation center. Shows daily activities at the center and waterfront scenes in San Francisco.
Contact(s): National Archives at College Park – Motion Pictures (RD-DC-M), National Archives at College Park
8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001
Phone: 301-837-3540, Fax: 301-837-3620, Email: mopix@nara.gov
National Archives Identifier: 38743
Local Identifier: 208.207
http://research.archives.gov/description/38743
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