You Are Currently Watching: Children of Japan (1941)
Posted On: February 14, 2010Posted In: Documentaries
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Shows home, work and school activities of a middle-class Japanese family.
Challenge to Democracy, A (1944)
Government-produced film attempting to defend the massive internment of Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II.
To the shores of Iwo Jima (1945)
An Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary, this 20 minute Technicolor production unfolds with graphic energy the nearly month long battle for Iwo Jima, a volcanic island lying 700 miles southeast of Japan, in which 20000 Japanese and nearly 7000 American fighting men were killed, a struggle eternalized by Joe Rosenthal’s photograph of five Marines [...]
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse (Standard 4:3) (1940)
In November, 1940, the newly completed Tacoma Narrows Bridge, opened barely four months before, swayed and collapsed in a 42 mile-per-hour wind. There were no casualties except a dog trapped in a car stranded on the bridge. A rescue was attempted (by the man with the pipe), but the frightened animal would not leave the [...]
Grandstand Crowd (1913)
Just look into those faces of these people who were alive and well nearly 100 years ago, attending the California State Fair. Look at them and take it all in. What do you see? What kind of people? What do they look like? When I did it, what I found was both eerie and fascinating [...]
![[California State Highway 101 Opening] (1929)](http://www.bacauexpres.ro/cinema/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Californ1929_000150.jpg)
[California State Highway 101 Opening] (1929)
Opening of California State Highway 101 at San Francisco, with 50,000 people in attendance; parade of automobiles from San Francisco Civic Center; Mayor James “Sunny Jim” Rolph of San Francisco; Mayor Taylor of San Mateo; county supervisors; Queen Clara Carli; aerial views of highway and air-to-air shots of airplane carrying dignitaries. The highway linked San [...]
![[California Cotton Mills] (1924)](http://www.bacauexpres.ro/cinema/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Californ1924_000240.jpg)
![[California State Fair Highlights] (1913)](http://www.bacauexpres.ro/cinema/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Californ1913_000330.jpg)
[California State Fair Highlights] (1913)
Includes stunt in which two railroad locomotives collide head-on.
