Shows home, work and school activities of a middle-class Japanese family.
Government-produced film attempting to defend the massive internment of Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Includes stunt in which two railroad locomotives collide head-on.