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You are bidding on one DVD with the following historical movies, films, clips:
1. | Our Enemy: The Japanese (1943)
[1943; 19:51 min; B&W] |
| | Stridently anti-Japanese film that attempts to convey an understanding of Japanese life and philosophy so that the U.S. may more readily defeat its enemy. Depicts the Japanese as "primitive, murderous and fanatical." With many images of 1930s and 1940s Japan, and a highly negative narration by Joseph C. Grew, former U.S. ambassador to Japan.
Voiceover:
"You are about to see the second of three films which have been made to help us size up our enemy, Japan. To defeat the Japanese and to do the job thoroughly, we have got to understand them thoroughly. The Japanese aren't easy to know. . . . I can testify that they are as different from ourselves as any people on this planet. The real difference is in their minds. You cannot measure Japanese sense of logic by any Western yardstick. Their weapons are modern; their thinking 2000 years out of date. "
"They believe it is the right and destiny of Japan's emperors to rule the whole world, to bring about the fulfillment of this destiny and to destroy all nation and peoples which stand in the way of its fulfillment is the sacred duty of Japan's army and navy. The army of Japan is a well-trained, sternly disciplined force of fanatics . . . to reckless courage by a primitive moral code which assures to every man who dies in battle an immortal life among the Shinto gods."
"Never an inventive or creative people, Japanese have always depended on the scientific and industrial knowledge of the Western world. And now that they are at war with Britain and the United States, they find their chief source from which to borrow fast-changing production techniques in Nazi Germany. "
"Playing their closely supervised part in total war, are Japan's major metropolitan newspapers which ape the great American dailies. "
"Every channel of public information is being used to impress upon Japan's people that the war is proceeding according to a divinely-guided plan. "
"When in 1923, Japan was wracked and broken by an earthquake, it was the United States which was first and most generous in giving aid. "
"From infancy, Japanese children find their days strictly scheduled, filled with discipline of total war. Physical culture groups, they harden the bodies, learn the obedience to orders which will make them good warriors in later life."
"Wreaking pitiless destruction on unarmed cities and their helpless people by slaughtering all those who stand in Japan's way, the young Japanese will win honor and grace in the sight of his god's. For they have decreed that it is Japan's destiny to achieve mastery over the whole world. To bring to all people the blessings of the samurai code."
"Anticipating worldwide expansion, Japan has for years maintained a school of military government and colonial administration where picked young Japanese learn the approved attitude and method of ruling conquered people in a conquered territory. The emperors future "gauleiters" lead a spartan existence to become used to the simple rations that will be their lot until the day of final victory. "
"Averaging only five foot three in height and 117 pounds in weight the Japanese soldier is expected to compensate for his small size by his fanaticism in battle. "
"This then is the enemy, primitive, murderous and fanatical. . . . Against the madness of Japan nothing less than all our efforts will suffice."
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2. | Japanese Relocation (ca. 1943)
[1943; 9:28 min; B&W] |
| | U.S. government-produced film defending the World War II internment of Japanese American citizens.
Narr. by Milton S. Eisenhower, director of the War Relocation Authority. An historical record of the transfer of Japanese residents from the Pacific Coast to the American Interior as carried out the U.S. Army and the War Relocation Authority. 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of them American citizens. Special attention given to possibility of sabotage & espionage.
"Japanese themselves cheerfully handled the enormous paperwork involved." Alludes to the auctioning of personal property by government agencies and businessmen, saying that it "often involved financial sacrifice for the evacuees." Narration says that evacuees "cooperated wholeheartedly," noting that "the many loyal among them felt that this was a sacrifice that they could make in behalf of America's war effort."
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3. | A Challenge to Democracy (1944)
[1944; 18:03 min; B&W] |
| | Government-produced film attempting to defend the massive internment of Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II.
Film on the massive internment of Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II.
The film tries to reassure the viewer that the conditions in the camps are not too "soft" -- that the Japanese Americans there have to work hard and actually provide for many of their own needs, costing the taxpayer as little as possible. It also takes pains to describe the internees as involved in community activities like the Boy Scouts, Red Cross and church-going. It makes the point several times that internees are mostly loyal to America, but that the potential threat they pose is being dealt with appropriately. There is also footage of Japanese American fighting units in training.
Voiceover:
"Evacuation: more than 100,000 men, women and children all of Japanese ancestry removed from their homes in the Pacific coast states to wartime communities established in out-of-the-way places. Their evacuation did not imply individual disloyalty, but was ordered to reduce a military hazard at a time when danger of invasion was great. Two-thirds of the evacuees are American citizens by right of birth. The rest are their Japanese-born parents and grandparents. The evacuees are not under suspicion. They are not prisoners. They are not internees. They are merely dislocated people. The unwounded casualties of war."
"Each family, upon arrival at a relocation center was assigned to a single room compartment about 20 X 25 feet. Barren, unattractive, a stove, a light bulb, cots, mattresses and blankets. Those were the things provided by the government. The family's own furniture was in storage on the West Coast."
"Those who work are paid. Wages by outside standards are low. Twelve dollars a month for beginners. Sixteen dollars a month for most of the workers and nineteen dollars a month for professional people such as doctors."
"Some of the teachers [in camp schools] are Caucasian. Some are evacuees, Americans of Japanese ancestry."
"Evacuee doctors and nurses serve in the hospitals, under the supervision of Caucasians."
"The evacuees have a form of community self-government, which aids the appointed officials in administration of the community. "
"A judicial commission sits in judgment on minor offenses. Attorneys among the evacuees represent the prosecution and the defense. A serious crime would be tried in the regular courts outside the center. The crime rate among people of Japanese ancestry in the United State always has been extremely low and this has proved to be the case in the centers."
"Evacuees have provided practically all of their own [sports] equipment. . . .little government money has been spent for strictly recreational purposes. "
"The relocation centers include many well-known artists."
"Most of the alien Japanese are Buddhists, but almost half their American-born children belong to some Christian denomination, Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian. Except for state-Shinto, involving Emperor worship, there is no restriction on religion in relocation centers."
"While they have many things in common with ordinary American communities, in the really important things relocation centers are not normal and probably never can be. Home life is disrupted. Eating, living and working conditions are abnormal. Training of children is difficult. Americanism, taught in the schools and churches and on the playgrounds, loses much of its meaning in the confines of a relocation center. When the War Relocation Authority was only a few months old it was decided that relocation centers should not be maintained any longer than necessary."
[some Japanese Americans were permitted to leave the camps before the end of the war. there is a discussion of how these people were chosen and the possible unconstitutionality of the relocation, also much footage]
"Relocation of evacuees is not being carried out at the expense of national security. Only those evacuees whose statements and whose acts leave no question of their loyalty to the United States are permitted to leave."
"American flags, some of them for the armed forces, are turned out by Mrs. Yoshii Abe. She hopes that one of the flags she makes someday maybe be carried in triumph down the streets of Tokyo."
"The Americanism of the great majority of America's Japanese finds its highest expression in the thousands who are in the United States Army, almost half of them are in a Japanese American combat team. . . .Hundreds of them volunteered while they were in relocation centers. . . .They know what they're fighting against and they know what they're fighting for - their country and for the American ideals that are part of their upbringing - democracy, freedom, equality of opportunity regardless of race, creed, or ancestry. "
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4. | My Japan (1945)
[1945; 16:03 min; B&W] |
| | Complex and disturbing anti-Japanese propaganda film produced to spur the sale of U.S. war bonds. CONTENT ADVISORY: Explicit racism and extreme violence.
This World War II film operates on a number of very strange conceptual levels. A caucasian actor - made to look Japanese - sits behind a desk and tells us that Americans have many misconceptions about the Japanese people. "We don't have big teeth and thick glasses," he hisses through his taped-back cheeks. He then proceeds to show us what Japan and the Japanese are REALLY like.
"You think you can defeat us by wiping out a few, inexpensive lives," he snickers. "We are not like you!" As we are shown what the narrator claims is captured Japanese war footage, we are told that that the Japanese people are brutally "realistic," and willing to sacrifice everything for their ultimate goal - "to win the war."
The narrator mocks Americans as being too soft - a nation of dreamers. "We think you're stupid!" he snorts. "You can destroy Japan's cities with your bombs, but you cannot destroy its heart!"
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5. | Target Invisible (ca. 1945)
[1945; 8:24 min; B&W] |
| | Illustrates the use of radar on a dramatized mission over Japan. |
6. | A Tale of Two Cities (1946)
[1946; 12:02 min; B&W] |
| | How the atomic bomb destroyed the people and cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
The first atomic bomb film. Footage of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a Jesuit priest survivor describing the Hiroshima blast, and the classic "atomic footprints in the sands of time" bridge shadow art (courtesy of an anonymous Nagasaki citizen).
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