The NISEI: The Pride and the Shame

Duration: 3:00

Year Published: 1965

Creator: BBC

Complete Record: Subject: documentary of senseless action taken against Japanese-Americans during the early months of WW II. Newsreel footage of period plus “recent” interviews with leading Japanese-Americans - Senator Inouye of Hawaii. Forced to move from their homes, herded into guarded, fenced camps without trials. Presumed disloyal because of descent. When released many young men joined the U.S. Military in Europe and the Pacific. Shots: rocket takes off viewed from launching station, then view to ground from rocket; Pearl Harbor ships going down, CUs on Japanese-Americans (J-As)telling their stories directly to camera, smoking J-A man in hat being lead from building by authorities- men in hats and coats - 1940s, checking documents, people’s radios, etc. put in storage, Richfield H-Octane Gasoline tank, man with binoculars looks up, men with rifles stand guard on bridge, Boeing, J-A man gets out of car at troops request, sale & out of business signs in buildings - stores owned by J-As, “instructions to all Japanese”, J-As get loaded up with stuff into army jeeps, get on boats, wave good-bye, wave American flags, Lyon moving truck, get aboard buses; arrive at camps with baggage which is inspected, picture book (drawings) shows how they lived, LS of many barracks, Eugene V. Rostow speaks to camera, voting inside camps, J-A children play baseball in camp, family arrives; wash basin cleaning, sewing; planting, school, dentistry, boot camp for young J-A men; General Mark W. Clark, J-A men fighting in Europe, U.S.O. dancing J-As, marching, machine guns, tank, medical station, dead bodies, coming home on big ship, Hula dancers, leis, Truman in coat and hat with officers addresses soldiers carrying flags.