A Brief Comparison Of Japanese Relocation And The Eternal Jew

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Both filmmakers for the Japanese Relocation and The Eternal Jew had similar intentions for their films but used different approaches. They are both World War II propaganda documentary films and both director's intention was to educate their audience about what was happening in their country during the war. The Japanese Relocation film's intention was to inform people about the Japanese-American communities. The Eternal Jew's intention was also to inform people about how even the Jews were. However, Japanese Relocation uses a completely different approach in sending the message to their citizens then The Eternal Jew to their citizens. The shooting style in of both films are similar but what is being said about the subjects is completely …show more content…

It was produced by Milton S. Eisenhower who calmly talked to the camera about these communities while sitting at a desk. This gave a connection from the film to the audience making it feel important. It would cut to location shots of the communities, to show who and how the people were already living there. As Eisenhower explained in a voice-over about the communities while shots of what he mentioned were shown; the homes, schools, and hospitals. The people living in the communities were shown working on projects for the army and people smiling and waving at the camera. At one point of the film, Eisenhower stated that the Japanese-Americans know by moving to the new locations is their military duty for the war. That statement or approach allowed the viewers to believe this was the right thing to do, so they would be obligated to move and leave everything behind. The new communities looked like a happy new home but in reality, they were concentration camps, just like the ones in Germany during the …show more content…

It was to educate their citizens about evil Jews and why they deserved to live in the ghettos of Poland. The Eternal Jew is narrated with a voice-of-god throughout the entire film and shows b-roll of what is being talked about. The approach was opposite from Japanese Relocation by how the narrator discusses the subjects but were both similar in style it was shot in. Everything that narrator says is very negative and nothing but lies about the Jews and what they believed in. It mentions that the Jews only cared about making money but they do not like to work, but to sell things. The film shows unhappy Jews working by moving stones from one pile to the next. The Jews moving the rocks was an order from the Nazi to have them do it for no reason. Then it cuts to them in their “natural” environment barbering for goods in the street. The narrator informs the viewers that they do this because they like to not because there are not enough goods to go around in the ghetto. The film showed a shot of a woman with one shoe on top of the bundle, they were trading because they needed certain things since they were not allowed to bring more than a bag with them. At the middle of the film, they explained where Jews came from by displaying a map and showing arrows where they moved to over the years. Then with the same map, it shows rats coming from the same area the Jews did and how