family lived in the bay area in berkeley and the folks in berkeley were relocated first of all to tanforan, which was a race track because the camps were not ready yet, so they were living in horse stalls for about three months and then in september they moved them to topaz, it was not finished yet, in fact it wasn't finished until october. >> now this is the dusty and are are -- arid desert of topaz. >> had the families were processed, they were fingerprinted and basically given mug shots and they had to carry certificates, and their belongings were searched. this is actually this is the certificate for this man, and his family was relocated from the bay area to topaz. their son was a filmmaker. he was able to smuggle in his camera, with the help of a friend and he took footage of the wind blowing, he took pictures of the different events. >> then i got on top of the roof to take a shot of the sea of roofs. and as you look at this picture you realize what a waste it was for the government to spend $ 300 million building tent camps like this. at $1,942. >> when the government wake through