1940-1945WORLD WAR II
Japanese American home movies from the 1940's at an Internment Camp.
Scratchy footage of a Japanese Internment Camp in Utah, "Topaz"
Most of the footage is faded with lines going through the film.
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Scratchy footage of a Japanese Internment Camp in Utah, "Topaz"
Most of the footage is faded with lines going through the film.
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| 01:00:04 4.81 |
Hands holding a poster - EXTRA! WAR! (In giant letters) JAPAN ATTACKS U.S.!
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| 01:00:13 13.47 |
Large sign reads: "Evacuation -Sale-"
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| 01:00:15 15.71 |
Scratchy home movie of an Asian couple as they move a large trunk out of presumably their home, the man turns and smiles at camera. Another couple comes and helps out, as the women stand by and wave them on.
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| 01:00:25 25.3 |
Two nicely dressed Asian women and gentleman wearing a three piece suit stand under an awning that reads, The N.B. They pose for camera.
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| 01:00:31 31.66 |
CU hands holding a weird octagon shaped collage-like home made sign that says, "Utah".
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| 01:00:35 35.89 |
Hands holding a sign, "'43 Ranblings" - a little boy peaks out from the side of the sign. Clothes hanging on a clothesline in bkgd.
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| 01:00:42 42.12 |
Scratchy footage of what is presumably the Japanese Internment Camp most likely the one in Utah named Topaz. A row of low lying buildings out in the desert, some people and vehicles moving around the camp can be seen.
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| 01:01:19 79.33 |
An emblem graphic on a wall - "Co-op Topaz'. - this is Topaz Consumer Cooperative Enterprises. the US government organization responsible for relocating Japanese American people to special camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor from 1942-1945.
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| 01:01:23 83.39 |
Japanese men pose and shake hands. Nicely dressed Japanese women walking out of the "Dry Good and Shoe Store" (sign outside the building).
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| 01:01:38 98.77 |
A group of 10 - 12 young Japanese American young women, smiling looking happy, pose as a group. Separately, the men smile and pose for the camera.
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| 01:02:05 125.19 |
More scratchy footage with lines going through it of Japanese American men posing at the Internment Camp, and shots of the camp with its rows of one level structures that look like barracks.
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| 01:02:25 145.59 |
A young couple wave and pose for the camera. A male child about 2 years old sucks his thumb and looks at the camera, he turns and reveals a small cowboy hat hanging on his back. Shots of the child's parents.
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| 01:02:48 168.2 |
(Faded footage) WS of a bunch of folk lined up outside a building at the camp.
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| 01:02:54 174.23 |
CU large group of the Japanese folk outside at the camp, mingle, a person holds a Japanese paper parasol (umbrella). Faded copy of the :"Topaz Protestant Sunday School" schedule. The people sit and pose for the camera
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| 01:03:55 236 |
Various shots of the Japanese folk at the internment camp. Most look happy, aware of the camera, and don't mind having their photos taken individually and in groups.
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| 01:04:22 262.81 |
Group of folk digging a ditch or maybe garden, everyone helps out.
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| 01:05:02 302.42 |
Sunset landscape shot in the desert.
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| 01:05:10 310.7 |
Large group shot, mostly men wearing suits.
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| 01:05:16 316.06 |
Two White men, officials, visit the camp and pose with the residents.
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| 01:05:36 336.02 |
Two young (maybe 12+) Japanese girls, one wears her hair in pigtails with ribbons.
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| 01:05:56 356.21 |
Two women on the steps of their cottage with their adorable children.
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| 01:06:01 361.25 |
Various shots from a moving vehicle of the Topaz Internment Camp. Lines going through film.
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| 01:06:30 390.25 |
Various people pose for the camera, some Japanese some White folk and appear to be in a suburban neighborhood.
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| 01:06:44 404.36 |
Vintage 1930's-40's cars parked outside a barn like building, maybe a gas station or grocery store.
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| 01:06:47 407.71 |
Vintage cars parked, head in, along a strip of shops in an old western town which could be Delta, Utah the town where the Topaz Internment Center was located.
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| 01:07:00 420.33 |
POV moving car along a highway through the desert and toward the mountains, some snow capped peaks in the bkgd.
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| 01:07:09 429.28 |
A group of Japanese Americans pose in front of a small home in the desert.
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| 01:07:20 440.29 |
a small white wooden sign "Entering Salt Lake City".
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| 01:07:26 446.96 |
The Mormon Tabernacle
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| 01:07:30 450.73 |
Shots of Salt Lake City - as it was in the early 1940's. Vintage cars parked on the extremely wide streets, some traffic, a few peds.
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| 01:07:53 473.26 |
CUs the MormonTabernacle, Hotel Utah, other buildings in SLC.
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| 01:08:28 508.89 |
The words "Thanksgiving 1943" carved on a stone wall.
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| 01:08:41 521.02 |
Sign on door "Block 41 Residents Only"
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| 01:08:48 528.72 |
A small group of Japanese presumably food service workers pose for the camera. Women wear aprons, men blue uniforms and white chef hats.
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| 01:09:31 571.93 |
Sunset
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| 01:09:35 575.53 |
Japanese folk, men and kids pose in their winter jackets and wool hats.. Some of the men hold sledge hammers.
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| 01:09:52 592.18 |
CU a campfire.
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| 01:09:56 596.76 |
CU an adorable smiling Japanese baby.
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| 01:10:00 600.71 |
Group of folk happily hammer away with sledge hammers at the contents in a can. CU white flour puffs out of the can as it is struck by the wooden hammers. Some sort of ritual. A man holds up a big round ball of maybe bread dough?
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| 01:10:21 621.69 |
Sign, faded, that reads "Japanese new Year" "Topaz 1944" . Hand holds uyp a Seasons Greetings card.
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| 01:10:33 633.66 |
CU another White male at the camp, visits. A White woman and small boy pose for the camera.
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| 01:10:50 650.77 |
Icicles on a building at the camp. A man pulls two kids on sleds. Shots of snowy conditions. Snow filled streets, icicles. Snow storm at campl. A white-out.
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| 01:12:22 742 |
Various shots, sunset, the Topaz Internment Camp, water towers at the camp.
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| 01:12:53 773.15 |
Sign on building "Topaz Community Conference" and "Topaz Swine Office".
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| 01:12:57 777.88 |
Shots of farm animals in barns at the camp, cows, pigs
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| 01:15:01 901.39 |
Shots of the people living their lives at the camp. A dust storm, dry cracked ground, hanging clothes on a clothesline, people with their children, group photos, a sign written in Japanese, mother holding adorable baby, Japanese man wearing a military uniform.
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| 01:18:48 1128.85 |
An unknown White woman wearing a fancy hat holding a baby, they pose for camera.
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| 01:23:10 1390 |
end film.
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