Home Movie: 010114 (silent)

Description: During World War II, Japanese American citizens are shown incarcerated at the Jerome (Arkansas) Relocation Center. Agricultural production and educational activity is shown in Arkansas, as well as people reading Japanese language newspapers and other scenes of daily camp life. Later scenes show the center's population during the army-organized process of transfer, by bus and by train, to the Tule Lake Segregation Center in northern California. Both sites were part of the system of concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Agency where Japanese American citizens were incarcerated. Among the most unique and historically significant films within the world of home movies, this reel shows the camp communities and their resilience in vivid color.

Article on Jerome Relocation Center in Densho Encyclopedia: encyclopedia.densho.org/Jerome/ (accessed April 30, 2024).

An aerial image of the camp site as seen in 2024 is here: www.google.com/maps/place/Jerome,+AR+71638/@33.4118686,-91.462487,338m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x862c14ea11368fd1:0x77131b17d76c4829!8m2!3d33.3983358!4d-91.4689975!16zL20vMHFzenc?entry=ttu (accessed April 30, 2024).

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Subjects: 1940s, Racism , People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Asian and Pacific Islander history and culture, World War II, History, Agriculture

Tags: Jerome, Arkansas; Japanese Americans; citizens; World War II; War Relocation Authority; agriculture; rice fields; Headquarters Building; Denson; Arkansas; farming; education; graduation ceremony; cap and gown; newspapers; Japanese language news; Japanese language signage; resilience; adaptation; trains; internment camps; incarceration; military vehicles; inmates; gardens; white U.S. army personnel; army personnel families; people boarding trains; military personnel checking papers; banality of evil; 1940s clothing; wartime Kodachrome; 1940s cars; World War II-era U.S. army barracks; crossing a ditch; people walk on a wooden plank across a ditch; people reach out of train windows to hold hands with people on platform; incarcerated families; incarcerated children; population transfers; people using parasols; American flag;

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: circa 1943

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Geographical Location: USA; Arkansas; Jerome, Arkansas; Denson, Arkansas

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle triangle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 404