Home Movie: Hirota Collection: 012106 (silent)

Description: The Hirota family attends the Japanese American Citizens League 5th Biennial Conference in 1938, prior to World War II and the forced incarceration of Japanese Americans in the United States. Notable scene shows conference participants posing with signs representing their regions. The family also visits an empty Hollywood Bowl amphitheater, travels to Mission San Juan Capistrano, and more.

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Subjects: 1930s, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Asian and Pacific Islander history and culture, Leisure and recreation, Tourism

Tags: house exterior; Japanese American families in California and Mexico; Japanese Americans; man putting on shoes; babies; Bank of America; Ryan Theater; mother and child; man coming home with rifle; families; waving; man at microphone; downtown Los Angeles; East First Street, Los Angeles; Little Tokyo; meeting; Japanese American Citizens League 5th Biennial Conference; groups posing with signs showing their regions; Hollywood Bowl sign; Hollywood Bowl; no spectators; empty amphitheater; La Boheme advertising billboard; NBC Radio City Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street; Lake Morconian? Hotel & Spa swimming pool; swimming pools; Little Tokyo; Japantown street scenes; Iwaki Hotel; JACL conventioneers on East First Street; Kawafuku Restaurant, downtown Los Angeles; socializing on sidewalk; harbors; Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro; Golden Gate boat; Fish Harbor Ferry Reeves Airport Wilmington sign; street signs for Tuna St. and Seaside; Y.F. Fujikawa M.D. Physician & Surgeon sign; fishing boats at San Pedro or Wilmington; field of oil wells; Mission San Juan Capistrano; California missions; San Diego street; gardens; San Diego Zoo sign; animals in captivity; penguins; baboons; snakes; tarantulas; Spanish Village Art Center; United States-Mexico border; border fence; Marriages and Divorces sign; Hotel Agua Caliente; Tijuana; BCN; YWCA; Descanso Bar; La Mision 15 Ensenada 57 Tijuana 46 directional signs; Pitch and Putt Golf Course; Rosarito Beach Country Club; Japanese Hospital of Los Angeles entrance; Olvera Street vendors

Film Sponsor:

Creator: "Carl Hirota, DDS"

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Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Hirota Collection PC-0050, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1938

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Geographical Location: USA; California; Los Angeles, California; San Diego, California; Mexico; San Juan Capistrano, California; Downtown Los Angeles, Calfornia; San Pedro, Los Angeles, California; Tijuana, Baja California

Genre/Form: home movie

Language: eng

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: positive

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: square triangle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 214