Home Movie: Hirota Collection: 071160 (silent)

Description: Pre-World War II footage of a Japanese American family and friends spending time together in and around San Francisco, celebrating birthdays and holidays and enjoying summer time at a river beach. Featuring scenes in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco's Japantown; the East Bay; a visit to a Japanese-owned vegetable farm, presumably in Salinas; and scenes of intermingling with white neighbors. One scene shows Dr. Carl T. Hirota standing on the sidewalk in San Francisco's Western Addition wearing his 442nd Infantry Regiment Army jacket.

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Subjects: 1930s, Parks and monuments, Leisure and recreation, Families, Agriculture, Children, Celebrations and ceremonies, Holidays, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Games and play

Tags: Golden Gate Park; Spreckels Lake; model boats; dahlias; roses; saddle shoes; Sunday best; ducks; gulls; Conservatory of Flowers; Golden Gate Bridge in the fog; Lost Landscapes; Alcatraz; hand over camera lens; under-exposed; dogs; smoking; cigarettes; gardens; farmers; vegetable beds; wagons; dusty cars; person with camera; tripods; service person in uniform; Japanese Americans; plaid skirts; aprons; Western Addition; Fillmore District; Victorian houses; Edwardian houses; Hirota Dentist sign; Youthful Beauty Shoppe sign; Koga Grocery; matchstick game; pick-up-sticks game; ruffled collars; movie lights; dinner parties; Embarcadero; Pier 25; N.Y.K. Line; ships; embarkation; steamship sailing from pier; streamers; waving goodbye; SS Taiyo Maru ship; San Francisco Bay; Marina District Lighthouse; birthday cakes; first birthday; candles; cutting the cake; playing cards; row boats; wooden docks; umbrellas; beaches; sand; bathing suits; bonnets; rivers; oars; shirtless; bare feet; swimming; canoes; East Bay Area living; filmed through windshield; driving POVs; filmed from moving vehicle; California Rodeo Salinas sign on car bumper; Christmas trees; many toys under the tree; rattles; dolls; toy pianos; multi-generational families; pipes; smoking; mixed race group; racial integration; cultural assimilation; toy sailboat on a string; baby in front of dahlias; walking toward camera; posing for camera; unlocking fire box; hiding from camera; children staring at camera; person with camera taking photo; military uniform; 442nd Infantry Regiment jacket; girl with dog; party games; matchstick game; dancing in the living room; dealing cards; babies in bonnets; laughing; dog with a shoe;

Film Sponsor:

Creator: "Carl Hirota, DDS"

Credits:

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: circa 1937, circa 1946

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; California; San Francisco, California; Oakland, California; Salinas, California

Genre/Form: home movie

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 8mm film

Element: positive

Color: color, b&w

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: square circle, square triangle, triangle circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 291