Home Movie: Koura Collection: 005831 (silent)

Description: A Japanese American family visiting friends and relatives in Japan documents agricultural life in a small coastal town with particular attention to devotional visits to cemeteries and temples, and with historic ways of life in agriculture and fishing.

This reel was filmed at varying frame rates, which means that some of the footage appears sped up or in slow motion. The slow motion sequences also display vertical streaking due to a camera malfunction.

Information on can states: "Japan No 1 1952" / "Middaugh #5"

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Subjects: 1950s, Families, Agriculture, Religion, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Asian and Pacific Islander history and culture, Rural life

Tags: air travel; airplane window perspective; airplane wing; airplanes; jet age; Hotel Tokyo; sign "Loading zone"; posing with friends; suburbia; women wearing uniforms; women in uniforms walking toward camera; school groups; group photos; teachers; school youths; youths in school uniforms; teenagers; adolescents; high angle photography; shorelines; mountains; nature; sign says "Quiet" in English and Japanese; devotion; devotional attention to granite monument; 1950s clothing; 1950s cars; 1950s fashion; people with cameras; "Hakone" sign with arrow; woman make baseball gestures toward camera; woman mimes winding up a pitch; woman mimes batting a ball; Japanese language signage; scenic lakes; lakeshore; dams; man photographing trees; landscapes; waving at camera; rural towns; pachinko "パチンコ" sign; land and water interfacing; marshes; men working by water; elder with baby; families with young children; variable frame rate; elder poses with visitor luggage; boxes of American candy; posing for camera; shaking hands and bowing; airline tote bags; family farms; picking fruit; cultivated plants; cultivated wetlands; native plants; huge butterfly; elders pose for camera; temples; shrines; statues; statuary; Japanese language script; people praying; religious expression; devotional expression; rituals; women wearing kimono; women wearing obi; ceremonial headdress; graves; praying at gravesite; women displaying obi to camera; vegetable gardens; flower gardens; people seated at tea table; women reading document with magnifying glass; bicycles; man with bicycle; wicker basket on bicycle; family posing in ceremonial arrangement with memorial tablets; pan agricultural valley; cemetery views; cemeteries; workers cutting plants in marsh; workers carrying loads of cut grasses through marsh; beaches; fishermen; fishing boats; fishing nets before plastic; hand-woven fishing nets; wicker baskets; film slipping in camera; coastal village; potato harvest; agricultural workers; man carrying potato harvest on shoulder sling; sweet potatoes; camera registration issues; slow motion; monuments; Japanese people; Japanese American people; Asian American people

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Koura Family

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Distributor:

Contributor: Center for Asian American Media

Source Collection: Koura Collection PC-0762, Center for Asian American Media Collection, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1952

Release Date:

Geographical Location: Japan; Hakone, Japan; Tokyo, Japan

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: original, reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

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Edge Code: triangle plus, plus

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 381