Home Movie: Koura Collection: 006102 (silent, 1953)

Description: An extended Japanese American family in 1950s rural Washington state picnics on the beach and in their yard, goes on road trips, and celebrates a wedding and Christmas. Notable scenes include small children rough-housing and picking cherries, a large formal wedding, and opening presents on Christmas morning.

can notes: "Middaugh #9 / Koura family picnic / Nagako + Emerson family / [Butch] and Reiko's wedding 1953 / [Nas] + Mary [Mpls] 1953 xmas / Connie, Scotty, Carole 1953"

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Subjects: 1950s, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Families, Children, Rural life, Multiracial people, Celebrations and ceremonies, Holidays

Tags: image extends between perforations; beach picnics; family gatherings; multigenerational families; eating outdoors; backyards; brutalist architecture; No Parking sign; waving at camera; fancy dress; walking toward camera; children playing on lawn; children building a fort outside; children arm wrestling; picking cherries; fruit trees; cats; cat taking a bath; flower arrangements; ikebana; fathers and children; dogs; children petting dogs; multiracial families; hapa children; reservoirs; matching outfits; saddle shoes; Denver t-shirt; splitting wood; public pools; Olympic Hot Springs Resort; cabins; deer; ladies' hats; white gloves; tuxedos; formal dress; parcels; church weddings; ferries; deck chairs; drilling car door?; sidewalks; posing for photos; badlands; desert landscapes; road trips; western United States; driving POV; elders; rocking horses; baby with flashlight; opening Christmas presents; balloons; dolls; Asian American people; Japanese 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: 1953

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Geographical Location: USA; Washington; Bainbridge Island, Washington; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Minnesota; Olympic National Park

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

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Edge Code: triangle plus, square plus

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 286