Home Movie: Muraoka Collection: 005094 (silent)

Description: Portrait of a Japanese town (part of or near the city of Hiroshima) and countryside, with images of school children playing, fishing communities, farms, Buddhist temples, train stations, and more. Notable scene of a child posing next to an abundant radish harvest, plus presumably an oyster boat and oyster processing facility.

Title card: Our Town
Can note: "1957"

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Subjects: 1950s, Cities, Asian and Pacific Islander history and culture, Agriculture, Schools, Children, Fishing and fisheries, Families, Food

Tags: homemade titles; opening credits; city scenes; office interiors; businessmen; businessmen sitting at their desks and bowing heads to camera; photographer carrying tripod on shoulder; photographer with tripod bowing to camera; schools; classrooms; Japanese schoolchildren; students; children playing musical instruments; children on playground; boys wrestling; building construction; steel frames; building exteriors; main streets; Takeda Shoda plaque; Chickens; playgrounds; swings; farming; flowers; cabbages; turnips; radishes drying; shrines; Yano railroad station sign; train stations; railroads; train tracks; Kure Line; barracks or mass housing; bus stops; birds in trees; scenics; landscapes; terraced agriculture; Buddha statues; shrines; temples; goats; fishing boats; fishermen; fishing communities; fields; markets; women cleaning vegetables in stream; people eating together; sake bottles; reel-to-reel tape recorders; Sony Tapecorder; elders; recording family conversation

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Muraoka Family

Credits:

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Muraoka Collection PC-0089, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1957-12

Release Date:

Geographical Location: Japan; Hiroshima, Japan

Genre/Form: home movie

Language: jpn

Rights:

Film Format: 8mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: color, b&w

Color Process: Fuji

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code:

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 427