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Wataridori : birds of passage
Title
Wataridori : birds of passage / a Visual Communications Production, Asian American Studies Central, Incorporated ; a film by Robert Nakamura.
Publication
New York, NY : Third World Newsreel, [2012?]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (38 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.
Originally released in 1974.
Music, Dan and June Kuramoto.
Summary
This documentary uses interviews and vintage photographs to explore turn-of-the-century Japanese immigration to America. Three Issei (first generation Japanese Americans) discuss common experiences such as the Depression, prejudice, the World War II internment of Americans of Japanese descent and later pilgrimage to the Manzanar concentration camp.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 15, 2018
Credits
Music, Dan and June Kuramoto.
Performers
Narrators: Mako, Shizuko Hoshi, Yukio Shimoda.
System details note
DVD-R.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Short films.
Short films - United States.
Documentary films.
History.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Short films.
Also listed under
Visual Communications/Asian American Studies Central, production company.
Newsreel (Firm), publisher.
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