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Toyo's camera : Japanese American history during WWII
(DVD)
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Published
Hollywood, CA : United Television Broadcasting Systems, c2009.
Format
DVD
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Status
Martin Luther College Library - Music Room DVD
D769.8 .A6 T68 2009
1 available
D769.8 .A6 T68 2009
1 available
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Published
Hollywood, CA : United Television Broadcasting Systems, c2009.
Language
English
UPC
884501116626
Notes
General Note
Originally produced in 2008.
General Note
Includes both the English and Japanese laguage versions.
General Note
Special features: trailer; short animation, "Japanese-American history of racial discrimination."
Creation/Production Credits
Chief producer, Shigeto Terasaka ; music, Kitaro.
Participants/Performers
Narrator, George Takei.
Description
While bringing cameras into internment camps was prohibited, one photographer smuggled in his own camera lens and built a camera to take photographs of life behind barbed wires in Manzanar War Relocation Center. That man was photographer Toyo Miyatake. Through an artistic medium, Miyatake captured the devastating conditions during WWII, when Japanese Americans could not belong to Japan or America.
System Details
DVD, 16:9 aspect ratio; stereo.
Language
In English and Japanese with subtitles and intertitles in English or Japanese.
Subjects
LC Subjects
Biographies.
Documentary films.
Japanese Americans -- California -- Biography.
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Manzanar War Relocation Center.
Miyatake, Tōyō.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings.
War films.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- California.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Photography.
Documentary films.
Japanese Americans -- California -- Biography.
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Manzanar War Relocation Center.
Miyatake, Tōyō.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings.
War films.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- California.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Photography.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Suzuki, J., Takei, G., & Kitarō. (2009). Toyo's camera: Japanese American history during WWII . United Television Broadcasting Systems.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Suzuki, Jun'ichi, 1952-, George Takei and Kitarō. 2009. Toyo's Camera: Japanese American History During WWII. United Television Broadcasting Systems.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Suzuki, Jun'ichi, 1952-, George Takei and Kitarō. Toyo's Camera: Japanese American History During WWII United Television Broadcasting Systems, 2009.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Suzuki, Jun'ichi, George Takei, and Kitarō. Toyo's Camera: Japanese American History During WWII United Television Broadcasting Systems, 2009.
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