Camp Wo-Chi-Ca

CAMP WO-CHI-CA. (1940, silent, 1reel, color, 16mm) Sponsor: Workers’ Children’s Camp Association. production Co.: realfilm productions inc. director: Sidney Kaufman. Camera: Sy Wexler. resources: Copyright not registered; Living Films, 29. Holdings: not reported. Short film documenting one of the first interracial children’s camps in the United States. note: Produced in Kodachrome. Operating between 1935 and 1954, Wo-Chi-Ca was a Communist Party–run camp that hosted such artists in residence as dancer Pearl Primus and actor Paul Robeson. Sy Wexler became an educational filmmaker.