Home Movie: 010144 (silent)

Description: A Japanese American family visits Yosemite National Park capturing many spectacular perspectives on the valley, its rock formations, and its flora and fauna. With towering Sequoia trees and the valley as seen from Tunnel View. In a more personal mode, the family visits vineyards and agriculturists of Japanese heritage, possibly family members, and a rice farm before a brief sequence at Blue Heron Lake in Golden Gate Park.

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Subjects: 1950s, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Road trips, Tourism, Parks and monuments, Agriculture

Tags: road trips; Gold country; Sierra foothills; golden hills; oak savannah; wildfire; Yosemite National Park; orchards; California landscapes; picnics; chopsticks; Japanese American families; swimming holes; granite monoliths; tree rings; deer; station wagons; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Yosemite Valley; Tunnel View; mule deer in meadow; Half Dome; car driving down California highway; trucks; agricultural landscapes; tractors and trucks hauling hay bales; closeup of grapes on vine; vineyards; farmers; agriculturists of Japanese heritage; grain towers at dusk; feeding birds at Blue Heron Lake (formerly Stow Lake); Golden Gate Park;

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0105, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1950; 1951

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Geographical Location: USA; California; Yosemite National Park; San Francisco, California; Central Valley, California

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle plus, circle plus

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 397