Home Movie: Koura Collection: 005389 (silent)

Genre: home movie

Description:

Description: Cinematic study of summer days of picking, harvesting, and assembling a strawberry harvest on the Japanese-American-owned Koura farm with long attention to the work and workers toiling in the fields and with peripheral attention to the activities of children and visitors and the surrounding Pacific Northwest landscape. One highlight of this reel is a long section that is double exposed, introducing an element of visual poetry to the document.

Includes images of Indigenous people from Canada and Washington state who came each year as seasonal workers for the berry harvest, as well as possibly workers of Filipino heritage and other ethnicities.

can notes:
2
1953 Berry Harvest

paper note in can:
1953
3C 22 min

note on reel:
Lucy O.
2

Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com.

Subjects: 1950s, Agriculture, Labor, Families, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Indigenous people

Tags: work culture; strawberry harvest; strawberries; people at work; flats of berries; wooden crates of berries; workers smiling at camera; berry farms; assembling flats; loading flats; loading into truck; people smoking cigarettes; integrated group of workers; man hoisting flat of berries to the sky and displaying to camera; smiling; making music; people with percussion sticks; drumming; barn interiors dark; hoedown; parties; family farms; dusk; twilight; 1950s cars; 1950s clothing; 1950s fashions; 1950s hairstyles; women picking strawberries; children picking strawberries; elders; Cocker Spaniel dogs; family posing for camera with strawberries and dog; California poppies; three generations; driving away; waving at camera from car; huge field of strawberries; dozens of workers picking berries; harvesting berries; double exposure of farm labor; children playing in mud puddle; multiethnic group of children; multiethnic farm workers; overexposed film; farm fields; U Drive Truck Rental; close-up of berries on the vine; information on truck states 5th & S. Park Mobil Service, Bremerton, Washington; young child showing berries to camera; child standing in front of wooden crates that read "Santa Cruz" and "Pictsweet"; mashing berry onto face; eating large berry in a performative mode; man displaying unpicked berries to camera; man displaying berry plants to camera; people of size; Douglas Fir trees in distance; Pacific Northwest ecosystem; young boy working in the fields displaying box of berries to camera; eating berries; underexposed; image extends between perforations; Japanese American people; Asian American people; Indigenous people of North America; possible people of Filipino heritage; seasonal labor; migrant agricultural laborers; farm workers; farmworkers; farmhands

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Koura Family

Credits:

Distributor:

Contributor: Center for Asian American Media

Source Collection: Koura Collection PC-0762, Center for Asian American Media Collection, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1953

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; Washington; Bainbridge Island, Washington

Genre/Form: home movie

Language:

Rights:

Film Format: 8mm film

Element: original, reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code:

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 310

Complete Record: Description: Cinematic study of summer days of picking, harvesting, and assembling a strawberry harvest on the Japanese-American-owned Koura farm with long attention to the work and workers toiling in the fields and with peripheral attention to the activities of children and visitors and the surrounding Pacific Northwest landscape. One highlight of this reel is a long section that is double exposed, introducing an element of visual poetry to the document. Includes images of Indigenous people from Canada and Washington state who came each year as seasonal workers for the berry harvest, as well as possibly workers of Filipino heritage and other ethnicities. can notes: 2 1953 Berry Harvest paper note in can: 1953 3C 22 min note on reel: Lucy O. 2 Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1950s, Agriculture, Labor, Families, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Indigenous people Tags: work culture; strawberry harvest; strawberries; people at work; flats of berries; wooden crates of berries; workers smiling at camera; berry farms; assembling flats; loading flats; loading into truck; people smoking cigarettes; integrated group of workers; man hoisting flat of berries to the sky and displaying to camera; smiling; making music; people with percussion sticks; drumming; barn interiors dark; hoedown; parties; family farms; dusk; twilight; 1950s cars; 1950s clothing; 1950s fashions; 1950s hairstyles; women picking strawberries; children picking strawberries; elders; Cocker Spaniel dogs; family posing for camera with strawberries and dog; California poppies; three generations; driving away; waving at camera from car; huge field of strawberries; dozens of workers picking berries; harvesting berries; double exposure of farm labor; children playing in mud puddle; multiethnic group of children; multiethnic farm workers; overexposed film; farm fields; U Drive Truck Rental; close-up of berries on the vine; information on truck states 5th & S. Park Mobil Service, Bremerton, Washington; young child showing berries to camera; child standing in front of wooden crates that read "Santa Cruz" and "Pictsweet"; mashing berry onto face; eating large berry in a performative mode; man displaying unpicked berries to camera; man displaying berry plants to camera; people of size; Douglas Fir trees in distance; Pacific Northwest ecosystem; young boy working in the fields displaying box of berries to camera; eating berries; underexposed; image extends between perforations; Japanese American people; Asian American people; Indigenous people of North America; possible people of Filipino heritage; seasonal labor; migrant agricultural laborers; farm workers; farmworkers; farmhands Film Sponsor: Creator: Koura Family Credits: Distributor: Contributor: Center for Asian American Media Source Collection: Koura Collection PC-0762, Center for Asian American Media Collection, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: 1953 Release Date: Geographical Location: USA; Washington; Bainbridge Island, Washington Genre/Form: home movie Language: Rights: Film Format: 8mm film Element: original, reversal Color: color Color Process: Kodachrome Sound or Silent: silent Film Soundtrack Type: mos Edge Code: Frame Rate: 16 fps Length (feet): 310