Home Movie: Koura Collection: 005390 (silent)

Description: A Japanese American farming family's new irrigation system is the showpiece of the first half of this reel. Once the fields are irrigated, the camera's attention moves along with the season to summer days of picking, harvesting, and assembling a strawberry harvest in the Pacific Northwest 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 landscape.

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

can notes:

Middaugh #3

1952 Berry Harvest

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Irrigation

Ditching [---]

paper note in can:

1952

2A 22 min

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

Tags: backhoes; ditch diggers; irrigation ditch; water flowing through new ditches; backhoe operator raising digger to sky performatively for camera; sprinkler systems; water sprinklers; strawberry fields; irrigation systems; pump at work at reservoir; pallet used to support water pump; strawberry fields; strawberry plants growing; possible oyster shell used for fertilizer; sprinkler nozzles; water lines; young children play around car; women smoking cigarettes; women and children dressed up; fancy dress; women grooming children; flower gardens; Japanese maple trees; children posing with tree; crop rotation; fields planted with grasses; man driving tractor; harvester mowing grass crop; closeup stalks of wheat waving in the breeze; parenthood; fatherhood; workers loading flats into truck; "Driscoll strawberries" flat; diverse assembly of farm workers; dungarees; children helping with loading flats; close-ups of strawberry plants; workers smiling at camera; worker displaying berries to camera; man eating berry for camera; people picking strawberries; harvesting strawberries; workers and owner pose together; workers take a tea break; 1950s clothing; 1950s trucks; 1950s cars; 1950s fashions; worker smoking cigarette while picking berries; workers wearing army hats; family farms; 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: 1952

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; Washington; Bainbridge Island, Washington

Genre/Form: home movie

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Rights:

Film Format: 8mm film

Element: original, reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: square plus

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 310