Home Movie: Koura Collection: 006107 - Part 2 (silent)

Description: Reel begins with winter scenes in Japan and a visit to a shrine, then follows the Koura family's travels by ocean liner to Hawai'i and San Francisco. The second half appears to depict travel by car through California and the Pacific Northwest and includes scenes of a parade in what is likely Seattle and a large picnic gathering of Japanese American elders.

The contents of this film is in multiple files due to a scanning issue. Rapid speed in second file perhaps caused by camera malfunction.

can notes: "Middaugh #7 / Produced by: H.O. Koura Rt Box 229 3 (Japan)"

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Subjects: 1940s, 1950s, Tourism, Leisure and recreation, Transportation, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Parades and processions

Tags: winter scenes; snow; blizzards; shrines; pagodas; posing for camera; loading car trunk with luggage; group walking on dock towards ocean liner; boarding cruise ship; passenger ships; President Cleveland ship; streamers; flower shows; orchids; irises; leis; greenhouses; flowers; Hawaiin landscapes; bowing and shaking hands; cemeteries; gulls flying overhead; Japanese people on deck of boat; boat traveling under Golden Gate Bridge; Marin Headlands from the bay; Alcatraz; San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge with multi-colored tower; slow motion photography of boy yo-yoing; car pulling out of garage; camera registration issues; "Give Ride to Village" sign; fruit trees; orange groves; covered crops; cows grazing on green rolling hills; greenhouse interiors; house under construction; posing for camera; train crossing river; group of people walking on large suspension bridge; ferry boats; golden hour; blimp flying overhead; blimps; picnics; people bowing; cat sitting in grass; cats; parade floats; amusement rides; mini trains; Seattle Buddhist Church Drill Teams banner; Japanese American people; Asian American people; travel; girl in tree

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: circa 1950

Release Date:

Geographical Location: Japan; Hawai'i; USA; California; San Francisco, California; Washington

Genre/Form: home movie

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Rights:

Film Format: 8mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

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Edge Code: circle, triangle plus

Frame Rate: 16 fps,24 fps

Length (feet): 268