Home Movie: Koura Collection: 006119 (silent)

Description: A strawberry harvest on the Japanese-American-owned Koura farm, followed by the workers enjoying watermelon and Coca-Cola, and the kids playing games, likely on a 4th of July holiday. Also includes members of the Koura family visiting people in British Columbia, Canada.

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: "Lucy O. 6 / 1960 Berry Harvest / 1962 Port Renfrew / Cowichan Bay Port Alberni" and "18 / Middaugh #17(18) left original leader break in"

reel notes: "Lucy O. 6 / Middaugh #17(18)"

note in can: "5C 17min"

cyan lab stamp: Processed by Kodak JAN 63

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Subjects: 1960s, Agriculture, Labor, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Children, Games and play, Families, Rural life, Indigenous people

Tags: workers in strawberry fields; showing strawberries on plant to camera; agricultural workers; harvesting strawberries; children working in fields; workers eating watermelon on break; families sitting on grass eating watermelon; three-legged races; field day; portraits of people sitting on school bus; frisbees; people smiling; drinking Coca-Cola from glass bottles; Pacific Northwest landscapes; PNW; low fog; mist; coniferous forests; working class communities; bays; "Hills Shopping Centre" sign; puffy clouds; walking down dirt road; walking toward camera; "Bowling" neon sign; waving at camera from balcony; 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: 1960; 1962

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; Washington; Bainbridge Island, Washington; Canada; Vancouver Island, British Columbia; British Columbia; Port Renfrew, Vancouver Island, British Columbia; Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Genre/Form: home movie

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Rights:

Film Format: 8mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome, Kodachrome II

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type:

Edge Code: circle circle, circle square

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 194