Home Movie: Muraoka Collection: 004897 (silent)

Description: A Los Angeles area family of Japanese heritage with young children celebrates family time, food, community, and cultural events with extended family and friends. Picnics and playtime as well as pounding rice cake and other food preparation activity are joyful activities shared. Contrasting sequences show sober, respectful times at memorial events and gravesites honoring elders both living and lost.

Note on can:
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Subjects: 1950s, Families, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Parks and monuments, Food

Tags: families; children; park; picnic; picnic table; woman with camera; siblings; community; tatami mats; wrestling; boys wrestling; martial arts; Judo; rock band; foot race; landscaping; Japanese garden; water feature; coastline; coastal bluff; Palos Verdes peninsula; Marineland of the Pacific; Sea World; trained sea lion; parenting; fatherhood; neighborhood; dusky light; Christmas; home interior; pounding; rice masher; wooden mallet; mochi; Mochi; rice cake; rice cake assembly; greenhouses; laundry; cemetery; grave sites; mourning; memorials; survivors; elders; seniors; family reunion; camp reunion; internment camps; concentration camps; Japanese Internment; birthday parties; cemeteries

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Muraoka Family

Credits:

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Muraoka Collection PC-0089, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1957

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; California; Los Angeles County, California

Genre/Form: home movie

Language: Japanese

Rights:

Film Format: 8mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: square

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 210