Naokichi Hashizume Collection (92.18.9)
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Color amateur footage documenting life in Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming by Naokichi Hashizume in February 1945. Composed of home movie clips of Japanese Americans engaged in a variety of activities, including people gathering at mess hall, laundry in industrial sinks, sewing and knitting, paper flower making for a wreath, mochitsuki from steaming rice to pounding into mochi to forming mochi, and a winter carnival. There is also footage of exterior and interior views of barracks, windstorms, basketball, girls dressed in kimono playing koto, children playinig in snow, and people playing the board game Go. Some footage in reverse with children on slides, bike riding and a fire engine speeding by (23:18). Credits: Naokichi Hashizume Collection, Gift of the Hashizume, Uemura and Ouchi Families, Japanese American National Museum (92.18.9). Preserved and made accessible in part by a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.
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Overviews of Heart Mountain camp (Hashizume_01) |
Naokichi Hashizume Collection (92.18.9) [2 of 23]
Winter at Heart Mountain (Hashizume_02) |
Naokichi Hashizume Collection (92.18.9) [3 of 23]
People and buildings at Heart Mountain (Hashizume_03) |
Naokichi Hashizume Collection (92.18.9) [4 of 23]
Loading and carting coal (Hashizume_04) |
Naokichi Hashizume Collection (92.18.9) [5 of 23]
Three young girls and a baby (Hashizume_05) |
Naokichi Hashizume Collection (92.18.9) [6 of 23]
Girl and boy playing with toy airplanes (Hashizume_06) |
Naokichi Hashizume Collection (92.18.9) [7 of 23]
Dining hall at Heart Mountain (Hashizume_07) |
Naokichi Hashizume Collection (92.18.9) [8 of 23]
Two girls playing koto in Japanese costume (Hashizume_08) |
Naokichi Hashizume Collection (92.18.9) [9 of 23]
Children playing Chinese checkers (Hashizume_09) |
Naokichi Hashizume Collection (92.18.9) [10 of 23]
Family quarters at Heart Mountain (Hashizume_10) |
Naokichi Hashizume Collection (92.18.9) [11 of 23]
Laundry operations at Heart Mountain (Hashizume_11) |
Naokichi Hashizume Collection (92.18.9) [12 of 23]
Handcrafting paper flowers; assembling flower wreaths (Hashizume_12) |
Naokichi Hashizume Collection (92.18.9) [13 of 23]
Men playing board games (Hashizume_13) |
Naokichi Hashizume Collection (92.18.9) [14 of 23]
Celebrating New Year's by making mochi (Hashizume_14) |
Naokichi Hashizume Collection (92.18.9) [15 of 23]
Winter recreation at Heart Mountain (Hashizume_15) |
Naokichi Hashizume Collection (92.18.9) [16 of 23]
Basketball game at Heart Mountain (Hashizume_16) |
Naokichi Hashizume Collection (92.18.9) [17 of 23]
Recreation at Heart Mountain (Hashizume_17) |
Naokichi Hashizume Collection (92.18.9) [18 of 23]
Recreation at Heart Mountain [reversed] (Hashizume_18) |
Naokichi Hashizume Collection (92.18.9) [19 of 23]
Winter recreation at Heart Mountain (Hashizume_19) |
Naokichi Hashizume Collection (92.18.9) [20 of 23]
Dining hall at Heart Mountain (Hashizume_20) |
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Winter recreation at Heart Mountain (Hashizume_21) |