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DESCRIPTION:<strong>OUT OF INFAMY: MICHI NISHIURA WEGLYN</strong>\nDirs.: N
 ancy Kapitanoff\, Sharon Yamato\n\nAfter eight years as the costume design
 er for the Perry Como Show\, Michi Nishiura Weglyn (1926-1999) gave up a s
 uccessful career in show business in the mid-1960s to write the book\, &ls
 quo\;Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America&rsquo\;s Concentration C
 amps.&rsquo\; Providing factual evidence of governmental misconduct in the
  incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II\, the award-winni
 ng book\, published in 1976\, was hailed as the &lsquo\;Bible of 20th Cent
 ury Japanese Americans.&rsquo\;\n\n&lsquo\;Out of Infamy&rsquo\; paints a 
 portrait of Weglyn&rsquo\;s dynamic personality\, which evolved via incarc
 eration in the Gila River\, Arizona camp from California-born farm girl to
  New York City sophisticate to the Rosa Parks of Japanese Americans.\n<str
 ong></strong>\n<strong>Video\, 18 min.\, color/black &amp\; white\, docume
 ntary</strong>\n\nThis film is one of 6 non-fiction works being shown by t
 he Los Angeles Pacific Asian Film Festival's Program 47: Going Against the
  Grain.\n\n<a href="http://asianfilmfestla.org/2010/program-guide/program-
 47/" target="_blank">Click here for more information about the slate of wo
 rks that will be shown &gt\;&gt\;</a>\n\nTickets are available at the site
 's box office:\n\n$12 &ndash\; General\n\n$10 &ndash\; Students\, Seniors\
 , &amp\; Members of VC/DGA/JACCC w/ I.D.\n\n<a href="http://asianfilmfestl
 a.org/2010/program-guide/program-47/" target="_blank"></a>
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SUMMARY:Film Screening - Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn
URL:/en/events/2010/05/03/film-screening-out-of-infamy-michi-nishiura-weg/
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