Tanforan, race track to assembly center / San Mateo County Community College District.

The Tanforan Race Track was the site of a war internee assembly center in 1942, where thousands of Japanese Americans lived for as long as six months while the more permanent World War II internment camps were being built inland. The first in-depth study of an assembly center and the beginnings of n...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: San Mateo County Community College District (Production company)
CrossCurrent Media (Production company)
National Asian American Telecommunications Association (distribution company.)
Other Authors: Fukami, Dianne (Film director, Film producer)
Young, Donald, 1967- (Film producer)
Yanehiro, Jan (Narrator)
Language:English
Subjects:
Tanforan Assembly Center (San Bruno, Calif.)
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Internment camps > California > San Mateo.
Japanese Americans > Interviews.
San Mateo (Calif.) > History.
Motion pictures in propaganda > United States.
Nazi concentration camps.
Japanese Americans.
Motion pictures in propaganda.
California > San Mateo.
United States.
1942-1945
Nonfiction films.
Historical films.
Documentary films.
History.
Interviews.
Internment camps.
Genre:
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Historical films.
Documentary films.
History.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Tanforan, from race track to assembly center
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
The Tanforan Race Track was the site of a war internee assembly center in 1942, where thousands of Japanese Americans lived for as long as six months while the more permanent World War II internment camps were being built inland. The first in-depth study of an assembly center and the beginnings of new cultural and social systems which were developed and then transferred to the permanent camps. Includes examples of propaganda against Japanese-Americans in 1942.
Note:Digitized for preservation purposes from VHS version published by CrossCurrent Media and National Asian American Telecommunications Association in 1995.
Originally produced in the United States as a motion picture in 1995 as part of The new Americans series.
Call Number:D769.8.A6 T364 1995a VideoDVD
Credits:Producers, Dianne Fukami, Donald Young ; director, Dianne Fukami ; editor, Kiki Tormey.
System Details:Burned DVD (DVD-R), all regions, NTSC format.
Participant or Performer:
Narrator: Jan Yanehiro.