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First to Go: Story of the Kataoka Family.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Current events.
- Human rights.
- History.
- Documentary films.
- Social sciences.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (20 minutes) : .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- New Day Films, 2017.
- [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- A couple hours after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941, Ichiro Kataoka was the first San Francisco Japanese prisoner taken by the FBI from his hotel in Japantown. Through a series of unfortunate events, Ichiro would eventually reunite with his family roughly three years later in Topaz, Utah after President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which forced all Japanese residing on the West Coast to relocate to desolate Internment Camps throughout the country. Their only crime was being of Japanese ancestry. Decades later, though a collection of footage, the Kataoka family legacy is being told through Ichiro's daughter, great grandson, and relatives of what this family had endured. Although this was a dark time in America's history, we find that love and happiness can blossom in the darkest of places.
- Participant:
- Joe Kataoka, Margaret Takemoto, Mary Matsuno, Toshi Handa.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Film.
- Originally produced by New Day Films in 2017.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Herman V. Ames Fund.
- OCLC:
- 1275393311
- Publisher Number:
- 12457820 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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