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| MOVING
MEMORIES (1993) |
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| SYNOPSIS |
| Americans
of Japanese ancestry have been in the United States since
the 1880s. Yet in the first half of the century,while the
majority of the society was routinely reflected in the popular
media, Japanese Americans were not. They, as well as other
Americans of color, went undocumented in the newsreels and
motion pictures of the day. |
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Nevertheless,
Japanese American gardeners, priests, businessmen—large
and small—even former picture brides began recording
their lives on home movies as soon as the first amateur
cameras became available in 1924. Today they survivie as
the only motion picture documentation of this American group
and provide a never-before-seen look at America in the making.
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| George Takei hosts MOVING MEMORIES, a journey into the 1920s and 1930s featuring restored and edited home movies taken by Japanese American immigrant pioneers as they made America their new home. |
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| EXHIBITION
HISTORY |
| Legacy
Center, Japanese American National Museum, continuous "In
This Great Land of Freedom: Issei Pioneers to Oregon" |
| Oregon
Historical Society, Portland, Oregon, 1994 |
| Western
Treasure Valley Cultural Center, Ontario, Oregon, 1994 |
| Hood River
Historical Museum, Oregon, 1994 |
| Mission
Mill Museum, Salem, Oregon, 1994 |
| hern Oregon
Historical Society, Medford, 1993 |
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| AWARDS
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| CINE Golden
Eagle, (1995) |
| American
Association of State & Local History, Award of Merit, Ohio,
1994 |
| Chicago
International Film Festival, Certificate of Merit, 1992 |
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| FESTIVAL
& SPECIAL SCREENINGS |
| Seattle
Asian American Film Festival, 1996 |
| Yamagata
International Documentary Film Festival, Japan, 1995 |
| National
Video Festival, American Film Institute, Los Angeles, 1994 |
| Hiroshima
Museum of Art, 1995-1996 |
| Tokyo
Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, 1995 |
| Ohita
Prefectural Art Hall, 1995 |
| Robert
Flaherty Seminar for Independent Film & Cinema, 1995 |
| American
Association for State and Local History, 1994 |
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| BROADCAST
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| U-TV,
Honolulu, Hilo, Hawaii, 1995 |
| Excerpts
featured in American Movie Classic (AMC) mini-documentary on
film preservation, 1995 |
| Excerpts
featured in PBS series, "The Great Depression," 1995 |
| New Years
Special on 100+ cable affiliates of the International Channel
Network in 21 states, Guam, Guatemala and Panama, 1994 |
| The 90s
Channel, 8 cable affiliates, 1994 |
| Special
on Japan America Television Broadcast, KSCI-TV, Los Angeles,
1994 |
| Japanese
translation, NHK, throughout Japan, 1994 |
| JMBS-TV,
Osaka, Japan, 1993 |
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| PRODUCTION
CREDITS |
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Produced
by KAREN L. ISHIZUKA
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| Created
and Edited by ROBERT A. NAKAMURA |
| 31 minutes.
Color |
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