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Description
Home movie of pre-World War II Los Angeles, including the Little Tokyo neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Harbor. Footage documents Downtown Los Angeles night traffic, the annual Nisei Week Parade in Little Tokyo (which continues today) that includes footage of Charlie Chaplin giving a speech, scenes of immigrants arriving by ships at the harbor, and construction of Little Tokyo’s historic First Street, including the Kawasaki building, which now houses Anzen Hardware and Fugetsu-do, a family-run confectionary store founded in 1903.. This internegative was obtained through a restoration process performed on the original 1930s 16mm film.
Type
moving image
Format
Internegative 16mm film
Extent
1 Reel of 1
Identifier
calavc_00003
Subject
Japanese Americans--California--History Emigration and immigration Parades--California Teaching California: Families and Primary Sources
Place
Los Angeles (Calif.) Little Tokyo (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Harbor (Calif.)
Provenance
Visual Communications Archives California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
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