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[Home Movies of Heart Mountain / 1945]
Date1945
Mediumacetate, metal
DimensionsDiam: 7.25 in, W: 1 in
ClassificationsMoving Images
Credit LineGift of Reverend Stanley T. Evans
Object number95.73.1
DescriptionColor home movie footage of the concentration camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming, filmed by Reverend Stanley T. Evans on his trip to visit Reverend Donald Toriumi (of First Presbyterian Church) circa 1943 to 1945. Footage shows general exterior views of camp buildings, barracks, and Wyoming landscape; Japanese American adults and children walking around and leaving church; and camp guards in formation.
0:37 - Heart Mountain vistas and surroundings, tractors/construction
1:14 - Heart Mountain building signage, including hospital, post office, admin, court house
1:41 - Snow covered barracks and ground, Heart Mountain bus
2:10 - People exiting church service (Community Christian Church Sunday School)
2:44 - Portraits (?)
2:56 - Kids playing basketball
2:59 - Barracks exterior with Heart Mountain in the background
3:07 - Children and teenagers with books, forming for a group shot
3:46 - Building with red roof exterior
4:07 - Barracks exterior with laundry hanging
4:11 - Guards at checkpoint
4:34 - US flag waving, barracks exterior
4:52 - Guards in formation
1 film reel (120 ft.) : si., col. ; 16 mm. original pos. , Accompanied by case and handwritten notes (5.75 x 5.5 in.). , Reel is half full.;Color home movie footage of activities at Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming filmed by Reverend Stanley T. Evans who visited Rev. Donald Toriumi at Heart Mountain in 1945. Composed of home movie clips of the environment the Japanese Americans lived in during World War II in forced exclusion, including exterior views of the Community Christian Church Sunday School, Court house, Fire department, United States Postal Service, Hospital, barracks, guard house, trucks and tractors, and the U.S. flag. There is also footage of men in uniform, soldiers drilling, boys playing basketball, children carrying books and walking in front of barracks and people leaving barracks.
0:37 - Heart Mountain vistas and surroundings, tractors/construction
1:14 - Heart Mountain building signage, including hospital, post office, admin, court house
1:41 - Snow covered barracks and ground, Heart Mountain bus
2:10 - People exiting church service (Community Christian Church Sunday School)
2:44 - Portraits (?)
2:56 - Kids playing basketball
2:59 - Barracks exterior with Heart Mountain in the background
3:07 - Children and teenagers with books, forming for a group shot
3:46 - Building with red roof exterior
4:07 - Barracks exterior with laundry hanging
4:11 - Guards at checkpoint
4:34 - US flag waving, barracks exterior
4:52 - Guards in formation
1 film reel (120 ft.) : si., col. ; 16 mm. original pos. , Accompanied by case and handwritten notes (5.75 x 5.5 in.). , Reel is half full.;Color home movie footage of activities at Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming filmed by Reverend Stanley T. Evans who visited Rev. Donald Toriumi at Heart Mountain in 1945. Composed of home movie clips of the environment the Japanese Americans lived in during World War II in forced exclusion, including exterior views of the Community Christian Church Sunday School, Court house, Fire department, United States Postal Service, Hospital, barracks, guard house, trucks and tractors, and the U.S. flag. There is also footage of men in uniform, soldiers drilling, boys playing basketball, children carrying books and walking in front of barracks and people leaving barracks.
Yoritsune, Henry
1930-1956
Honda, William Minoru
1935-1936
Uemura, Susan Hashizume
1953-1954
Fukuzaki, Ben
ca. 1943-1955
circa 1943-1944