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Color silent amateur 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.

This segment (01:47) shows the camp's Community Christian Church after Sunday services; people, including some in U.S. military uniform, exit the church and gather in groups; children carry books and walk past the camera; boys play basketball on a dirt court near camp buildings; a distant view of snow-covered Heart Mountain; children gather on steps to be photographed.

Credit: Lloyd Evans Collection, Gift of Reverend Stanley T. Evans, Japanese American National Museum (95.73.1). Preserved and made accessible in part by a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.

HNRC — Last modified Aug 25 2012 8:01 a.m.


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