Color silent amateur films by Dave Tatsuno (1913-2006), a businessman in the San Francisco Bay area. Composed largely of home movie clips, taken 1942-1945, of the environment the Japanese Americans lived in during World War II in forced exclusion at the Topaz concentration camp near Delta, Utah.

This brief segment shows a sign, "Topaz Community Conference, Feb. 11-13 / Adventuring into a NEW WORLD pattern"; the Topaz Swine Office building; men talking; piglets huddled in straw; hogs in pens; piglets playing; hogs; a woman holding a squirming piglet; an unidentified man (00:25).

Credits: Dave Tatsuno Collection, Gift of Dave Tatsuno, in Memory of Walter Honderick, Japanese American National Museum (91.74). Preserved and made accessible in part by a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.