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Color and black-and-white films, ca. 1930s-1960s, of activities of the Yamada family in Los Angeles, California.

This brief black-and-white segment, from the late 1930s, shows a Yamada family wedding banquet at Kawafuku Restaurant in Los Angeles (00:20); a dancer in Japanese costume performs for the guests.

Credits: Yamada Family Collection, Gift of Tsuneko Yamada, Japanese American National Museum (2005.104.1). Preserved and made accessible in part by a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.

HNRC — Last modified Aug 25 2012 2:27 p.m.


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