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 segment (00:42) shows ten young people posing for the camera (5 boys, 5 girls, including one Caucasian); the Topaz Hi-Y club, a YMCA high school group started by Tatsuno, poses in jackets and ties (including student Paul Bell, a camp administrator's son, and high school teacher Emil Sekerak).

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.