Rev. Sensho Sasaki Collection (96.150)
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Films of Japanese American communities in Los Angeles, Stockton, and Tacoma, 1926-1933, by Buddhist minister, Rev. Sensho Sasaki.
#9: 1) 2 little boys posing for camera;
2) Pan from temple to minister's house. People, lots of automobiles. Various shots of YBA people in front of temple;
3) People posing for photograph;
4) Fujinkai women making bento;
5) People setting up for group shot in front of temple. Long pan of people set up for panorama photograph;
6) 2 boys dressed in soldier outfits, complete with backpack and guns. Playing, shooting, etc. (7:34).
#11: 1 reel of b&w; 16mm film. Scenes include:
1) Chigo, procession down street. Automobiles, scene shot from second story;
2) Children posing for panoramic still.
3) Young woman walking down stairs;
4) Mother and sons, sons in beanies riding bicycles;
5) Swimming in pool;
6) River outing, swimming, boys eating sukiyaki, cooked outdoors;
7) University;
8) Tennis, seals;
9) San Francisco bay, ferry, people on ferry and bridge;
10) Rowing, playing in the snow, snowmen, very short baseball shot;
11) Playing golf;
12) Family in formal attire, touring;
13) Close-up pan of young girls. Girls waving goodbye as man takes off in automobile and heads down street;
14) People in front of temple;
15) Stockton baseball team;
16) Various shots of people at temple, all ages (16:04).
#19: 1) Girls in front of temple(?). Fooling around, dancing the Charleston;
2) Yosemite touring. Various views, some with people. Automobile going through giant redwood tree;
3) 2 young girls posing with father;
4) Tennis;
5) Football;
6) Scruffy children eating (ice cream?). 2 boys playing in snow;
7) Speed boat races;
8) Tennis;
9) Boys and girls having fun posing for camera;
10) Young athletes;
11) Baseball--not Japanese Americans;
12) Children going into temple;
13) Stockton and Yamato baseball teams, close-up pans and action;
14) YMBA (Young Men's Buddhist Association) young men leaving Sacramento; 15) Automobiles in downtown Sacramento (15:34).
Credits: Rev. Sensho Sasaki Collection, Gift of the Sasaki Family, Japanese American National Museum (96.150). Preserved and made accessible in part by a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.
Slides in this album |
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Sasaki children playing (Sasaki_01) |
Tacoma Buddhist Church and YBA members (Sasaki_02) |
YBA members assemble for photograph (Sasaki_03) |
Dignitaries at Tacoma Buddhist Church (Sasaki_04) |
Women's association members preparing bento meals (Sasaki_05) |
Tacoma Buddhist Church members (Sasaki_06) |
Boys playing at Tacoma Buddhist Church parsonage (Sasaki_07) |
Transferring the Stockton Buddhist Temple altar (Sasaki_08) |
Transferring the Stockton Buddhist Temple altar (Sasaki_09) |
Woman and children at Stockton Buddhist Temple (Sasaki_10) |
Swimmers at the Stockton Municipal Baths (Sasaki_11) |
San Joaquin County Courthouse, Stockton (Sasaki_12) |
Teenage boys swimming and eating sukiyaki (Sasaki_13) |
Students at Stockton High School (Sasaki_14) |
Man and woman playing tennis (Sasaki_15) |
Groups at the Stockton Buddhist Temple (Sasaki_27) |
Five girls bid goodbye to a man (Sasaki_24) |
Group assembled for photograph (Sasaki_25) |
YMBA group on a ship (Sasaki_28) |
Girls dancing in front of Stockton Buddhist Temple (Sasaki_29) |
Sea lions in the water (Sasaki_16) |
Man on the beach at San Francisco (Sasaki_17) |
Yosemite (Sasaki_30) |
Speedboat races (Sasaki_36) |
Two men playing tennis (Sasaki_37) |
Crossing San Francisco Bay by ferry (Sasaki_18) |
Two men in a rowboat (Sasaki_19) |
Winter recreation (Sasaki_20) |
Boarding a train (Sasaki_21) |
Golf practice (Sasaki_22) |
A family at the Stockton Buddhist Temple (Sasaki_23) |
Baseball players (Sasaki_26) |
Men among sequoias at Yosemite (Sasaki_31) |
Two girls with a man (Sasaki_32) |
Two men playing tennis (Sasaki_33) |
Football game (Sasaki_34) |
Children at Stockton Buddhist Temple (Sasaki_35) |
Children, posing and jostling (Sasaki_38) |
Football game (Sasaki_39) |
Athletes and coaches (Sasaki_40) |
Baseball game (Sasaki_41) |
Children at Stockton Buddhist Temple (Sasaki_42) |
Baseball players (Sasaki_43) |
YMBA group at the California Capitol (Sasaki_44) |
Young men at a train depot (Sasaki_45) |
Street traffic in Sacramento (Sasaki_46) |
Cow tethered near tennis courts (Sasaki_47) |
Man smoking a cigarette (Sasaki_48) |