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Color silent amateur footage (1940's-early 1950's) taken by Terminal Island resident Ben Fukuzaki, primarily of the Japanese American community in and around Fish Harbor, Terminal Island, and San Pedro, California.

This segment (00:50) shows scenes of a wedding; the bride and groom run down church stairs to a car as people shower them with rice; bridesmaids in procession [dark]; the bride and groom exit the car; the bride and groom in an interior [dark].

Credit: Ben Fukuzaki Collection, Gift in Memory of Ben Fukuzaki, Japanese American National Museum (2002.1.1-3). Preserved and made accessible in part by a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.

HNRC — Last modified Aug 24 2012 12:57 a.m.


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