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Black and white silent amateur films by Dave Tatsuno (1913-2006), a businessman in the San Francisco Bay area. Tatsuno's earliest films, taken from August-November 1936 while he was an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, show family, church, and school activities.

This segment (03:06), filmed August 23, 1936, shows an excursion to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park by Tatsuno with his father Shojiro, sister Chiye, brother Masateru ("Tut"), and friend Wilbur; feeding swans and ducks; standing on a Japanese bridge; seals at the San Francisco Zoo.

Tatsuno's notes on this clip: "One Sunday at Golden Gate Park. Characters: Dad, Chiye, Wilbur, Tut and Dave."

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.

HNRC — Last modified Aug 25 2012 9:07 a.m.


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