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Black and white silent amateur films by Dave Tatsuno (1913-2006), a businessman in the San Francisco Bay area. Among Tatsuno's earliest films, taken in 1936-1937, these generally show family events, and meetings of the Young People's Christian Conference, in which Tatsuno was active.

This brief segment was filmed October 10, 1936, while Tatsuno was an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley; a title board, "12th Annual / NC YPCC / Berkeley / Oct 10 1936"; Tatsuno's girlfriend (later his wife), Alice Okada; participants in the Northern California Young People's Christian Conference assembled for a group picture (00:22).

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 1:03 p.m.


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