Topaz (1945 film)
6.4 /10 1 Votes
Duration Director Dave Tatsuno Genres History, Documentary | 6.4/10 Initial release 1945 Running time 48 minutes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Topaz is a 1945 documentary film, shot illegally (though with the assistance of members of the camp staff), which documented life at the Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah during World War II.
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Filmed by internee Dave Tatsuno (1913–2006), it was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress in 1996, and was the second amateur film ever selected for preservation in the National Film Registry (behind the "Zapruder" film of the JFK assassination).
Tatsuno always credited his store supervisor, Walter Honderick, for helping him get the movie camera into the camp. Film was smuggled out of the camp on trips that Tatsuno made to buy merchandise for the store.
While images appear to show the internees happy and enjoying their lives, Tatsuno said that they were "hamming it up" for the camera, hiding their sorrow.
Video from the topaz utah japanese internment camp during wwii
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Topaz (1945 film) WikipediaTopaz (1945 film) IMDb Topaz (1945 film) themoviedb.org