Of Japanese Descent

Of Japanese Descent

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 10, 1945

Runtime

0h 22m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Of Japanese Descent

Production Companies

ONF | NFB

Director

D.C. Burritt

Description

A public relations film which implies that the relocation and interment of Japanese Canadians was benign and necessary. Views of a Vancouver slum, idle fishing fleet, and houses on outskirts. Sequences on rehabilitated ghost towns in the Slocan Valley including Nakusp. Sequences on the new town of Tashme being built. Sequences on Japanese making a living cutting firewood, operating lumber mills, farming. Interior of tuberculosis sanatorium and patients. Sequences on Japanese folk festival and dancing. Focus on life in Tashme with shots of happy people, hospital, school, general store, bakery, and a troop of boy scouts.