Topaz
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Topaz
KUED7, University of Utah, c1988
Videorecording（Videodisc）
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In English
Some statement on responsibility from the end roll
Commentary: Roger Walker, Mine Okubo, Edward Ennis, Yoshiko Uchida, Harry Kitano, George Kondo, David Tatsuno, Faith Terasawa, Leonard Arrington, Herbert Maw, Michi Kobi, Tharol Larson, Sam Nakaso, Fumi Hayashi, Mary Kimura, Sherman Tolbert, Arthur Hayashi, Cheryl Roper
Credits: videographer, Carl Seibert ; field engineer, Mike Miles ; cmx editor, Bill Lauer ; audio mix, Steve Holmes ; videotape, Kimball Sant, Kevin Sweet, Ron Graves ; production manager, Doug Schrems
Originally produced in 1987; Copyright by KUED-TV, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1987
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Issued in container (19 cm.)
Summary: "Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor during World War II, thousands of San Francisco Bay area Japanese-Americans were separated from their property, livelihoods, and constitutional rights. Removed from their homes, they were shipped to a windswept stretch of Utah's roughest rangeland. Their crime was their ancestry; their penalty was loss of freedom. KVED documentary filmmaker Ken Verdoia steps into the past to explore Topaz, a war relocation camp in Utah which overnight became the fifth largest city in the state. Through archival film and photographs, as well as interviews with surviving internees and Utah camp workers, Verdoia brings the years of wartime imprisonment vividly to life"--Container
