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"body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div id=\"databox-Films\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n Title:Encounter with the Past: American Japanese Internment World War II;\nDate:1980; \nGenre:;\nReleased:;\nDirector:Tak Shindo;\nProducer:Tak Shindo;\nWriter:;\nScreenplay:;\nStory:;\nBasedOn:;\nNarrator:Tak Shindo;\nStarring:Melva Nielson (interviewee); Yukio Tamura; Estelle Ishigo; Toyo Miyatake; Shinobu Mashiko; Tamotsu Tsuchida; Mako;\nMusic:Tak Shindo;\nCinematography:;\nEditing:Jim Schneider;\nStudio:;\nDistributor:Eurasia Publications;\nRuntime:50 minutes;\nCountry:;\nLanguage:;\nBudget:;\nGross:;\nIMDBLink:;\nTrailerLink:;\n </p>\n </div>\n <div class=\"rgonly\">\n <!--\"rgdatabox-CoreDisplay\" removed-->\n <div id=\"rgdatabox-Core\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n RGMediaType:films;\nTitle:Encounter with the Past: American Japanese Internment;\nCreators:;\nInterestLevel:Grades 6-8; Grades 9-12; Adult;\nReadingLevel:;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:Injustice;\nGenre:Documentary;\nPoV:Japanese American incarcerees;\nRelatedEvents:;\nAvailability:No availability;\nFreeWebVersion:No;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:No;\nWarnings:NR (Not Rated);\nDenshoTopic:;\nGeography:Manzanar, California;\nChronology:1942-1945;\nFacility:Manzanar [7];\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <p>\n A 1980 documentary film on the history of the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans at\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Manzanar\" title=\"Manzanar\">\n Manzanar\n </a>\n , produced and directed by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Tak_Shindo\" title=\"Tak Shindo\">\n Tak Shindo\n </a>\n , a\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Nisei\" title=\"Nisei\">\n Nisei\n </a>\n musician and composer, best known for his albums from the jazz exotica music era and television soundtrack work. The film is built around color footage of the camp taken by Aksel Nielson, the director of recreation at Manzanar. Narrated by Shindo, the film includes his own experiences at Manzanar, military service, and subsequent musical career. Though he had passed away prior to the making of the film, Nielson's voice can be heard describing scenes of sporting events and gardens at Manzanar, and his wife, Melva Nielson, a music teacher at Manzanar, is interviewed at length on camera. Among those appearing in the film are\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Military_Intelligence_Service\" title=\"Military Intelligence Service\">\n Military Intelligence Service\n </a>\n veteran Yukio Tamura, artist\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Estelle_Ishigo\" title=\"Estelle Ishigo\">\n Estelle Ishigo\n </a>\n , photographer\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Toyo_Miyatake\" title=\"Toyo Miyatake\">\n Toyo Miyatake\n </a>\n , nursery owner Shinobu Mashiko, Tamotsu Tsuchida, and actor\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Mako\" title=\"Mako\">\n Mako\n </a>\n . With the exception of the Nielsons, Shindo summarizes their comments over the footage of them, so that none of their voices actually are heard in the film. Also included are contemporary scenes of the Manzanar site at that time and of young people revisiting Manzanar, possibly at a\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Camp_pilgrimages\" title=\"Camp pilgrimages\">\n pilgrimage\n </a>\n .\n </p>\n <p>\n The film is notable for being one of the earliest documentaries on the Japanese American exclusion and incarceration experience and for the unique and still rarely seen color footage. In addition to the many scenes of both organized and informal recreational activities at Manzanar (including a performance by the Jive Bombers big band), there is also footage of Manzanar Director\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Ralph_Merritt\" title=\"Ralph Merritt\">\n Ralph Merritt\n </a>\n and of the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Cow_Creek_(detention_facility)\" title=\"Cow Creek (detention facility)\">\n Cow Creek\n </a>\n camp, where inmates threatened by camp violence were removed for their own safety in December 1942.\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n <b>\n Authored by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Brian_Niiya\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n Brian Niiya\n </a>\n , Densho\n </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <p>\n Might also like\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Manzanar (film)/\" title=\"Manzanar (film)\">\n Manzanar\n </a>\n </i>\n (1971);\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Dave Tatsuno: Movies and Memories (film)/\" title=\"Dave Tatsuno: Movies and Memories (film)\">\n Dave Tatsuno: Movies and Memories\n </a>\n </i>\n (2006);\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Emi (film)/\" title=\"Emi (film)\">\n Emi\n </a>\n </i>\n 1979)\n </p>\n <div id=\"RelatedArticlesDisplay\">\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"Related_Articles\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Related_Articles\">\n Related Articles\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p class=\"mw-empty-elt\">\n </p>\n <div id=\"RelatedArticlesSectionDisplay\">\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"\">\n <h3>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"\">\n </span>\n </h3>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p class=\"mw-empty-elt\">\n </p>\n <ul>\n <li>\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Dramatic_films/videos_on_incarceration\" title=\"Dramatic films/videos on incarceration\">\n Dramatic films/videos on incarceration\n </a>\n </li>\n </ul>\n </div>\n </div>\n </div>\n </div>\n </div>\n </div>\n <div class=\"alert alert-success published\">\n <p>\n This page is complete and will be published to the production Encyclopedia.\n </p>\n </div>\n <p>\n <br/>\n </p>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230521153428\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.019 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.025 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 386/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 8595/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 1416/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 6/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 11.618 1 -total\n 23.24% 2.700 1 Template:RelatedArticles\n 20.79% 2.415 1 Template:Databox-Films\n 20.50% 2.382 1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 11.46% 1.332 1 Template:RelatedArticlesSection\n 11.40% 1.324 2 Template:Published\n 11.17% 1.298 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 10.82% 1.257 1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:1692-0!canonical and timestamp 20230521153428 and revision id 28505\n -->\n</div>\n"
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