Topaz (1945)
- Directed by
- Dave Tatsuno
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 48 min
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This film shows daily life inside a Japanese American internment camp during World War II. It was shot secretly by an internee using a hidden camera.
observationalintimatehistoricalrestrainedquietly defiantunderstatedpersonaldocumentary-style
What happens
Topaz is a 1945 documentary film, shot illegally by internee Dave Tatsuno (1913–2006), (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. Tatsuno went through a unique and challenging filming process in order to produce his movie due to lack of freedom within the internment camps that hindered his ability to film his experiences. The film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress in 1996, and was the second amateur film ever selected for the National Film Registry (after the "Zapruder" film of the JFK assassination). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Three Came Home (1950)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.