Excerpts from home movies documenting the every day live of Japanese immigrants in the U.S. between 1920 and 1938.
Montage produced by the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, USA.

As part of her seminar at the EHESS in Paris (year 2007 to 2008) on migration and diaspora communities, Monica Raisa Schpun reveals a series of home movies made by Japanese living in the U.S. and documenting their daily life during the period between 1920 and 1938.

This series of home movies is, in effect, an edit/montage produced by the Japanese American National Museum - montage that reproduces, in other words, a certain vision of the integration of Japanese immigrants in American society. It should therefore be distinguished between the analysis of the edit/montage itself of amateur films offered by the Museum and that of each of the films/filmic shoots produced by Japanese amateur film writers themselves.