# Home Movie: Hirota Collection: 071160

Pre-World War II footage of a Japanese American family and friends spending time together in and around San Francisco, celebrating birthdays and holidays and enjoying summer time at a river beach. Featuring scenes in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco's Japantown; the East Bay; a visit to a Japanese-owned vegetable farm, presumably in Salinas; and scenes of intermingling with white neighbors. One scene shows Dr. Carl T. Hirota standing on the sidewalk in San Francisco's Western Addition wearing his 442nd Infantry Regiment Army jacket.

- Kind: Home movie
- By: Carl Hirota, DDS
- Genres: Children's, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/203473_Hirota_Collection_071160)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/203473_Hirota_Collection_071160?play=1)