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Topaz is a film of genre Documentary
Topaz (1945)
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Add to a movie listThemes Prison films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Rating62%
Topaz is a 1945 documentary film, shot illegally (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.
Filmed by internee Dave Tatsuno (1913–2006), it was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress in 1996, and was the second amateur film ever selected for preservation in the National Film Registry (behind the "Zapruder" film of the JFK assassination).
Tatsuno always credited his store supervisor, Walter Honderick, for helping him get the movie camera into the camp. Film was smuggled out of the camp on trips that Tatsuno made to buy merchandise for the store.
While images appear to show the internees happy and enjoying their lives, Tatsuno said that they were "hamming it up" for the camera, hiding their sorrow.
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