PARTNER

OBJECT ID

ddr-densho-1024-95

PARENT COLLECTION

Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films

DESCRIPTION

Documentary film that provides an overview of the Japanese American World War II incarceration experience with a focus on the two camps in Arkansas, Jerome and Rohwer. Time of Fear tells its story using archival still and moving images—including home movie footage of Jerome taken by Akira and Yoshio Hayashi—along with recreations and interviews with Japanese American former inmates (along with Senator Daniel Inouye) and both white and African American Arkansans. In addition to conveying the standard aspects of the expulsion and incarceration story, the documentary covers aspects of the story unique to Arkansas including the impact of segregationist governor Homer Adkins, the mixed reaction of local residents, and the complications of introducing a large population that was neither black nor white into the binary Jim Crow environment.

Original video held at the UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture.

See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: Time of Fear (film).

See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-95.

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CONTRIBUTOR

Densho

PREFERRED CITATION

Courtesy of Japanese American Film Preservation Project, Densho

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