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WWII Japanese American Internment Video Interview Project
Faces of the Past, Voices of the Present
In February of 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 forcing approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans into internment camps for the duration of the Second World War.
During Winter Quarter 2005, in a project led by Professor Judy Wu and supported by the Digital Union, fourty-two students from The Ohio State University interviewed Japanese Americans who were held in these camps.
In sessions at the Digital Union, the students were taught the basics of using a digital video camera, collecting video footage, and how to edit that footage using iMovie and compile it into a short documentary. The documentaries were created using the Digital Union's equipment and multimedia production space with the help of the Digital Union staff. All of the documentaries are now housed at Ohio State University's main library.
Research on Research 2005
During our Research on Research program during Summer Quarter 2005, Genna Duberstein, an undergraduate in both Art and Spanish, was paired with Professor Wu to create a longer documentary incorporating all of the interviews done during Winter Quarter 2005 as a study of the importance of oral history in addition to its preservation.
The final documentary is included not only in the Ohio State University Libraries collection, but also in the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. In March 2006, Genna presented the documentary at the European Social Science History Conference in Amsterdam.
The details of this project, and the final documentary can be viewed on Genna's Research on Research portfolio.
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