Farewell To Manzanar Theme Essay

at the Tule Lake location spoke about it for this article, beginning in a lunch conversation in 2012 with Korty, as the film’s director, and Lope Yap, Jr., who served as unit manager and location manager.Korty, who is based in Marin County, was then working on a documentary, , about organic peach farmer and author David Mas Masumoto, a member of the National Council on the Arts.

at the Tule Lake location spoke about it for this article, beginning in a lunch conversation in 2012 with Korty, as the film’s director, and Lope Yap, Jr., who served as unit manager and location manager.Korty, who is based in Marin County, was then working on a documentary, , about organic peach farmer and author David Mas Masumoto, a member of the National Council on the Arts.

He said, “I was going to Tule Lake for the weekend to drop some equipment off.” People had questions about the production. A weekend became three and a half months, marooned.” He had his clothing sent to him piecemeal: “Oh, I’ll be here another week, send up another shirt or two.” His production tasks included rounding up period artifacts, from a washing machine to a bus. It was crazy, it was nutty, it was actually enjoyable.” “I learned a lot from Tule Lake,” he said.

He called them in to his boss, who said, “Well, why don’t you go answer them? “It’s a big chapter in my 40-some-odd years in the business.” Korty remembered arriving to see an alarming banner over a street saying, “Unload Your Guns.” It was addressed to duck hunters. Its high school team is still called the “Honkers.” But in the middle 20th century, even into the 1970s, duck hunting had a lot more to do with the town’s identity and livelihood than it does now.

“Drew and I constructed the corner of the fencing and we brought a part of the security tower to give you that little edge that you and I are really in this environment, but if you pan one inch in either direction, we are in 1975 and there’s nothing here.

You just assume there’s hundreds if not thousands of people in this little moment where, you know, Yuki goes to the fence…and there’s [Mt.] Whitney in the background.” Then, he said, the view shifts to a miniature model of the camp, filmed in a small room of John Korty’s office.

The cast and extras spent a day filming the riot scene at Santa Anita Jail in Alameda County.

(Kinoshita, who was a small-plane pilot, flew Yap down to Livermore for the day from Klamath Falls.) Some scenes from the Justice Department detention of the central family’s father, Ko Wakatsuki, are probably at Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County, which was also used as a set for the Manzanar riot scene.

In the completed film, while Manzanar is reenacted in the foregrounds, Tule Lake shows through in the outdoor backgrounds, like an underlayer of cloth in a subtly different pattern.

Eyes familiar with the Tule Lake Basin will notice its differences from the Owens Valley: tawny dry grass instead of gray sagebrush; slopes that are nearer, lower, and lumpier than the austere Sierra foothills behind the real Manzanar; black volcanic rimrock at the skylines instead of remote high granite.

The Wild West “Tule Lake, I have to tell you—It was really a wild…Wild West out there when I was there,” said Yap.

“I imagine not much has changed.” The authors of the original , and is cowritten with Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston.) Among the film’s staff, Yap saw the most of the place because he unexpectedly became the advance man and local liaison for the production.