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Passing Poston

Docurama // Unrated // September 23, 2008
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Review by Chris Neilson | posted October 6, 2008 | E-mail the Author
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt ordered the internment of nearly 120,000 Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast. Although 60% of them were American citizens, and there was no credible evidence of disloyalty among them, they were forcibly relocated to ten internment camps in the interior United States. 17,800 of them were sent to the Poston Internment Camp located on a tribal reservation in the Arizona desert where they resided from the spring of 1942 until the end of 1945. In 1998, President Reagan signed legislation formally apologizing for an internment policy predicated on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership".

Journalists Joe Fox and James Nubile direct direct Passing Poston, an hour-long documentary recounting the story of the interment through the recollections of four former Poston internees and excerpts from wartime documentaries. The sense of injustice the aggrieved former internees feel is still palpable. The direction is conventional but competent. There's nothingrevelatory here, but this title will be of interest to those interested in the subject matter and to educators.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt ordered the internment of nearly 120,000 Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast. Although 60% of them were American citizens, and there was no credible evidence of disloyalty among them, they were forcibly relocated to ten internment camps in the interior United States. 17,800 of them were sent to thePoston Internment Camp located on a tribal reservation in the Arizona desert where they resided from the spring of 1942 until the end of 1945. In 1998, President Reagan signed legislation formally apologizing for an internment policy predicated on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership".

Journalists Joe Fox and James Nubile direct direct Passing Poston, an hour-long documentary recounting the story of the interment through the recollections of four former Poston internees and excerpts from wartime documentaries. The sense of injustice the aggrieved former internees feel is still palpable. The direction is conventional but competent. There's nothing revelatory here, but this title will be of interest to those interested in the subject matter and to educators.

Presented in a 1.78:1 letterbox, Passing Poston appears to have been shot on standard definition video. The image has good coloration, but suffers from mild aliasing and a lack of sharp detail. The 2.0 DD audio adequately captures the dialogue though there is no noticeable separation. No subtitles are offered on this release. Audio levels are not consistent between the main feature and the extras.

Extras include the making of Passing Poston (3 min.), 44-minutes of wartime documentaries about the internments, filmmaker bios, and trailers for four other Docudrama releases.

Passing Poston is available individually or bundled with 11 other documentary releases in the Docudrama Film Festival, Volume 5 box set (MSRP $279.95).

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