Movie Details
Movie Budget:$180,344
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Ephemera Pictures
Vanishing Chinatown: The World of the May’s Photo Studio on the Web:Official Website
Vanishing Chinatown: The World of the May’s Photo Studio
DirectorEmiko Omori
28 min
Plot
The May’s Photo Studio brings families together: in the past by splicing together family portraits in spite of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and in the present by reconnecting May’s granddaughter with her family’s legacy. These stunning photographs show San Francisco’s Chinatown in the early to mid-20th century, a vanishing “old Chinatown” vibrant with culture; an immigrant community becoming Americanized.
