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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Dave Tatsuno, a Japanese-American businessman whose clandestine home movies inside a Utah World War II internment camp were later compiled into the documentary "Topaz," died January 26th. He was 92.
Tatsuno died of congestive heart failure at his home in San Jose.
He and his family were interned in 1942 at the Topaz Relocation Center in the Utah desert, where for three years he covertly chronicled birthday parties, church services and other daily events using a smuggled eight-millimeter camera and film.
His footage was later compiled into the 48-minute silent film "Topaz" that in 1996 was placed on the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. It is included in the permanent collection of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.
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