The hub since the 1920’s of San Francisco’s Manilatown, the International Hotel provided low-cost housing for seamen, farm and cannery workers, houseboys and other immigrant Filipinos. Curtis Choy’s documentary chronicles the I-Hotel’ s demise, and the political mobilization that brought together community activists, organized labor and senior citizens’ groups in an effort to prevent its demolition. Revised in 1993. See also DVD, AT # 67999.