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. Narrator Al Robles. See also vhs, AT # 82372. Curtis Choy.