Summary

IMMIGRATION

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: IMMIGRATION
File Number: AFP-26D 16mm; VTM-26D Beta SP; NET-189 DigiBeta (at 01:48:23:00); Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Educational
Year: 01/01/1946
Description: B W 1946 Origins & number of immigrants entering the USA from colonial times until 1920, reasons for immigration, adjustment of immigrants to life in the USA, drastic reduction of immigration caused by the Act of 1924 (EFL) -Shotlist Detail- 00:14:52:00 B W 1946 (Narrated) 00:14:58:00 B W 1946 ms Busy pedestrian sidewalk scene in New York City in retail- store shopping section 00:15:04:00 B W 1946 ms Closer look at the pedestrian filled sidewalk crowds Note clothing styles of the mid 1940s 00:15:08:00 B W 1946 ms Fans seated in ballpark stands looking at game 00:15:13:00 B W 1946 cu Map of both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Africa, and the Americas Amimated arrow lines emanate from Europe outward to the rest of the world 00:15:30:00 B W 1946 cu Focus on emigrationlines to United States 00:15:33:00 B W 1946 cu Map of the US, 1789 Population symbols on map 00:15:41:00 B W 1946 cu Repeat of world map with an amimated floodlightfocus on Britain to US Then other light lines from other European countries to the US 00:15:49:00 B W 1946 cu Repeat world map : 1820-1890 Animated arrow spearhead from Europe to US Population symbols 00:16:33:00 B W 1946 cu Map of the Pacific Ocean areas Animated arrow spearheads from Asia to US Population symbols 00:17:00:00 B W 1946 cu Repeat world map: 1891-1920 Again, animated arrow spearhead from Europe to US Population symbols 00:17:32:00 B W 1946 ms Illustrative portrayal sequence in an immigration steamship office in Europe circa 1890s Note clothing costumes representing Eastern Europe, 00:17:48:00 B W 1946 ms Farmer and wife hoeing and planting on farmland 00:18:06:00 B W 1946 ms Return to the scene in the immigration office Portrayals of immigrant types in Cu 00:18:18:00 B W 1946 ms Illustration of helmeted soldiers (police) searching a refugee in his home and then taking him off to captivity 00:18:38:00 B W 1946 ms Refugee family in costume 00:18:41:00 B W 1946 ms Soviet style dressed soldier-police take Jewish captive, holding candlestick menorah away to prison Rabbi holding prayer book witnesses the event 00:18:49:00 B W 1946 cu Boot kicks the menorah candlesticks 00:19:00:00 B W 1946 ms Refugee family Repeat of #1364(immigration steamship office) 00:19:15:00 B W 1946 cu Steamship poster 00:19:22:00 B W 1946 ms Ellis Island 00:19:28:00 B W 1946 ms Illustrative portrayal of Ellis Island immigrant examination line US immigration officers at passage gates, medical doctor examines arriving refugees for illness Other refugees on line, walking next to the gates 00:20:12:00 B W 1946 cu Map of US showing borders of States Amimated westward expansion bars 1900, and settlement designations 00:20:45:00 B W 1946 ms Farmer behind a horse drawn plow, works the field 00:20:51:00 B W 1946 ms Small town main street Car styles of the early 1940s 00:20:58:00 B W 1946 ms EXT Church Sunday worshipers 00:21:07:00 B W 1946 ws Factory smokestacks in a grouping, with all white shafts and black tipped heads 00:21:12:00 B W 1946 ms Tenement(slum) backyard, fire escapes and clotheslines 00:21:16:00 B W 1946 ms Lower East Side street Pushcarts Tenements, sidewalk crowds, Trucks 00:21:30:00 B W 1946 cu Ethnic Lower East Side businesses, with signs in various languages (Italian, Chinese, Yiddish, ?Hungarian, Spanish): Ed RossiLibreria Italiana Dischi-Calendari, Bocce-Oggetti Religiosi-Mulberry St 127Cor Hester St Wing Woh Lung Co All Yiddish sign on the lower east side Negyes Dohany Gyar Se Solicita Operarias Section work-piece work=good payentrada 00:21:37:00 B W 1946 ms Push cart, seller and buyer 00:21:43:00 B W 1946 ms Elderly Jewish man sitting on a stoop, wearing skull cap, and reading yiddish newspaper 00:21:49:00 B W 1946 ms Little Italy sidewalk scene Mother, baby carriage, young children outdoors in the summertime 00:21:53:00 B W 1946 ms Worshipers leaving church, gather on sidewalk 00:21:59:00 B W 1946 ms Grouping of newspapers of different and varied linguistic and national origins 00:22:04:00 B W 1946 ms Sidewalk newspaper stand, loaded with mags and papers Bus Stop 00:22:08:00 B W 1946 ms Members outside a Union office 00:22:15:00 B W 1946 ms Adult or worker classroom in session 00:22:20:00 B W 1946 cu HR 7995A BillHouse of Representatives(refers to 1924 law to restrict immigration) 00:22:32:00 B W 1946 cu Animated map (as previously shown) with bars radiating showing immigration movement from Europe to US Also, population symbols (in a flow movement) 00:23:06:00 B W 1946 cu US map showing stateside immigration from Canada and Mexico Population symbols 00:23:32:00 B W 1946 cu VS heads of people of the US showing diverse types of workers (eg Train motorman, seamstress at sewing machine, concert violinist, mechanic, fashion designer, scientist, lather, engineer, lawyer type) 00:23:49:00 B W 1946 ms Students on way to classes outside a suburban high school 00:23:54:00 B W 1946 ms Inside a classroom as teacher and students work with a wall map hangs from the blackboard 00:24:07:00 B W 1946 ms Inside and adult classroom for recent immigrants to the US Working at the blackboard 00:24:17:00 B W 1946 ms Front entrance to US Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service 00:24:24:00 B W 1946 ms Inside the Agency, group of new citizens pledge allegiance 00:24:34:00 B W 1946 ms Judge swears in large number of new citizens 00:24:40:00 B W 1946 ms TU Statue of Liberty Narration ends and fade out
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