Video URL


13184_SFMA_3796_immigration2
Subjects

1946
B&W

A poster for a steam ship headed to America. Ellis Island. Inside, immigrants are waiting to enter the country. Guards check paperwork. A doctor performs medical examinations. An elderly man is rejected. Happy immigrants are accepted into the country. An animated map of the United States shows western spread of immigrants and settlement of Germans, Scandinavians, and Irish. A modern man cultivates soil. Cars driving down a city street. People file out of a church.