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Title Forgotten Ellis Island : the extraordinary story of America's immigrant hospital / Boston Film & Video Productions LLC ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; produced, written & directed by Lorie Conway.

Publication Info. [Virginia] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, [2009]

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Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  DVD 304.873 FORGOTTEN    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD 325.1 CON    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  DVD 325.1 FOR    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  DVD 304.873 FORGOTTEN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Media Room DVDs & Blu-rays  DVD 304.873 FORGOTTEN    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction DVD  DVD 325.73 FORGOTTEN    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  DVD 325.1 FORGOTTEN    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (approximately 57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Note Documentary.
System Details DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (enhanced); Dolby Digital stereo., NTSC.
Note Title from container.
Performer Narrator, Elliott Gould.
Credits Director of photography, Ken Willinger ; editor, William A. Anderson ; composer, Gil Talmi.
Event Originally broadcast on television in 2008.
Audience Not rated.
Summary In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital on Ellis Island, and healed from illness before becoming citizens. 350 babies were born, and ten times that many immigrants died on Ellis Island and were buried in pauper's graves around New York City.
Language Closed-captioned.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Ellis Island Hospital.
Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Hospitals -- Admission and discharge -- Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)
Registers of births, etc. -- Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)
Genre/Form Documentary television programs.
Historical television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Conway, Lorie, 1954-
Gould, Elliott.
Boston Film & Video Productions.
WGBH Educational Foundation.
PBS Home Video.
ISBN 0793670241
Standard No. 841887010252
Music No. FGEI601 PBS Home Video
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