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.
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Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
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Hospitals -- Admission and discharge -- Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)
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Registers of births, etc. -- Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)
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Genre/Form |
Documentary television programs.
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Historical television programs.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Added Author |
Conway, Lorie, 1954-
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Gould, Elliott.
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Boston Film & Video Productions.
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WGBH Educational Foundation.
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PBS Home Video.
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ISBN |
0793670241 |
Standard No. |
841887010252 |
Music No. |
FGEI601 PBS Home Video |
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