The story of immigration into the U S from colonial times to the present day, stressing the contribution made by people of many origins to the building of America. 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 “emigration”lines 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 “floodlight”focus 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.
Rossi…Libreria Italiana Dischi-Calendari, Bocce-Oggetti
Religiosi-…Mulberry St. 127…Cor. 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
pay…entrada”.

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 “H.R. 7995″…”A Bill”..”House 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.