Forgotten Ellis Island : the extraordinary story of America's immigrant hospital
(DVD)
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Published
[Virginia] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, [2009].
Format
DVD
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Status
Main Library - Media
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Published
[Virginia] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, [2009].
Language
English
UPC
841887010252
Notes
General Note
Documentary.
General Note
Title from container.
Creation/Production Credits
Director of photography, Ken Willinger ; editor, William A. Anderson ; composer, Gil Talmi.
Participants/Performers
Narrator, Elliott Gould.
Date/Time and Place of Event
Originally broadcast on television in 2008.
Description
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.
System Details
DVD format, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (enhanced); Dolby Digital stereo., NTSC.
Language
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Documentary television programs.
Ellis Island Hospital.
Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
Historical television programs.
Hospitals -- Admission and discharge -- Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)
Registers of births, etc. -- Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings.
Ellis Island Hospital.
Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
Historical television programs.
Hospitals -- Admission and discharge -- Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)
Registers of births, etc. -- Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings.