Title:
Forgotten Ellis Island / Boston Film & Video Productions LLC ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; produced, written & directed by Lorie Conway.
ISBN:
9780793670246
Publication Information:
[Virginia] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, [2009]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Documentary.
Title from container.
DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (enhanced); Dolby Digital stereo., NTSC.
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 Note:
Closed-captioned.
Audience:
Not rated.
Performer:
Narrator, Elliott Gould.
Production Credits:
Director of photography, Ken Willinger ; editor, William A. Anderson ; composer, Gil Talmi.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Originally broadcast on television in 2008.
OCLC Number:
ocn301983667
Availability:
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