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Title FORGOTTEN ELLIS ISLAND [DVD videorecording] : 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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Description 1 videodisc (ca. 57 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Note Documentary.
System Details DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (enhanced); Dolby Digital stereo., NTSC.
Note Closed-captioned.
Title from container.
Performer Narrator, Elliott Gould.
Credits Director of photography, Ken Willinger ; editor, William A. Anderson ; composer, Gil Talmi.
Note 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.
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 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 : $24.99
9780793670246
Standard No. 841887010252
Music # FGEI601 PBS Home Video
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