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Poster for Immigration (1946)

Immigration (1946)

1946 · Ephemeral film · 10 min

Synopsis

Reviews the history of immigration to the United States up to the restrictive law passed in 1924. A dramatized scene in a European steamship office is used to show the economic, political and religious motives for immigration. Contains scenes of Ellis Island and New York City in the early 20th century.

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10 minutes

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★★★★★ · snowflake alert! · GeafTech · 2026-01-18

Warning! This film will trigger all kinds of snowflakery. Immigrant founded the US of A. it is indeed a fact;. There's no point trying to shout about the Native Americans NOW! When every bloody imported european and other so called 'american' didn’t even recognise the natives, except as a target for their gun and shooting practice. Did you know that groups of young men used to get together on a weekend when they were feeling bored and they’d load up their guns and go hunting Native Americans? They would shoot as many as they could, getting their 'scalps' which actually meant a piece of their…

★★★ · Welcome all of you white people! · Spuzz · 2003-08-14

A pretty shocking and historically incorrect film which first blurts out that everyone in the United States is an immigrant, blatantly ignoring any mention of American Indians. Then we the atypical european family arriving from wherever they were to Ellis Island. We know that they'll have a nicer time here because we don't mind your religion or language (but color is another story all together it seems). This is a fairly historically important film, for all the wrong reasons.

★★★ · Made after W.W.II · ERD · 2005-11-20

A 1946 film shortly made after World War II. Of course it was going be optimistic. It conceintrates on the major groups that immigrated here in the 19th and first quarter of the twentieth century. While a more enlightened and accurate history of our country is taught now, for its time it did a good job.

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