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Early motion pictures. Arrival of immigrants at Ellis Island, New York: Double-deck ferry ship docks and immigrants with their luggage disembark

Immigrants land at Ellis Island, New York on 24 July, 1903. William Myers double-deck ferry excursion ship loaded with immigrants arrives at the Ellis Island dock. Crewmen open the gangplank and immigrants walk down gangplank and up on to wharf with their luggage.

Location: Ellis Island New York USA
Date: 1903, July 24
Duration: 2 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073416
Early film 'Emigrants [i.e. immigrants] landing at Ellis Island' shows new immigrants aboard ship arriving in America.

A film titled 'Emigrants [i.e. immigrants] landing at Ellis Island'. A view of the steamboat ferry "William Myers," laden with passengers, approaching a dock at the Ellis Island Immigration Station. The vessel is docked. Immigrant passengers are seen coming up the gangway and onto the dock.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1903, July 24
Duration: 2 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040610
Europeans go through immigration processing at Ellis Island in the early 1900s

Mix of period footage circa 1910, retrospective interviews in 1975, and some still images. European immigration in bad travel conditions to America. View from rail on deck of a ship in heavy seas. An elderly European immigrant recalls his experiences of the journey on ship to America. Ship in Atlantic Ocean. Picture of European immigrants on ship deck. Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Early 1900s period footage of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island and disembarking from ship, then walking with luggage for processing at Ellis Island. Some immigrants peer across New York Harbor at the skyline of New York city. Scene change to 1975 and views of interiors of a no longer used building in Ellis Island. Names of persons carved on walls. A man shares his experience as an immigrant passing through Ellis Island, and then as an immigration inspector reviewing new immigrants as they arrived.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1910
Duration: 5 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039771
Empty buildings on Ellis Island, in 1954. Flashback to Immigrants arriving and being processed in 1901.

Start of a documentary production titled,"The Inheritance." Introductory slate tells how in December, 1914, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (Union) was founded in a meeting at Webster Hall, New York City. It also describes how far and wide that union had grown in the ensuing 50 years. An ocean liner is seen in the mist in New York Harbor. Fog horn sounds. The statue of Liberty is seen dimly through the fog. A commercial ship and a tug boat pass in front of Ellis Island. Views of building interior, Sign in boiler room reads: "U.S. Immigrant Station. Ellis Island. N.Y.H." Furnace door and thermometer and pressure gauges are seen. Large hall is seen. Camera pans through the empty corridors and rooms of the facility. The frame of an iron baby's crib sits in an empty room. View through window of Ellis Island proper, just outside, and of New York City buildings across the water. Montage of still photo images: Immigrants on the deck of a ship in 1901. Views of small children. A group of immigrants wearing the fez. Immigrants waving their hats as they see the Statue of Liberty. Broader view of the ship packed with immigrants. Interior of Ellis Island building with queue of new arrivals being processed. Immigration officers seated on high stools, checking documents of arrivals. Medical officer examines a boy with a stethoscope (screening for TB). View shifts to passengers arriving. They walk across the pier, carrying their belongings.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1901
Duration: 4 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036798
Tug boats bring new immigrants to Immigration Building at Ellis Island from SS Siboney in New York, United States.

Alien immigrants arrive at Ellis Island in New York by ferry. Ellis Island ferry coming into slip. Tug boats bring aliens to Immigration Building from SS Siboney. Aliens walk towards Immigration Building for processing to enter America. Doorway and American flag, entrance to administration building. Ellis Island ferry slip and life-ring 'Ellis Island' in foreground.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1941, January
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074120
Immigrants aboard ferry docks at Ellis Island.

Double deck ferry boat with sign painted on front reading,"Myers Excursion." Long bumpers extend from top deck to waterline all around the boat. "Wm Myers" painted on side of first deck. Newly arriving immigrants to America aboard ferry docks at Ellis Island. Gangboard placed for passengers. Immigrant families debark from the ferry.

Location: Ellis Island New York USA
Date: 1903, July 24
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039827
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