Contains mix of vintage still images, 1970s interview footage, and a small amount of vintage film footage. Images of an old signs, in Europe, advertising land and promoting the virtues of various of the United states, including: Iowa, Nebraska, California, Kansas, and Dakota. One says "room for millions of immigrants." One cites "free homes." One contains a cartoon image of a grim "old World,"opposite a smiling "New World." Poster for steamship line, Norddeutscher Lloyd, of Bremen. Poster for railroad company. Poster for steamships from Liverpool to New York citing fares from 12 to 30 pounds sterling for "Saloon Passage"; 8 to 10 pounds for Second cabins; and 4 pounds for steerage passage. A Polish publication expressing concern over the "epidemic" of immigration to America. Articles calling for measures to restrict this immigration. Documents in cyrillic that narrator describes as mail from America that Russian officials censor. Samples of letters to relatives back home, from immigrants in America, enclosing steamship tickets, railroad tickets, and the like, that the narrator states "never arrived." Animated map showing the flow of immigrants from interior of Europe to ports of Hamburg, Bremen, and Rotterdam, noting that Hull and Liverpool also prospered on immigrant trade. Note on map states that between 1870 and 1880, two and three quarters of a million American immigrants came from Europe and by 1890, five and a quarter million more had crossed the Atlantic. View of immigrants waiting to be processed by government officials before departure at a port in Europe. People crowded in a long line outside, waiting to enter the office. Views of shanties in a town. A woman is seen describing immigrants' circumstances. Pictures of men women and children traveling by horse-drawn wagons. Actual vintage moving image footage of an old railroad steam locomotive pulling a passenger train into a European train station area circa 1900-1910. View of train station at a European port city. Huge number of people from all over Europe, standing in the courtyard of a train station. A man is seen describing these people as like "coming from another world." A barracks-like housing arrangement for immigrants waiting to pass health screening by the steamship companies, which included carefully examining their hair. A woman who experienced this described her embarrassment at the health examinations.
Design plans to examine the history of the Ellis Island and restoration of the main immigrant arrival building. Still photo pictures of European immigrants at Ellis Island. Statue of Liberty. Set of buildings, interiors of hall and immigration depot and pictures photographed at Ellis Island before restoration. Engineers at construction site. Main building of Island and entrance to the building. Drawing and designs of museum and other parts of main building after restoration. Old pictures show immigrants enter the baggage room. Drawings of staircase to be built and pictures of registry room, galleries and administrative office and ticket office. Engineers examine blueprints.
Scenes from the maiden voyage of the Project Hope hospital ship "SS Hope" to Indonesia in October 1960. Brief view of stack on ship SS Hope (the former United States hospital ship USS Consolation, AH-15) with painted text "Project Hope" and "The People to People Health Foundation, Inc." visible on the stack. Interior views of various medical equipment aboard the ship, examination areas, and dental examination chairs. Man in a supply area works on a document. View on ship's deck. View from pier of the ship at harbor. Letters 'HOPE' on side of ship. Rapid brief scenes from a ceremony with Indonesian officials on the pier, and of Indonesian guests and officials touring the ship's facilities. Scenes of guests and staff departing the ship onto pier and being welcomed by officials as they shake hands. Sign "Angkatan Darat" on a gangway. Arrival ceremony for members of the crew. Indonesian officials speak and Dr. William Walsh speaks. Additional views of Indonesian guests and officials touring the ship and greeting nurses, doctors, and staff of the ship.
Chesterfield Cigarette packets put into cartons by men in a factory. Cartons move on conveyor belt. Houses, traffic, pedestrians and church in a city. A monument in the city. Men discuss outside a building. Man enters office. Door sign reads 'Agriculture Conservation Association AAA County Office'. Men at desk examine tobacco leaves and share documents. Sign 'Tobacco Experiment Station'. Tobacco plants at experimental stations. Tobacco bundles on horse-drawn cart. Men at a tobacco farm. A man sows tobacco seeds. Field covered by men. Tractor ploughs field. Men at the farm place tobacco seedlings. Young boys come at farm with shovels. Tractor driven in farm and men cut weeds. Growing transplanted tobacco plants in farm. Men top at field. Young boys ride horses. Men pluck leaves from plants at farm. Horse-drawn carts loaded with tobacco leaves. Leaves cut by men and women. Tobacco leaves tied on wooden sticks stored in a room. Leaves heated in a room. Hanging leaves examined by men after heating. Old man and a woman wrap similar leaves together in grading process. Men in the farms.
Film begins showing a sign on a wooden barn, reading: "Barn Dance Tonight." Country music is heard. View inside the barn shows a fiddler playing, along with musicians playing guitar, banjo, and piano. Couples dance to the music. Closeups of the musicians. Closeups of dancers. Closeups of spectators feet moving to the rythms. A girl eating an ice cream cone while seated watching the dancers. Scenic views of the countryside in Autumn. Farmers loading tobacco from barns into trucks that are seen moving on highways, to market. A sign in a cornfield reads: "Danville, VA. World's Best Tobacco Market." View of downtown Danville, busy because it is auction time. Sign at a newspaper office reads: "The Bee, Founded 1899." Inside the shop, a printer reads a new edition of the paper with headline about "Opening Tobacco Sales." Open stake truck carries load of tobacco into Holland's Auction warehouse. Glimpse of auctioneer taking bids. Farmer takes a "lot" of tobacco in a wheelbarrow for weighing. Buyers gathered around a table, examine tobacco and bid as auctioneer chants. Farmers collect proceeds of their sales from cashier at the auction house. Views of farmers and families in the business district of Danville. Men fill a barbershop and converse, while waiting for haircuts. Next, the film shows folks enjoying themselves at a "County Fair." Tents and amusement rides dominate the fair grounds. Many views of children on Ferris Wheels, Merry-go-rounds, and other rides. Older persons watch aerial performers on a high wire. Various pieces of farm equipment are on display and looked over by farmers. Prize live stock is exhibited by some farmers. People pass a dixplay entitled: "The Farm Family, the Heart of the Nation."Women exmine samples of foods displayed in glass containers. Samples of eggs are examined by judges.Other camples of vegetables and such are judged. Tobacco samples are also judged for quality. A judge places a blue ribbon on the winning tobacco sample. At a large display of competing tobacco lots, the blue ribbon winner discusses his product with other farmers. Scene shifts to growing season, showing tobaccco farmers working in their fields.
French troops starting cleanup of destroyed railroad station in World War 1.. Women sit in rubble and grieve in front of makeshift cross marking a grave. French troops in chow line, with their personal mess gear, receiving soup. Troops examine bombed area and destroyed buildings in French Town. Woman, accompanied by small boy, pushes a long wheel barrow. Two officers examine ruins. (WWI; WW1)
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