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Short film describing why Europeans emigrated to America around 1900

f Opening image shows handwritten letter written by an imigrant to the U.S. from Europe. Camera pans over various outdoor scenes of the United States, as voices of men and women in the background extols marvels of America. A map of Europe is shown as narrator describes the problems in European countries. A woman sowing seed by hand on a European farm. European farmers using shovels to spread something over a plot of land. A farmer walking behind a plow pulled by a single horse. An old man tells how the land they had in Europe wasn't enough to feed their family of three, So his father decided to come to America (probably in the period from 1880 to 1920).

Location: United States USA
Date: 1975
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039765
Scenes of Norway, Italy, and Ireland. Old men describe the reasons why immigrants came to America from those countries.

Scenes of Norway and Italy. A farmer in Italy using a hoe. An elderly gentleman describing the hardships of the Italians. Scene shifts to Ireland, and farmers digging potatoes or tubers. An old Irishman describing the problems of the Irish prompting immigration to America early in the 20th century.

Location: Ireland
Date: 1975
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039766
Elderly immigrants recall their experiences of painful and horrible journey on sailing ships to America around 1900.

European immigration to America. Elderly immigrants recall their experiences of painful and horrible journey in sailing ships. Opening scene is view from aboard a sailing ship plunging through ocean waters. Next, a man who was an immigrant from Europe being interviewed, discusses his travel difficulties. He talks about crossing the Atlantic in the Steerage. Camera pans across an illustration of passengers in Steerage, suffering with sickness and smell. Next, a woman immigrant mentions being sea sick, all the way. She says her mother feared that she might be thrown overboard if the ship's crew saw how sick a child she was, so she hid her daughter. Next, camera pans briefly over a drawing of travelers in Steerage. Another woman immigrant also remarks about the sea sickness and terrible conditions.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1975
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039769
European immigrants come to America in sailing ships on difficult passage across the Atlantic ocean circa 1900

Opening scene is view from aboard a sailing ship in rought waters of the Atlantic ocean. Next, a man who was an imigrant from Europe being interviewed, tells how travelers in Steerage didn't want to move because the ship was rolling and shaking so badly. In between views of persons being interviewed, the camera pans and shows closeups of travelers lying about on the deck of a sailing ship, in good weather, so they could get some fresh air and sunshine. (A woman immigrant notes that they were forced to do this by the crew.) Another woman talks about prevalence of head lice and delousing procedures.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1975
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039770
Tourists visiting USS Constitution in Boston, Massachusetts.

Bow of USS Constitution ship in Boston, Massachusetts. Stern sign reads "USS Constitution". Workmen stripping copper from the ship. Worker striking bell. Tourists walking topside. Bilge pumps of the ship. Swords. Junior officers. Interior of mess. View of grog tub. Raging eagle on a board over a cannon. List of Commanding officers of USS Constitution. U.S. flag on the ship.

Location: Boston Massachusetts USA
Date: 1975, June 26
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035375
Miss Jacqueline Cochran with memorabilia of her career in United States.

Miss Jacqueline Cochran on the stage with Charles Edward Yeager (Chuck Yeager), memorabilia of her career in a display case in the background. Air Chief Marshall C. Roy Slemon addressing. Miss Cochran and others being photographed by the journalists and photographers.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1975, September
Duration: 10 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032902
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