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Angel island story of Chinese immigration
Title
Angel island [electronic resource (video)] : story of Chinese immigration / MacNeil/Lehrer Productions.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2006], c2000.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (12 min.) : sd., col., digital.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on May 28, 2006.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Title from distributor's description.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
On Angel Island, the history is written on the walls. From 1910 until 1943, Chinese immigrants to America passed through Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, the Ellis Island of the West. Unlike other groups, the Chinese were legally discriminated against under an 1882 law called the Chinese Exclusion Act. This program looks at how two women-one an artist, the other a documentary filmmaker-are raising funds and awareness to have the old immigration station restored. Slated for destruction, the station was spared in 1970 when a park ranger discovered, beneath layers of paint, poems written by anxious detainees about their fears of deportation.
Variant and related titles
Story of Chinese immigration
Films on demand.
Other formats
Original produced: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, 2000
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
9 & up.
Contents
Angel Island: The Ellis Island of the West (3:25)
Angel Island: "Paper" Relatives (4:13)
Angel Island: Poetry and Restoration (3:19)
Videorecording number
29444 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
MacNeil/Lehrer Productions.
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