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The Orphan Trains
Title
The Orphan Trains [electronic resource (video)] / Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.).
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2011], c1995.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (60 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on August 21, 2011.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Eighty years ago, Elliot Bobo was taken from his alcoholic father's home, given a small cardboard suitcase, and put on board an "orphan train" bound for Arkansas. Bobo never saw his father again. He was one of tens of thousands of neglected and orphaned children who roamed the streets of New York in search of money, food, and shelter. Beginning in 1853 a young minister named Charles Loring Brace founded the Children's Aid Society - an organization that sent orphans west to begin new lives with farm families. His program would turn out to be a forerunner of modern foster care. But as The Orphan Trains, from the PBS American Experience collection, so poignantly reveals, even those for whom the journey ultimately was a triumph found the transition from one life to another almost always painful, confusing, or more difficult than one might imagine.
Variant and related titles
Films on demand.
American experience (Television program)
Other formats
Originally produced: Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), 1995.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
PBS American Experience
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
10 & up.
Contents
Brief Introduction & Sponsors: The Orphan Trains (1:23)
Ethel Lambert's Dream (2:11)
"I am Tired of Singing" (0:41)
Children's Aid Society (0:40)
Adult Orphans Remember (1:16)
Credits: The Orphan Trains (0:42)
Leaving Everything Behind (1:16)
New York's Street Children (3:22)
Charles Loring Brace's Plan (2:32)
"You're Going to Texas" (1:47)
Riding the Orphan Train (1:12)
Finding Comfort on the Orphan Train (2:45)
Distributing Orphaned Children (2:57)
Faith in the Kindness of Strangers (2:01)
Kicking and Biting (1:57)
"They Wanted a Slave" (2:36)
Second Chances (2:24)
Treatment of Fostered Children (3:07)
Monitoring Child Placements (1:02)
Success Stories (1:05)
Bad Blood (3:00)
Letters from Fostered Children (1:58)
Orphaned Children Find Hope (2:28)
Adoptive Parents' Perspective (2:01)
Loneliness of Being an Orphan (1:54)
Positive Effect of Fostering (2:55)
Epilogue: The Orphan Trains (1:31)
Credits & Sponsors: The Orphan Trains (2:11)
Videorecording number
44104 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
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