The immigrant experience : the long, long journey / written and directed by Joan Micklin Silver ; produced by Linda Gottlieb.

Dramatization with narrated sequences. Seventeenth in a series on events that shaped the American nation. This segment focuses on the problems and dreams of new immigrants in America by telling about an uprooted Polish family who came to the U.S. through Ellis Island through the eyes of the boy Jane...

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Corporate Authors: Learning Corporation of America, Phoenix Learning Group, Omaha/Orange (Firm)
Other Authors: Silver, Joan Micklin, Gottlieb, Linda (Producer), Gromada, Thaddeus V., 1929-
Language:English
Published: St. Louis, MO : Phoenix Learning Group, [2007], ©1972.
Series:Shaping of the American nation.
Subjects:
Polish Americans.
United States > Emigration and immigration.
Documentary films.
Genre:
Documentary films.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (29 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Long, long journey.
Format: Video DVD
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Summary:
Dramatization with narrated sequences. Seventeenth in a series on events that shaped the American nation. This segment focuses on the problems and dreams of new immigrants in America by telling about an uprooted Polish family who came to the U.S. through Ellis Island through the eyes of the boy Janek. Shows how they lived at the beginning of the 20th century. Janek the man looks at drams of a lifetime being realized through his grandchildren.
Note:Presented by Learning Corporation of America. An Omaha/Orange film.
DVD version of a 1972 motion picture released by Learning Corporation of America. Previously published as a VHS videocassette. Released as a DVD in 2007.
Videorecording.
Call Number:E184.P7 I44x 2007 VideoDVD
Audience:
For grade 7 to adult.
Credits:Director of Photography, Kenneth Van Sickle ; editor, Mavis Lyons Smull ; music, Michael Shapiro ; consultant, Thaddeus V. Gromada.
System Details:DVD format.
Cast:
John Kowalczyck, Thomas Kubiak, Joan Kendall, Jane McClous, Sophie Rzasa, Barbara Daniszewski, Marzena Hermanowski, G. Krzysteczko, Eugene Ferris, Shlomo Winter.