https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/1b9b0d25-ed0c-4f8f-b7ca-68e2319616d7 Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This black & white educational film uses reenactments to tell the history of Immigrants in America. This was made in 1960. Opening titles: Immigration in America's History (:07-:24). A ship floats at sea. Wilderness of America. English people establish a colony and build homes. People hack at the grounds with hoes. English Pilgrims, walk near the water's edge. People sit around and pray. African slaves are shown rolling barrels on a pier (1:24) . People on a clipper ship. The English flag flies over a statehouse. The Constitution of the USA. Beyond the Appalachian Mountains in the early 1800s -- people who have left Europe walk in the woods with horses (:25-2:32). A man writes with a quill pen at a desk. His hands are shown writing. An immigrant factory worker writes a letter, dated April 1830. The Atlantic Ocean. Irish farmers in the 1840s. An Irish man walks away and leaves his country due to the potato famine. A ship in a shipping port. Seaport city. An Irish man talks with a factory worker. An Irish immigrant at work in a factory. A book turns pages. A German immigrant at work (2:33-4:54). A German immigrant on a farm in the midwest of the USA. He walks around his farm. Cows go into the barn. The man visits his wife who sits at a piano. He grabs the newspaper, written in German (4:55-5:52). Pacific Ocean. Chinese immigrants work in California on the railroads. A man swings a hammer down as another watches. Aerial shot of factory. European immigrants come and work in the mills and factories. An immigrant guide book turns the pages. A man walks near a field. A man at his house looks at the prairie. Steamship painting. Stills of immigrants. Ellis Island immigrant station. Pictures of immigrant's faces (5:53-8:24). Stills of tenements of immigrants in NYC. Very crowded. 1920s immigration act. People on the water's edge, the English. Then the Irish, German, Asians, Scandinavians.People exit a TWA jet down the stairs. People walk around New York CIty (8:25-10:28) End credits (10:28-10:34). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgjwW23r7GA Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:12:26 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/1b9b0d25-ed0c-4f8f-b7ca-68e2319616d7 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.