The story of an immigrant

Duration: 0:33:00

Year Published: 1944

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | Teaching Film Custodians : Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Teaching Film Custodians classroom film of excerpts from the 1944 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film, "An American Romance". The dramatic story of the contributions of naturalized citizens to the progress of the United States personified in an immigrant who arrives at Ellis Island in the early years of the twentieth century, obtains work in a Minnesota mine, recognizes the need to better himself through education, achieves citizenship and raises an exemplary family.

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