Arrival of emigrants [i.e. immigrants], Ellis Island /
Summary
Depicts scenes at the Immigration Depot and a nearby dock on Ellis Island. Appears to show, first, a group of immigrants lined up to board a vessel leaving the island, then another group arriving at the island and being directed off of the dock and into the Depot by a uniformed official.
H77049 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 9May1906; H77049.
Camera, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer.
Duration: 3:27 at 15 fps.
Biograph production no. 3165.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1946) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
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Photographed April 27, 1906 on Ellis Island, New York and New Jersey.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Sources used: Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 12; Biograph production logs, v. 2: 1903-1912, p. 68.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
Copy one 35 mm dupe neg pic renumbered: FPE 5517 to FZA 2329.
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