The Immigrant experience: The long, long journey

Duration: 31

Year Published: 1973

Creator: Learning Corporation of America

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Copyright: Registered 23Jan73 · LP43059 (Jan-Jun 1974) Copyright holder: Learning Company of America, a division of Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc

Description: Focuses on the problems and dreams of new immigrants in America by telling about an uprooted Polish family. Shows their life in the early 1900's and includes interviews with the grandfather today., Focuses on the problems and dreams of new immigrants in America by dramatizing the struggle of Janek, a 12-year-old Polish immigrant of the early 1900s, to survive in this foreign land. Recounts his problems as his teacher encourages him to study hard and not be an "ignorant foreigner," the conflicts at home when he expresses shame of Polish ways, and his having to quit school and work in the slaughterhouse after an accident incapacitates his father. Concludes with Janek, now a grandfather, expressing his hopes that his grandchildren may be able to realize the dreams he once had of becoming a "real American."

Complete Record: Focuses on the problems and dreams of new immigrants in America by telling about an uprooted Polish family. Shows their life in the early 1900's and includes interviews with the grandfather today., Focuses on the problems and dreams of new immigrants in America by dramatizing the struggle of Janek, a 12-year-old Polish immigrant of the early 1900s, to survive in this foreign land. Recounts his problems as his teacher encourages him to study hard and not be an "ignorant foreigner," the conflicts at home when he expresses shame of Polish ways, and his having to quit school and work in the slaughterhouse after an accident incapacitates his father. Concludes with Janek, now a grandfather, expressing his hopes that his grandchildren may be able to realize the dreams he once had of becoming a "real American.", NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.