Immigrant from America, ca. 1970
no date · National Archives and Records Administration (via FedFlix)
Finding US Government work
The record names a federal body as the creating agency: Department of Justice. Bureau of Prisons. A work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties has no US copyright (17 U.S.C. 105; before 1978, section 8 of the 1909 Act).
The record names a federal body as the creating agency. A work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties has no US copyright (17 U.S.C. 105; before 1978, section 8 of the 1909 Act). This says nothing about copyright outside the United States, or about music, stock footage or other material the film may incorporate.
- Creating body, as recorded
- Department of Justice. Bureau of Prisons
- National Archives Identifier
- 567627 (local identifier 129-BOP-16)
- Internet Archive item
- gov.archives.arc.567627 (uploader's licence mark: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
The record
The Internet Archive item's description, as transcribed by the uploader from the source archive's record. Check it against the National Archives catalog entry linked above.
National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 567627 / Local Identifier 129-BOP-16 - Immigrant from America, ca. 1970 - Department of Justice. Bureau of Prisons. (1930 - ). This moving image compares the different ways that ethnic groups arrived in America. The film focuses on the difference between the arrival of Africans through slavery and the arrival of Irish, Italian, and Asians through immigration. The footage from the National Archives.emphasizes the economic disparity and prejudice that all ethnic groups faced and the conditions that allowed successive generations of European-Americans and Asian-Americans to improve their conditions while African-Americans could not. DVD copied by IASL Master Scanner Timothy Vollmer.