Open Vault Website; Frames of Reference; Ellis Island; Meredith Monk's Ellis Island

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Collection
Open Vault Website
Series
Frames of Reference
Program
Ellis Island
Clip
Meredith Monk's Ellis Island
Producing Organization
WGBH Educational Foundation
Contributing Organization
WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/15-k649p2wd6z
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Description
Description
This excerpt from Meredith Monk's haunting, reflective piece on Ellis Island and the immigrants who passed through there shows re-creations of the medical examinations the immigrants underwent and the conditions they lived through. The sequences were filmed in the run-down buildings of Ellis Island before restoration was started.
Subjects
Emigration and immigration; Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.); Monk, Meredith; Dance
Rights
Rights Note:,Rights:,Rights Credit:Co-production of Greenwich Film Associates/ZDF,Rights Type:All,Rights Coverage:,Rights Holder:Greenwich Film Associates
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:00:00
Credits
Director2: Monk, Meredith
Producer: Dowling, Susan
Producer: Rosen, Bob
Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
Publisher: WGBH Educational Foundation
AAPB Contributor Holdings
WGBH
Identifier: 11b78168abd7e88b4085e7f6d16c58d3c953a080 (ArtesiaDAM UOI_ID)
Format: Quicktime
Color: Color
Duration: 00:00:00
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Citations
Chicago: “Open Vault Website; Frames of Reference; Ellis Island; Meredith Monk's Ellis Island,” WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 26, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-k649p2wd6z.
MLA: “Open Vault Website; Frames of Reference; Ellis Island; Meredith Monk's Ellis Island.” WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 26, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-k649p2wd6z>.
APA: Open Vault Website; Frames of Reference; Ellis Island; Meredith Monk's Ellis Island. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-k649p2wd6z