Conn.. and artistic director of the Theater Group of the Adult Education Division of the University of California. The musical score of the film was written by Virgil Thompson. The film presents the great cultural legacy and heritage that 40 million immigrants contributed to America. It shows a story of motion and change and of greatness based on a migration that is unique in recorded history. It points out that aside from the American Indians. the rest of usand this goes for every American who ever livedare immigrants or descendants of immigrants. Starting with the Pilgrims who came to New England In search of religious freedom. and othersFrench. Germans. Swedes. Spanish. and Dutchwho .founded settlements of their own. all hoping to find in the New World opportunities which the Old World had denied them. the film depicts the great waves of immigration: first the Irish. ravaged by famine. driven off their land. who came 4% million strong. to build our first chain of canals. railroads. the cities of the Middle West. From northern Europe. the English. Scotch and Welsh. the Scandinavians.
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