The Making of an American (1920)

Directed by

Guy Hedlund

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

14 min

Rating

4.4 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A short silent film made to teach immigrants about American culture and the importance of learning English. It shows scenes of immigrants studying and working as part of the government's Americanization programs.

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What happens

The Making of an American is a 1920 American short silent film used as an educational tool in the governmental Americanization initiatives to assimilate immigrants into mainstream culture, especially by encouraging them to learn the English language. It was produced for the State of Connecticut Department of Americanization by the Worcester Film Corp., a company founded in 1918 in Worcester, Massachusetts. The film was rediscovered and preserved by Northeast Historic Film (NHF) a regional moving image archive in New England. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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