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
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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