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Brainstorming
--- The Immigrant
Pre-Screening
What are
you expecting from a film from 1917?
Charlie Chaplin
is the writer/director/star. Have you heard of him?
So you think
you will like this film?
Post-Screening
Live music
--- Introduce Mrs. Garland
- How did
you select the music?
- Were you
given a score?
- Let her
talk about music of the time and the music setting the mood
The film
- Charlie
Chaplin starred/directed/wrote this film.
- He himself
was an immigrant but from England
- Well off
as an immigrant - high pay and no language barrier
- What about
this film was different than the films you see today?
- No talking
--- how do they get their message across?
Physical
comedy and exaggerated movements ---- Who uses this now?
Saturday Night Live, Tom Green, The Three Stooges
Makeup
--- exaggerating the expressions of the actors to get message across
Camera
angles
- Very basic-
presentation like theater just filmed.
- 1917 filmmaking
was very young and difficult without technology
- Took a
long time to film the various shots and so films very short.
The Journey
to America
- From the
film what do you expect it was like?
- What did
they do on the boat?
- Conditions
on the boat---
- In the
film --- on the top deck … in reality down below
- Food poor
…. Poor food
- Gambling
and other entertainments
Who came
to America?
- Perhaps
a chart with different groups and years --- a map (something that can
be displayed on a slide/powerpoint)
- Why did
they come between 1880-1917?
- Better
life, religious freedom,
- Are these
different reasons than why people came before? Show chart with who came
from what years
Arrival
in America
- What happened
when the boat arrived in America --- how did you know Chaplin had arrived?
- The Statue
of Liberty - They were herded into a roped off area and tags were put
on
- Talk about
Ellis Island and other points of entry --- perhaps see photographs from
the collection on screen
Life for
Immigrants
- What happens
to Chaplin when he gets to United States?
- Poor?
How do you know?
- Discrimination?
Problems with language and literacy? --- menu and treatment by waiter
Immigration
today
- How many
of you immigrated from another country or your parents did?
- Where
did you come from?
- Where
are today's immigrants coming from? (chart/map)
- What kinds
of challenges do today's immigrants face?
- Are the
challenges similar to those of past generations?
Art of
Immigrants displayed
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