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The Million Dollar Nickel Peter Ballbusch [videorecording]=

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: GigiPublication details: USA Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) 1952Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 10 min.) sound, b&w. 4 3/4 inLOC classification:
  • PN1997 .M555 1952
Summary: From IMDb: One can no longer purchase much with five cents. But what one can still buy for a nickel, but is worth millions of dollars collectively, is a stamp to mail a letter overseas. The importance of the mail service over the course of the U.S.'s history is described. Letters sent abroad have and still do fuel much of the immigration to the U.S., which is a never-ending cycle. Those personal letters, many from naturalized U.S. citizens to their original homeland, dispel myths that citizens residing in other countries often hear about life in the U.S., those myths often perpetrated by governments of totalitarian regimes. It is uncertain whether letters going to those countries actually do make it to their intended destinations unaltered. It makes it that much important for other methods of broader communication to reach overseas, these methods endorsed by a plethora of Hollywood stars who were born in countries other the the U.S. to their original homelands.
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From IMDb:
One can no longer purchase much with five cents. But what one can still buy for a nickel, but is worth millions of dollars collectively, is a stamp to mail a letter overseas. The importance of the mail service over the course of the U.S.'s history is described. Letters sent abroad have and still do fuel much of the immigration to the U.S., which is a never-ending cycle. Those personal letters, many from naturalized U.S. citizens to their original homeland, dispel myths that citizens residing in other countries often hear about life in the U.S., those myths often perpetrated by governments of totalitarian regimes. It is uncertain whether letters going to those countries actually do make it to their intended destinations unaltered. It makes it that much important for other methods of broader communication to reach overseas, these methods endorsed by a plethora of Hollywood stars who were born in countries other the the U.S. to their original homelands.

DVD video; Dolby Digital 5.1; surround; NTSC; Regions 1-4; 16:9 widescreen.

English or French audio. Optional French or Chinese subtitles. Optional English subtitles for the deaf or hard-of-hearing.

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