Travelogue - New York
Immigration Officer : What is Your Name ? Boy Doesn't answer. Officer : C'mon son.. What is your Name ? Boy Doesn't answer. Translating Officer : Tuo Nome ? ( Italian ) No answer.. Officer looks at the card.. Translating Officer : Vito Andolini from Corleone Immigration Officer : Corleone.. Vito Corleone Godfather Part - II, backdrop . - A young boy, Vito , from Corleone arrives as an immigrant at Ellis Island, New York.. To countless immigrants in the earlier part of 20th century, Ellis Island was the gateway to a land of opportunities. It was an age where people immigrated to the United States through this place. While Statue of Liberty was the symbol of hope for an immigrant, Ellis island was the ultimate test. Immigrants got screened here for a variety of diseases, went through multiple rounds of paperworks and went into the place where capitalism cut its teeth - Manhattan. Over the last few years, one profession that I've started to admir...