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 More than 40 percent of the U.S. population is descended from the 17 million immigrants that passed through Ellis Island from 1892 to 1954. The Ellis Island Museum is housed in the same building that these immigrants came through in those 64 years. The museum’s two theatres are the centerpiece of this experience, bringing some amazing stories to light.
In 1990, the Ellis Island Foundation hired BL&S to design and build a video playback system to integrate with their existing 35mm endless loop film system, which was designed and originally installed by BL&S in 1984. The BL&S team installed a museum projection system incorporating a hard disk playback device as well as inputs for RGBHV, component, s-video, composite, and computer. All sources are played back on a Digital Projection Highlight 5000gv projector located in the projection booth. The team also interfaced Dolby AC-3 decoder and discrete inputs with the existing Dolby CP-panels in the booth and in the podium at the front of the theatre.
In addition, they installed an AMX system, programmed to automatically start the show using times that have been input by the theatre staff.
Each day, museum visitors watch the award-winning documentary produced by the extraordinary Charles Guggenheim*, Island of Hope, Island of Tears, a remarkable account of this passage to America. Told largely in the words of the extraordinary men, women, and children whose epic journey to America led them through the portals of Ellis Island, Island of Hope, Island of Tears shares a rich history of the hopes and dreams that helped to forge this country.
Further, BL&S designed and provided the equipment and technical services for the 2005 world premiere of Sony Picture Entertainment’s "Hitch" for one thousand patrons in a tent on Ellis Island-a notable coda to BL&S’ original work on the island more than twenty years ago.
*BL&S and Guggenheim Productions have worked together on many projects, including the Johnstown Flood Museum, the D-Day Museum, and the Norton Simon Museum.
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