Across the Sea of Time

The plot centres around a real life Russian immigrant, searching for his family, who is given the name Leopold Minton by the Ellis Island immigration officials (because they are unable to pronounce his Russian name). Minton is employed by a company to take stereoscopic photographs for the (at that time) popular Stereoscope#Holmes stereoscope. This provides the film with an excuse to show many stereoscopic images, both past and present, of New York.