City Out of Darkness (1950)

Titles. 00:38:18 Night w/ German neon signs; store window displays, pedestrians past window shopping. LIght bulb display. Couple at home w/ chandelier & woman ironing. Dissolve from light fixture to candle; couple reading. 00:39:20 Pan city rooftops at night to roofless buildings; street level of heavy destruction. Empty power station w/ Russian graffiti. 00:40:08 Engineers / draftsmen at drawing boards. Man out of apartment house; workers to construction & on building sites laying bricks, etc. Scaffolding around power plant. 00:40:57 Gate lowering across road. Soldiers at fence in city. Planes over. Workers watching power plant topping out ceremony 00:41:38 Montage: Subway gates closed; power turned off, lights flicker out. Road gate raised; truck of supplies thru & men working to install electrical equipment in power station. Installing large gears, turbine parts. Coal unloaded from barge by clamshell at docks. Furnace burning & boiler temperature gauges rising. Men adjusting wheels, chimney smoking. 00:45:27 Man at podium speak (MOS) for dedication of power plant; large crowd watching, button pushed & gages etc. lights on. 00:46:03 Night traffic on streets, neon lights. Home interior w/ chandelier. Silhouetted smoke stacks. The End. 1950; Marshall Plan; Film Noir; Post-WWII; Post-WW2; Propaganda; Cold War;