1954 - United Nations: Workshop For Peace

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Titles. 05:21:20 CU water & East River looking toward UN building & NYC skyline. Views from building on First Avenue. Tilt down & activity on plaza, flags raised on poles & flying in wind. Visitors & delegates arriving, Views inside from above, people enter. Moving camera past sculpture, people looking up. 05:23:24 Camera follows people into General Assembly Hall, sit in gallery. Documents passed out, name tags placed on desks, ear phones checked. 05:25:02 Delegates arriving, including US delegate James Byrnes, Soviets, Indians, people watch. Delegates shake hands, up escalator past camera. Talking, in Delegates Lounge. Entering General Assembly & taking seats. John Foster Dulles at United States desk. Photographers take pictures. 05:27:32 Translation booth & translator puts on earphones; newsreel camera. Madame Lakshmi Pandit presiding as President at 8th Assembly, SOF. 05:28:15 Canada’s Foreign Minister Lester Pearson to podium & speaks, SOF. Journalists take notes. Reporters and news agencies working / typing in press room. Foreign newspaper headlines. CU listening on speaker beside typewriter. Peruvian Ambassador speaking at microphone (SOF - Spanish). 05:30:07 Lobby w/ large statue of naked man & modern streamlined balconies seen. Tour guide w/ visitors show model of buildings; walk thru building, Trustee Council chamber shown. 05:32:12 British Togoland delegates speak to Trusteeship Council; New Zealand’s Leslie Knox Monroe presiding. Representative speaks SOF on people’s behalf. 05:33:37 Guide points out painting by Jose Vela Zanetti symbolizing struggle for peace. Visitors enter Economic & Social Council meeting. Sit & listen w/ earphones to translation, French delegate speaking. Translators working in various languages. MCU young woman listening. Specialized United Nations staff members listening behind name plates. 05:36:13 Tour continues into Security Council, VO explanation. Mural in front. Empty room & filled. Dag Hammarskjold speaking about outbreaks in Palestine between Palestine & Israel. Chief of Staff of UN Peacekeepers introduced. Abba Eban speaking against Syria; Syria responds. 05:38:50 Visitors look up at office tower; views of offices. Camera follows morning mail van into building, unloaded & sorted letters, newspapers sorted by floor. Moved by dumbwaiter up building, then sorted & delivered to offices. Technical Assistance office receives package that includes cloth from a project requesting advice. Employees move thru halls, camera up elevator. 05:42:14 UNICEF offices; people look at photographs; supplies for doctors shown. Doctor & others talking. 05:42:50 SOF “Get me long distance please.” Telephone switchboard w/ row of operators connecting lines (GOOD). Public Information Department printing photographs, publicity, posters in various languages, pamphlets. Book about Libya & self-government; film of motorcade thru streets. Indonesia w/ ruler in open car & at microphone. UNICEF nurse inoculating baby. Technical assistance clear land, irrigation in orchard. 05:44:53 Elevator up thru building again w/ people working at desks. View of NYC skyline seen from office of Secretary General. Staff working. Hammarskjold at front of General Assembly. Voting on floor w/ ballot box. Lounge & talking. View of General Assembly building w/ lights on at night. Tilt up. 05:47:14 United Nations logo. Diplomacy; Educational Film; Post-WWII; Idealism; Business Operations; Office Workers; Aid Workers; NOTE: Any continuous 14 minutes sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk