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Post-WWI - ca 1921, USSR & Samara Famine Relief; London Conference; Diplomats / Politicians

Reel Number: 220689-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1920s

Country: England,France,Germany,Russia,United Kingdom,USA,USSR,Vatican City

Location: CheQuers, London,Petrograd,River Neva,Samara,St. Petersburg,Vatican City

TC Begins: 00:48:43

TC Ends: 01:00:32

Duration: 00:11:49

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Post-WWI - ca 1921, USSR & Samara Famine Relief; London Conference; Diplomats / Politicians Flash titles re Petrograd; River Neva. Tug pulling small steamer thru ice on frozen River Neva (w/ food supplies sent by foreign relief organisation to Petrograd). City buildings along frozen river seawall. Russian children stand next to ship “Marcus”, Newark USA. 00:49:13 Men unloading large flour bags on snowy dock. ARA’s Colonel William Haskell looking at map. Food sacks transported along snowy street by large horse-drawn sleighs - extremely cold weather. Civilians, some w/ sacks, walking on snowy streets. Children crowded around soup kitchen w/ steam rising. People eating hot food in street. VERY GOOD QUALITY & INTERESTING. Slug. 00:50:28 Samara - Ships & city shoreline, tracking shot from water. Pan over parked freight train cars w/ Red Cross visible. High Angle / HA street market stalls w/ activity, carts, pedestrians, venders, vegetables. People / crowds on streets watching camera 00:51:33 People being vaccinated in open air. Injections given in back to very skinny / starved men & women. People queue for steaming water from faucet / standpipe out of building wall. 00:52:16 HA pan of mass of carts & camels in large market square. Sack of grain opened & emptied into wagon. Russian man with handful of grain or ??. MS Women & children. MS & CUs camels standing by carts. Truck w/ American Relief Administration on side of truck bed. NOTE: American Relief Administration established by Congress 24Feb19; Haskell headed up Moscow office for Russian Famine Relief from ca mid-1921; previously w/ ARA in Romania, etc. 00:53:20 1921 London Conference, Prime Minister David Lloyd George & French representatives w/ PM Briand, General Foch, Gen. Weygand & Admiral de Bon stand / pose outside Chequers (?). Lloyd George walking on grounds w/ Marshall Foch & Prime Minister Aristide Briand & seated in chairs. 00:54:04 Unid. VIP (French President Paul Deschanel or exile Austrian Emporer Karl poses. French or Belgian soldiers hold crowds. 00:54:22 British soldier on sentry duty in Germany. 00:54:39 French or Belgian soldiers w/ supply wagons along road & railroad tracks past large homes. Stopped in town / city square. Mark IV tank driving round cobblestone plaza watched by civilians behind fence (slight film deterioration). American (?) soldiers stand beside tank. Soldier pushes little boy out of the way. MCU of crowd faces. Slug 00:55:42 British Grenadier Guards w/ bearskins / busbys on guard outside Palace (?), MCUs. Crowd of well dressed civilians waiting on pavement alongside brick wall (outside Downing Street (?). David Lloyd George leaves building followed by unid. VIPs. 00:56:14 Animated map showing Rhine River & Neutral Zone & allied sectors. (some deterioration). Slug. 00:57:00 St Peter’s Square, Vatican City w/ crowds past rushing into building - brief shot inside of Catholic service. Banner unfurled from Pope’s balcony. ca 1910s / 1920s. Slug. 00:57:44 Unid. military & civilians men disembarking from ship, pose for cameras. Man in carriage or car. Dark & probably not useful. Slug. 00:58:37 PM Lloyd George & PM Briand exit, pose & into car. Deschanel (?) & Briand (?) in garden w/ dog. 01:00:00 Brief, interior large meeting; ext. two unid. Oriental men. PM Briand. Slug. 01:00:13 MS Unid VIP, takes off hat & poses. Post-WW1; Diplomats; British & French Politicians; NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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