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1953 - Cold War Propaganda, Anti-Communism R2 of 3
Worker, Jacques ?, member of anti-communist trade union turning railroad engine locomotive on railyard turntable, POV w/ engine turning.
CU stopping & engine off w/ cloud of steam. MCU man filling wanter tank on engine; oiler; man working in boiler; adjusting engine valves etc.
02:22:18 Wife at home clearing table in apartment, cooking, sink w/ cold water into pan / kettle & onto gas stove. Wooden food cupboard; sweeping.
02:23:35 Wife leaving down staircase for work, passes scrubwoman. Women talking around table assembling protective goggles, CUs.
02:24:28 Street scene w/ horse drawn beer / wine delivery wagon, shoppers, blind accordion player singing. Vendors’ carts, women shopping, MCUs, prices. Lettuce, carrots, pork meat market, hamburger steak. Woman looking in store windows; view of pedestrians. Horse Meat shop w/ horse-head above; CU shoes & sweaters in window, skirts.
02:26:32 Joe Heath SOF, MCU: “This is a big problem for French worker & his wife...” re prices etc
02:27:03 Railroad workers getting pay at pay window, locomotive pulls up. View from inside & outside window. CUs. Walk along; CU counting pay. Two workers talk.
02:28:26 CU sign: Harry L. Martin / Labor Information. MCU Martin, president of American Newspaper Guild, at typewriter, pulls out paper & reads to camera, SOF: “Under the Bett (?) Amendment to the Mutual Security Act Congress recognized that the economic & military aid to our allies should be used in such a way as to encourage the growth of free enterprise & free trade unions. That gave us a clear directive to discourage cartels & monopolies and to help however we can the non-Communist trade unions. The free trade union is the best means of attaining for the working man his share of the benefits of recovery. Defense & the ? programs which the American government has sponsored in Europe. And that’s why American labor has placed men like myself from its own ranks in the administration of our overseas aid program. So that we can help our friends among the working peoples of the Allied countries in their struggle for a better, a freer, and a more peaceful world.”
MSA; Economics; Economy; Defense Expenses; Workers; Family; Anti-Communism Propaganda; USiA; 1950s; Rebuilding Post-WWII; Post-WW2; Capitalism; Marshall Plan Film;
Sold at per reel rate. Good B/W picture quality & well shot.
NOTE: Mutual Security Agency was established 10Oct51 replacing the Economic Cooperation Agency which had managed the Marshal Plan aka ERP. MSA was headed by Averell Harriman; then abolished 01Aug53 & functions transferred to Foreign Operations Administration
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NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1953 - Cold War Propaganda, Anti-Communism R2 of 3 Worker, Jacques ?, member of anti-communist trade union turning railroad engine locomotive on railyard turntable, POV w/ engine turning. CU stopping & engine off w/ cloud of steam. MCU man filling wanter tank on engine; oiler; man working in boiler; adjusting engine valves etc. 02:22:18 Wife at home clearing table in apartment, cooking, sink w/ cold water into pan / kettle & onto gas stove. Wooden food cupboard; sweeping. 02:23:35 Wife leaving down staircase for work, passes scrubwoman. Women talking around table assembling protective goggles, CUs. 02:24:28 Street scene w/ horse drawn beer / wine delivery wagon, shoppers, blind accordion player singing. Vendors’ carts, women shopping, MCUs, prices. Lettuce, carrots, pork meat market, hamburger steak. Woman looking in store windows; view of pedestrians. Horse Meat shop w/ horse-head above; CU shoes & sweaters in window, skirts. 02:26:32 Joe Heath SOF, MCU: “This is a big problem for French worker & his wife...” re prices etc 02:27:03 Railroad workers getting pay at pay window, locomotive pulls up. View from inside & outside window. CUs. Walk along; CU counting pay. Two workers talk. 02:28:26 CU sign: Harry L. Martin / Labor Information. MCU Martin, president of American Newspaper Guild, at typewriter, pulls out paper & reads to camera, SOF: “Under the Bett (?) Amendment to the Mutual Security Act Congress recognized that the economic & military aid to our allies should be used in such a way as to encourage the growth of free enterprise & free trade unions. That gave us a clear directive to discourage cartels & monopolies and to help however we can the non-Communist trade unions. The free trade union is the best means of attaining for the working man his share of the benefits of recovery. Defense & the ? programs which the American government has sponsored in Europe. And that’s why American labor has placed men like myself from its own ranks in the administration of our overseas aid program. So that we can help our friends among the working peoples of the Allied countries in their struggle for a better, a freer, and a more peaceful world.” MSA; Economics; Economy; Defense Expenses; Workers; Family; Anti-Communism Propaganda; USiA; 1950s; Rebuilding Post-WWII; Post-WW2; Capitalism; Marshall Plan Film; Sold at per reel rate. Good B/W picture quality & well shot. NOTE: Mutual Security Agency was established 10Oct51 replacing the Economic Cooperation Agency which had managed the Marshal Plan aka ERP. MSA was headed by Averell Harriman; then abolished 01Aug53 & functions transferred to Foreign Operations Administration NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk