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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221517-10
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1950
Country: England,France,Italy,Netherlands,Norway,United Kingdom
Location: London
TC Begins: 04:32:43
TC Ends: 04:43:21
Duration: 00:10:38
The Years of Decision Pt. 1 of 2 Produced by March of Time for the Economic Cooperation Administration 04:33:08 London sunny street scene w/ many pedestrians, double-decker buses, St. Paul’s cathedral in background. Montage European cities w/ people walking past camera, shopping at vendors cart, goods in front of French stores. Women buying vegetables, clothing, people riding bicycles. 04:34:06 Montage of working scenes: man at weaving loom in large mill. Coal mine head & miners into tunnel & boarding mine train. LS of factory & railroad yard. Man working at Fiat factory; farmyard & cows to barn; farmer w/ machinery. Map & outlines of countries & animation. 04:35:13 Destruction w/ weeds overgrowing; rubble, wreckage w/ people walking past; across temporary bride. Cranes raising sunken ships. Chimney smoke of factory. Machinists working. Millworkers & cotton. 04:36:30 Men eating at table, farmer plowing behind team of horses. Norway harbor & men tie fishing nets. Women waiting in food lines. Bakery shelves in window partially filled. 04:37:25 1947. Coal mine & small train; miners working underground w/ picks at coal face. People w/ wheelbarrows getting coal. Electrical power plant & switches, large gears comng to stop, lights out. Work stoppage. English women wait in food lines. Farmyard & tending cattle; people purchase on blackmarket, man giving food to woman at door. Women picking olives from ground. Empty shelves of market. Old freight cars; factory in Belgium building new ones. Railyard w/ filled railcars; stopped mills & economic stagnation. 04:40:41 Men digging peat in Holland. Illustration showing comparative production. 04:41:42 Secretary of State George Marshall at desk signing papers. 04:41:51 Men & women at large newspaper kiosk, man buys magazine. People sitting & reading. 04:42:11 Paris street scene. Prime Ministers of Great Britain, Soviet Union & France walking up steps for meeting. Int. & shaking hands at large round table. Delegates include Ernest Bevin, Georges Bidault, Molotov. Signing papers for Organization of Economic Cooperation. Post-WWII European Rebuilding; Marshall Plan; Diplomatic Cooperation; Diplomacy; Workers;