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Your Eighty Dollars Pt. 1 of 3

Reel Number: 221260-08

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1950s

Country: England,France,Germany,Greece,Italy,United Kingdom

Location: Athens,London,Paris,Sardinia

TC Begins: 05:28:01

TC Ends: 05:38:09

Duration: 00:10:08

Your Eighty Dollars Pt. 1 of 3 Montage of rebuilding & rearming western democracy re NATO. 1948. Acropolis, Colosseum / Coliseum, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Notre Dame, Paris Opera, Tower Bridge, Istanbul Mosque. Talking about Marshall Plan. Ruins of war in various cities. Greek Orthodox priest among ruins. 05:30:52 Greek civil war fighting. Berlin & Cold War w/ signs of sectors. Map of Europe. Aerial of factory & heavy industrial activity. Steel, shipbuilding, dams. 05:32:10 London & people walking across bridge; Communist posters; people & kids in CU hungry. Communist demonstration & parade. 05:32:41 George Marshall speaking describing need for aid. Ships being loaded w/ crates, food, tires, barrels. ECA symbol on bags. Unloading grain, caterpillars, handing out shoes to kids. Lines of people getting coal, machinery installed in factories. Communist demonstration & speaker to crows. 05:35:07 Title: 1949 year of Recovery. Rebuilding homes, factories. Men working, building, laying foundations. 05:35:45 Organization for European Economic Cooperation meeting of 18 countries. Men looking at agriculture equipment, harvesting by machine & hand. Cleaning up Sardinia to get rid of malaria. Draining swamps. Housing projects rebuilt w/ scaffolding around them. Draining farm land. Irrigation. Plowing. Farm family eating around table. Women buy food at market. Post-WWII; Propaganda; Rebuilding; Post-WW2 Economics; 1950s;

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