1951 - Educational Film: Introduction To Foreign Trade

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Titles. 06:08:31 Animated map of world showing trade routes. 06:08:53 SOF Costumed scenes w/ men of various eras expressing differing opinions re foreign trade. Fist pounding; radio announcer at mic. 06:09:10 Montage: city street scene w/ trolley, pedestrian, traffic; heavy construction; farming; coal railroad - VO “We feel powerful, prosperous. We feel we can trade with the whole world or not as we wish...but is trade, two-way trade, important to our nation & to the entire world?” Map of world showing uneven population dispersal, industrial centers & resources. 06:10:05 Cargo ship unloaded, freight trains, airplane loading cargo. 06:10:20 Spinning globe, zoom in on US. 06:10:40 Exterior factory exterior; INT tractors; office of export manager, secretary takes mail in & manager opens order from Brazil for tractors. CUs government controls. Export Shipping Order & Import License from Brazil. Animated map of Brazil explaining balance of imports & exports. Animation & wall around country w/ gates shows controls via import licensing, tariffs, exchange control. 06:12:50 Factory export manager opens bank credit note for payment in dollars. 06:13:09 Animation w/ model of payment in cruzeiros being made to Banco Nacional on Brazilian map & letter of credit in dollars issued. 06:13:20 Export manager prepares US documentation w/ CUs: application for export license & export declaration; secretary takes notes. 06:14:06 Bulldozer driven onto train & crated for shipment. 06:14:38 Map of Brazil showing products for export; animation shows export of coffee from Brazil to US - dollars converted to cruzeiros - bilateral trade. Example of multilateral trade using models - tractor on ship to Brazil, coffee on ship to England, English cloth on ship to Brazil. VO re restrictions 06:16:19 American workers out of factory; English workers thru factory gate as double-decker buses pass by; VO re competition. Shots of US goods bought by foreign countries w/ percentage of total production exported superimposed - machine tools, cotton bales, milk, wheat, petroleum - jobs for workers. 06:17:01 Map of world divided by walls to show trade restrictions & unequal distribution of people, industry & resources 06:17:26 Footage of products imported by US - asphalt, fertilizer, leather. Tractor off production line - foreign parts used - tractors taken away on freight train. 06:18:12 The End. Post-WWII Economics; Post-WW2 Manufacturing; Globalization; Free Trade; Free Markets; Capitalism; Propaganda; Educational Film; 1950s; NOTE: Any one continuous minute sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk