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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220847-04
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1949
Country: Belgium,Europe,France,Greece,Holland,Italy,Netherlands,Turkey
Location: Antwerp,Corinth Canal,piraeus,Trieste,Walcheren
TC Begins: 08:34:13
TC Ends: 08:44:17
Duration: 00:10:04
Europe Looks Ahead Part One Montage shots daily life around Europe post war. Stamp ERP - European Recovery Program. Shipyard - workers on ships - painting anchor chain. Ship on booklet which is being shown to class of school children. Marshall Plan. Industry - smoking chimneys - interior factories - steel production. People look at posters showing European Economic Progress. 08:36:47 Walcheren island off Holland - remains of wreckage on shore from WWII. Dikes collapsed and sea had reclaimed land. Post war farming, reclaiming the land, tractor driver. Harvest - grain / wheat. 08:37:36 Steam shovels carrying out further land reclamation - dikes being built. 08:37:53 Turkey - agriculture - farming. Tractor. Local expert & American advisors instruct Turkish farmers - new machinery, plow from Detroit, combine harvester. Loading wagon with flour. 08:38:58 Denmark - chicken farming - feed supplied by Marshall Plan. Livestock farming - pigs, cows. Cheese tested. Cheese & other products loaded onto trucks for export. Docks, loading ships. 08:39:56 Antwerp Port - dockers loading ships with barrels. Top shot harbor. Cargo ships. 08:40:56 Italy - people looking at posters re reconstruction of Italian ports funded in part by Marshall Plan. Rebuilt railway bridge crossing Po river. Freight train over river. 08:41:41 Trieste - port / docks; CU cargo w/ countries of origin. Shipyard in Trieste, ships under construction. Ships leaving Trieste harbor. 08:42:50 Ship going through Corinth canal in Greece. Rebuilding of canal following WWII using American engineers & equipment. Piraeus port / docks. 08:43:28 River Rhone - work to divert the path of the river between Montdragon and ?. Huge machinery - earth moving equipment. Post WW2;