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France, Marseilles Port Activity & Arrival of Food Supplies (1946)

Reel Number: 221210-07

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1946

Country: France

Location: Marseilles

TC Begins: 04:41:36

TC Ends: 04:50:28

Duration: 00:08:52

France, Marseilles Port Activity & Arrival of Food Supplies (1946) Unloading wheat from American ship docked, trucks along dock. Wheat unloaded w/ crane, bagged and carried off. Customs man counting bags on truck & giving permits to drivers. CU sign Cape Poge on ship. Stevedores unloading bags of Maine potatoes from ship & onto truck outside warehouse. 04:45:33 CU of man inspecting potatoes. Men carrying bags on backs. Loading bags in slings from ship. 04:46:35 LS across harbor to crane. Smokey. Unloading locomotive (not seen well); man cutting steel of wrecked ship. Men unchaining locomotive to be unloaded from ship hold; three others seen in hold. Crane moving locomotive & placing on dock, men guide into place. Sign: Built by Lima Locomotive Works. Soldier w/ rifle patrolling dock. Other views of locomotives being unloaded. Post-War; Post-WWII Rebuilding; French Government Reconstruction; Transportation; Food Aid;

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