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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221364-07
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1950
Country: Germany
Location: Giessen,Hersh
TC Begins: 01:07:30
TC Ends: 01:19:30
Duration: 00:12:00
The Marshall Plan At Work - In Western Germany Rubble & destroyed buildings, statue. Staged: car pulls up in street w/ destruction, exchange of Camel cigarettes for gunny sack w/ man walking, then drive off (Black Market). 01:08:52 1950 & people shop from vendors of vegetables, cigarettes. Pharmacists, drug manufacturing in Hersh, Germany; penicillin. Sign: Telefondbau Und Normalzeit. Women work in factory; men work in factories. Clock manufacturing w/ many clocks. GOOD. Manufacturing & assembling ?? 01:10:57 Toolmaker working; manufacturing coin box, motorcycles, motorbikes, bicycles on assembly line. Typewriters assembled & tested. Polishing lenses. Precision gears inspected on comparator. 01:12:55 Man checking cameras. Woman taking picture. 01:13:10 Farming w/ horses; woman stacking shocks of grain. Men threshing. Oxen, sheep grazing. Men picking potatoes. Digging w/ mechanical digger behind horses. 01:14:40 Fertilizer plant ext. & interior w/ conveyors, large machinery. 01:15:04 Refugee woman & two children crossing a bridge over railyard, walking down past camera to barracks. CU sign: Zon. Durchgangslager Giessen - Dienststelle. Walking across yard. Tracking shot past people standing outside barracks for Displaced Persons (DPs). Playing guitar outside, women in windows. Older woman holding umbrella. Kids playing, MCU. Woman taking down clothes from line. Woman sewing in barracks as man watches. Women out door w/ pails. Kids washing in large washroom. Food passed around from window. Bread handed out. 01:17:22 Boy eating outdoors; old woman eating soup, young girls eating around table. Older people eating around table. Bald man sitting w/ head bowed outdoors/ 01:18:05 Destroyed neighborhood w/ large houses in background & trucks past on street. People walking. Construction & rebuilding w/ bricklayers, carpenters. Town fountain w/ statue above. Cars past & poster of Marshall plan. The End. Post-WWII Rebuilding; ERP European Recovery Plan; Propaganda; Cold War; Anti-Soviet; Post-WW2; Economics; Aid; 1940s; 1950s;