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Post-WWII - 1950ca, Documentary: Aquila R2 of 2

Reel Number: 221552-14

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1950

Country: Italy,Trieste

Location:

TC Begins: 23:21:02

TC Ends: 23:31:51

Duration: 00:10:49

Aquila R2 of 2 Man walking, docks & railroad yards behind; thru empty city streets. Ext. Perugina store w/ well-dressed woman & boy out, into new Ford car, wooden station wagon. Man breaks window, steals book. Chased by policeman thru streets as people watch. Others join chase & caught by policemen in jeep who take him away. 23:23:11 Police station & policeman at desk looks at book, then man; checks his papers & contents of billfold; sends him away. Man down endless steps. 23:24:58 Italian newspaper headline. CU ECA symbol on building. Men looking at table top plans w/ flags & cameramen; man signing aid check. 23:25:44 MCU brass band playing. Ship crane unloading crates marked ECA Aquila from ship, USNS Pvt. William H. Thomas, w/ US flag in CU. Women watching, laughing. Crates moved on dock. 23:26:43 Fuel trucks past, large oil storage tanks. Men unloading crates, sacks of flour or cement, men sawing boards. Steel plates hoisted & placed for petroleum storage tanks; welded. Construction of oil refinery. 23:28:39 Man presents papers & hired, others wait & watch. Tilt up completed refinery, man walking among pipes & tanks, turning handles. 23:30:20 Workers leaving refinery; man walking home past election sign; runs greeting wife & children. 23:30:58 Fuel trucks leaving refinery; along highway thru countryside & towns w/ Aquila on trucks. The End. Marshall Plan Film; Neo-Realism; Neo-Realist; Italian; Italy; Trieste (?); ca 1950; 1940s; 1950s; Documentary; Economics; Post-WWII - Poverty; Unemployment; Anti-Communist; Post-WW2;

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