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WWII - 1942, Canada: Documentary, Food - Weapon of Conquest Pt. 2 of 2

Reel Number: 221515-09

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1942

Country: England,France,Germany,United Kingdom

Location:

TC Begins: 01:21:31

TC Ends: 01:32:50

Duration: 00:11:19

WWII - 1942, Canada: Documentary, Food - Weapon of Conquest Pt. 2 of 2 Continued... Meeting of leaders of ??, illustrated map of Germany’s expanding plans. High angle train w/ farm production heading to Germany, soldiers on the train eating, soldiers unload bread from the train. Big hall, soldiers eat at long tables. CU Hitler drinks out of tea cup, officers smile. 01:22:28 France People on streets, poverty, hunger, closed down shops. Cattle on field past pillboxes & left behind tanks, sheep, tractors on field w/ aircraft parts laying around. Long lines of French war prisoners on road, held in Germany as laborers they create food shortages in their home countries. People queue to work in Germany because of promise of food & work, CU people sign, railway station packed w/ people, crowds w/ luggage on the platform, people say goodbye & board train, wave from train. 01:23:48 Forced slave labor, people work in the field. High angle people queuing for food handouts, bread on table, food handed out in France & ??; depending on priorities, various shots of food handed out, last in the queue - Jews get what ever is left, food thrown out of truck. 01:24:49 Greece w/ wounded, starving people on street, shots of starved animals, horse, pig; dead bodies lying on the streets, in houses, floating in the water. 01:25:12 Title w/ words of American Secretary Morgenthau: “American agriculture, after victory over Germany, will have to feed hundreds of millions throughout Europe & Asia..” High angle trains, ships & grain elevators. England w/ tanks moving thru London; people, soldiers walking on streets, double-decker buses. 01:26:06 LS English country side, big fields, park. LS smoke over city, smoking chimneys. Ship on stormy sea, crew on board submarine, ship’s crew looks in binoculars, alarm sounded, crew members run on the board, CU heavy artillery loaded, CU guns, LS ship, explosion, smoke in the air, heavy shooting, explosions, ship on fire, people in rescue boats, smoke from sinking ship. Men climb up cargo net from rescue boat, have a smoke, shot of wreckage from ship floating on the water. (GOOD convoy battle montage) 01:28:16 War planes in the air, explosions at night, shooting, flashing lights, bombs hit buildings. USA to Britain “Food Flying Squad” trucks drive thru city in ruins, people wait on street, trucks pull over and set up the soup kitchen, people handed out cups of tea, shot of the submarine on the water. Farm land cleared; garden allotments worked; barrage balloon. 01:30:02 London zoo, pigs in the cages. Army join in harvest for local food supply against future bombings. Troops march w/ rakes on their shoulders & work on the crop field. Ships at sea, shots of Washington & Ottawa. Country fields, cattle herd, piglets feeding, pig herd thru the farm, ext. Ls chicken farm, int. farm man put little chicks in boxes, chickens & int. & ext farm, man collects eggs, cattle in farmyard, cheese production, workers cut big pieces of cottage cheese, man stamps the cheese blocks. Ships & cargo. Men shovel phosphate off wagon behind tractor; workers spray orchard, fields, migrant workers, cattle herd & cowboy. WW2 Agriculture aid; Survival; Nazis; Jewish; Propaganda; NOTE: Partial or entire card sold at per reel rate.

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