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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221301-28
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1944
Country: USA
Location: Bretton Woods,Mount Washington Hotel,New Hampshire
TC Begins: 11:27:54
TC Ends: 11:29:29
Duration: 00:01:35
WWII - 1944, USA: United Nations Hold Monetary Conference At Bretton Woods, NH. Jul44 Steam engine arriving toward camera at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire w/ several men walking along wooden railroad platform. People walking w/ suitcases along platform. LS of large Mount Washington Hotel w/ entrance columns & cars parked. Buses pulling up & unloading, luggage stacked. 11:28:31 MCU outdoors of one of China representatives w/ Secretary Henry Morgenthau & wife. Int. of large meeting from stage & rear of room as Morganthau addresses meeting from in front of many nations’ flags. Harry Dexter White may be sitting behind him w/ hands folded. Delegates listening. 11:29:03 Ext. w/ delegates standing talking on steps & lawn. LS Delegates posing; mcu Morganthau seated, w/ other delegates standing behind. Pan across. WW2 government newsreel; Propaganda; Post-WW2 Economics; Post-WWII planning; NOTE: Conference largely arranged by Harry Dexter White was held from 01-22Jul44; delegates from US included Lauchlin Currie & John Maynard Keynes. It set up GATT, IMF & International Bank For Reconstruction & Development and established exhange rate management.