1946 - 1963 LN 501-201 LN 501-201 LN 501-201 B/W SD 13:32:30
- 13:42:08 Pursuit of Peace Reel 2 part 1
B/W War Graves - blowing up aircraft after WWII. Demobilization
in US - fleet in mothballs - scrap jeeps. Production of household
/ white goods, irons, electric cookers. Whiz-pan.
13:33:14 1946 - United Nations - Bernard Baruch - proposal for
international control of all atomic energy.
13;33:40 Aerial views Berlin post WWII, bomb damage. US aid
/ Marshall Plan / Cargo ships unloading. Montage shots European
countries benefiting from aid - construction work - laying new
RR tracks - steam train - agriculture - haymaking.
13:34:24 AVs Berlin 1948 - ground shots empty railway stations
and roads - travel restrictions - blockade. Berlin airlift -
planes flying in low - supplies unloaded. Blockade lifted - border
gates opened.
13:35:10 North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Flags flying - montage
military - naval - aircraft - troops marching. Scots guards.
(NATO)
13:35:31 Korea - Night shots artillery barrage. Day, Korean refugees.
United Nations Security Council. Battle scenes Korean war.
Injured soldier carried on stretcher. Blood transfusion given
in the field. Korean peace talks - delegates arrive - sign.
13:36:39 Rocket fired - space race - Russian experiments with
weightlessness etc. Missile launched. Nuclear powered submarine.
Russia - Military parade in Moscow's Red Square - montage shots
Russian and US Military hardware intercut.
13:38:11 USAF Reconnaissance plane landing. Still pix missile
bases on Cuba. Brief shots re missile crisis - press. President
John F. Kennedy addresses the nation re crisis - announces Cuban
blockade - speech continues over shots Recon. planes landing -
film removed, developed and studied. operations rooms. B-52
bombers taking off. Brief shot JFK on small TV screen, people
watching.
13:40:02 Adlai Stevenson speaks at United Nations - asks USSR
delegate if they are putting missiles in Cuba. Russian delegate
refuses to answer. AVs Rssian ships approaching Cuba - UN Navy
ship running parallel.
13:41:26 Averell Harriman with Dean Rusk arrive at Kennedy holiday
home after negotiating atmospheric atomic test ban treaty in Moscow.
Press - photocall with President.
13:41:45 Moscow - Kremlin - treaty signed by US, Soviet Union
and Great Britain.
Cold War
1948 - 1950s LN 501-200 LN 501-200 LN 501-200 B/W SD 11:36:22
- 11:43:58 Berlin - Test For Freedom
Life in Berlin during Blockade / airift
11:36:22 Mass meeting addresses by Ernst Reuter S urging them
not to give up and appealed to the World for support. Father
Christmas airlift - gifts handed out to German children. Children
unwrap parcels and look at Santa and Red Indian. Choir singing.
11:37:30 Airlift shots - seaplanes bringing supplies. Pilot given
flowers. Children playing with model aircraft in streets. Aftermath
of plane crash, aircraft in flames - firefighting. Plane flying
low.
11:37:59 2nd May 1949 - blockade lifted - night shots as barriers
lifted. Day shots various celebrations.
11:38:21 East Berlin, communist demonstrations - scuffle between
two young men. Communists storm Greater Berlin City Hall. Non-communist
deputies establish government offices in West Berlin - free elections.
Animated map showing division of East and West Berlin.
11:39:20 Communist police HQ - guns issued. 1953 Berlin riots
- demonstrators massed on streets, Red Flag torn down from Brandenburg
gate - flag burning. Soviet / Russian tanks crush revolt.
11:40:04 Rebuilding of West Berlin with Marshall plan aid - construction
work - apartment blocks - modern architecture - Berlin Hilton
- modern roads / highways. Industry - clothing factory - women
at sewing machines. Heavy machinery in factory. Modern art -
iron sculpture. Airlift memorial. Congress hall. Kurfurstendamr
- street scenes. Berlin Film Festival - movie stars. Young women
- fashions. Street cafes.
11:42:14 Everyday life - Organ grinder, women listen from windows.
Man with giant pumpkin. Summer - Man relaxing in garden, soaking
feet in bowl of water and drinking beer. Man in hammock - watering
garden. Tourists sightseeing - large building - visiting lake
and countryside. Holidaymakers - sailing - crowded carparks.
Border signs. Family at lakeside in the evening, two boys run
into water watched by mother and father.
11:43:10 Berlin night life on Kurfurstendamr - exteriors nightclubs
- neon lights - fountains
11:43:27 City planners with models of a united Berlin.
11:43:35 Interior nighclub - dining - dancing.
Cold War
1948 ? LN 501-161 220609 220609 b/w Sd 07:26:42 - 07:36:34
The Promise of Barty O'Brien
Dramatised film to show the work of the Marshall Plan in Ireland
Four prop aircraft landing at Shannon airport - passengers through
arrival hall. Two passengers, one Irish and one American take
coffee in lounge. Irish man reminisces about his home.
Young man with donkey and cart standing on moor - pan round bog.
Power plant and cooling tower under construction. Men working
on installation - electricity pylons. Small farmhouse next to
cooling tower. Father telling son to keep away from power people.
Interior cottage, father tends fire. Father talking to man who
has asked to marry his daughter - says he doesn't like his "new
fangled" ideas.
Shots cooling tower now finished and power plant in operation
- smoke from chimneys. Exterior farmhouse.
1948 ? LN 501-161 220609 220609 b/w Sd 07:36:48 - 07:47:17
The Promise of Barty O'Brien
Dramatised film to show the work of the Marshall Plan in Ireland
Machine cutting peat. Men using shovels to load peat into waggons.
Young man decides to find out what happens to peat they cut and
jumps freight train. Small steam train carrying wagons filled
with peat up and past. Train into power station yard. Man watches
as waggons of peat are raised by crane and emptied into bunkers.
Furnaces burning turf - turbines to make electricity. Worker
checking guages in turbine hall - discovers young man and tells
him to leave then offers him a job. Young man walks out of plant
and goes home. Young man is employed as ashman's helper - emptying
hot ashes into dumpers. Young man also working on farm.
07:43:03 Inside the plant, young man walks past boiler controls
- notices something wrong and changes dials - boss tells him off.
Young man creeps back into house and is caught by father who
thinks he has been out with girl.
07:45:42 Old fashioned alarm clock showing twenty past two. Peat
fire burning in open hearth. Young man has dream sequence about
power plant - dials. Inside the plant engineer suggests to young
man that he attends night school.
1948 SN 901-001 220292 220292 B/W Sd 11:29:32 - 11:31:51
Truman Speaks to Congress on State of the Union
Capitol - Truman welcomed by congress. Truman speaks re cost
of living and inflation - corporate profits - says he wants $40
tax credit for all and support of the Marshall Plan
1949 / 1950s ? LN 501-127 LN 501-127 LN 501-127 b/w Sd 18:00:45
- 18:13:18 A Seed is Sown
Shows exchange initiated through Marshall Plan in which farm youths
lived and worked in other countries, sharing ideas and techniques
in agriculture.
AV Capitol, crowds at 4-H club gathering - young european farmers
who had attended camp financed by Marshall Plan
18:01:13 Young boy takes 4-H club oath. Young boys educated in
farming / agriculture. Washing and combing bull for show. "
Girls have their own tasks such as preserving and other home making
tasks " - girl with jar of preserves / home dressmaking.
18:02:05 Washington, outdoor meeting of 4-H club.
18:02:32 Young American farmers at airport leaving for Europe.
Goodbyes. Plane takes off.
18:03:11 Denmark - agricultural fair - Marshall Plan exhibit.
(ECA) Young US farmer visits pig and dairy farm. Chicken farming.
Cows milked by machine. Weeding sugar beet field.
18:04:50 France - Young woman farmer from Kentucky visits farm
in France. French family with baby. Girl joins in harvesting
of wheat by machine and with hand scythe. Threshing. Farmer
showing grain to girl. American combine harvester at work.
18:06:43 Girl visits blacksmiths shop. Visits fruit orchard -
fruit being bagged on tree for protection. French farmers custom
at end of harvest. Drinking toast.
18:08:00 West Germany - Young Kansas farmer visits pig and potato
farm. Tractor lifting potatoes, women picking and placing in
baskets. Pigs in pen. Pigs suckling. Cooking potatoes for pigs.
Feeding pigs. Young farmers relaxing - swimming.
18:09:50 4-H club members return to US. American farm which is
being visited by English girl Alison Reeve. Girl shown printed
information pamphlet. Young boys and Alison being taught about
bull.
18:10:53 Connecticut - 4-H club sign New London County. Girl
looking at tractor. Girl with family having dinner in open air.
Ext church and interior service in progress. Square dancing.
18:12:18 Montage shots of above - reprise and short shots farming
around Europe.
1949 LN 501-126 LN 501-126 LN 501-126 b/w Sd 17:34:10 -
17:43:16 Europe Looks Ahead PartOne
Montage shots daily life around Europe post war. Stamp ERP - European
Recovery Programme.
Shipyard - workers on ships - painting anchor chain. Ship on
booklet which is being shown to class of school children. Marshall
Plan. Industry - smoking chimneys - interior factories - steel
production. People looking at posters showing European Economic
Progress.
17:36:56 Walcheren island off Holland - remains of wreckage on
shore from WWII. Dykes collapsed and sea had reclaimed land.
Post war farming, reclaiming the land, tractor driver. Harvest
- grain / wheat.
17:37:33 Steam shovels carrying out further land reclamation -
dykes being built.
17:37:50 Turkey - agriculture - farming. Tractor. Local expert
and American advisors instructing Turkish farmers - new machinery,
plough from Detroit, combine harvester. Loading wagon with flour.
17:38:56 Denmark - chicken farming - feed supplied by Marshall
Plan. Livestock farming - pigs, cows. Cheese tested. Cheese
and other products loaded onto lorries for export. Docks, loading
ships.
17:40:00 Antwerp Port - dockers loading ships with barrels. Top
shot harbour. Cargo ships.
17:40:54 Italy - people looking at posters re reconstruction
of Italian ports funded in part by Marshall Plan. Rebuilt railway
bridge crossing Po river. Freight train over river.
17:41:38 Trieste - port / docks - CU cargo with countries of
origin. Shipyard in Trieste, ships under construction. Ships
leaving Trieste harbour.
17:42:48 Ship going through Corinth canal in Greece. Rebuilding
of canal following WWII using American engineers and equipment.
Pireaus port / docks.
17:43:25 River Rhone - work to divert the path of the river between
Montdragon and ?. Huge machinery - earth moving equipment.
1949 LN 501-126 LN 501-126 LN 501-126 b/w Sd 17:44:18 -
17:52:54 Europe Looks Ahead Part Two
River Rhone - work to divert the path of the river between Montdragon
and ?. Huge machinery - earth moving equipment. Work is being
carried out to channel water into new hydro-electric reservoir
/ dam.
17:44:41 Norway - northern most iron mine in the World being re-equipped
and modernised. Shots town, snow covered buildings. Man walking
next to barbed wire fence which forms the border between Russia
/ Soviet Union and Norway. American mining equipment used - iron
ore.
17:45;30 Northern Austria - interior steel mill / foundry shots.
17:46:18 Volkswagon cars in West Germany. Interior car factory
- motor parts. production line.
17:47:05 England - rubber tyre factory. Sacks of carbon black
stamped with USA being unloaded. Rubber production. HMV radio
- announcer says that the British standard of living has improved
during 1949 partly due to Marshall plan. Workers leaving factory.
Workers in canteen eating. Women in grocery shop.
17:48:20 Freight train - men working on overhead electrical wires.
Exports to America - men packing crates - Austin Motor Cars for
export to USA. Women polishing cars.
17:49:22 Various shots construction work using heavy machinery.
Planning office.
17:50:05 Animated map Europe showing proposed areas of economic
co-operation. Paris HQ of O.E.E.C. Organisation for European
Economic Co-operation (Common Market) - men entering building.
Meeting between OEEC and Marshal Plan representatives.
17:51:00 Strasbourg - meeting place - flags flying. Conference
calling for the political unification of all the free nations
of Europe. Council of Europe in session - Winston Churchill -
Paul Henri Spak of Belgium.
17:51:31 Education - children taught about united Europe. Customs
signs of England France Italy. Customs checks made in various
countries. Border post lifted and lorry drives through.
1950 LN 501-126 LN 501-126 LN 501-126 b/w Sd 17:11:05 -
17:23:10 Liquid Force - Hydro Electricity
Electric pylons / power lines - sparking as arms moving. Montage
where electricity is used - transport / trolley buses - trains
- industry - Car factory, motors on production line. Montage
streams, waterfalls and reservoirs. Animated map showing projects
underway in building dams. Building dams on River Rhone. Construction
work using heavy machinery - commentary explains that a lot of
the machinery and the money / finance to construct these projects
comes from Marshall Plan. Men working day and night - welding.
17:16:00 Montage shots use of electricity - man at dials - operating
theatre in hospital - dentist - display white goods for kitchen.
17:16:26 Construction work on massive Central development. Cement
carried in buckets on aerial cables / invention looks like cable
cars. Huge technological achievement. Men walking over huge
pipelines which will carry water to turbines.
17:19:15 Building different dam in another location using old
methods. Men hammering wood.
17:20:10 Uses of power - Woman on telephone exchange - woman in
home using phone - man turning dials of generator ? Radio mast
/ broadcasting. Man in home listening to radio. Children on
roundabout / carousel at funfair. Men up pylons and telegraph
poles - electrification.
17:21:05 Interior farmhouse, open fire burning in grate. Electricity
turned on for house.
17:21:13 Construction work on dam in the Alps - Dam on Marron
river under construction. Dam in the Dordogne nearing completion.
Rhine river dam which was damaged during the war but now ready
for use again. Dordogne dam in operation.
17:22:14 Interior power station - turbines - power lines. Turning
switches in power station sending electricity to any part of France
or Europe. Electricity sparking on pylons
1950 220271 220271 182752 TRD / B/W sd 01:17:20 Communism
Large massed parade of communists on Mayday in Berlin. France
demonstration against Marshall plan aid. Tokyo students riot.
Homefront Communism at Union Square. Valentin Gubitchev deported
following conviction.
1950 LN 501-127 LN 501-127 LN 501-127 b/w Sd 18:13:20 -
18:18:30 Rice and Bulls Reel 2
Documentary: Shows how cooperation among farmers and Marshall
Plan assistance irrigated and reclaimed the salt lands of the
Camargue in Southern France to increase rice production.
R.2. Scenes of neighbours planting and later harvesting rice.
Farmers discuss how the Marshall Plan has benefitted their community.
Tractor - ploughing land, looking at soil. Line of men sowing
rice in flooded field / paddy. Nice shot two old farmers in shadow
looking over fields.
18:14:40 Rice crop - harvesting by machine.
18:15:41 Farmers at long table toasting harvest. Farmer at head
of table with bulls horns. Another farmer talking about benefits
of marshall plan. New pumping stations allowing farmers to pump
salt water into Rhone. Farmer demonstrating using handfuls of
rice how production has gone up dramatically.
1950 LN 501-162 220610 220610 b/w Sd 08:11:29 - 08:23:03
Marshall Plan At Work In Great Britain
London stockshots - Tower Bridge - horseguards on sentry duty.
Horse-drawn delivery van from Scotts of Piccadilly - drivers
in top hats. Two men in top hats having conversation. Rural
countryside - farms - agriculture. Manor house - home of Washington
family. Gravestone of William Penn. Farmer driving tractor in
orchard. Tractor ploughing- good shot line of tractors through
field (British farmers are the most mechanised in the world).
08:13:26 Night shots - Houses of Parliament - night shots Piccadilly
- London West end with lights. Bovril sign. 08:13:40 Blackout
and blitz during WWII.
08:14:03 Construction / building work in post war London - bricklayers.
Blocks of council flats. Interior grocery shop / store - woman
buying food - weighing bacon on scales - weighing butter - some
food still on ration. Cheese weighed. Exterior Lipton grocery
shop. Housewife having ration book marked. Housewife leaves
with her shopping.
08:15:38 Flashback to Jarrow in 1930s - closed factories. Depression,
men on street corners - closed shops.
08:16:01 Summer 1950 - same street, shops open and propering.
Shipyards - docks - stock of ships propellors. 08:16:31 Open
cast mining of ?. Farmland next to factories. Interior factory
- production lines - women workers taking bars of soap? from
line. Interior cotton mill - women working on looms.
08:17:29 Scotland - whisky production. Shots distillery - old
man rolling barrels marked with Glenlivet etc. Interior man in
white coat smelling whisky in glasses and identifying which malt
they are. Bottling plant - bottles on production line - being
babelled.
08:18:33 Export shops for tourists - tax free. Man being shown
suiting material, socks and other mens clothes. Wife trying jumper.
08:19:11 Exterior Firestone factory - interior tyre / tire production.
Rubber - carbon black - Finished tyre. Tractor factory - man
driving finished tractor at speed. Tractors on back of flatbed
truck for transportation. Trucks - British road services - loaded
with various machinery for export to help the economy.
08:20:06 Line of Vauxhall cars along road - sign in window Manufactured
by Vauxhall of Luton. Cars lined up on dock waiting for loading
onto ship. 08.20.38 Barge taking on grain
08:20:50 USA - shops in America selling British goods. Traffic
on roads. 5th Avenue shops. Woman shopping in British Tweed store.
British furniture and Church's shoe shop in New York.
08:21:34 UK - Food imports - unloading meat / carcasses at docks.
Port of London.
08:21:47 English leisure pursuits - crowds at swimming pool -
men playing bowls - Old Pub - interior pub people drinking. Landlord
calls time. Montage shots - going to work, walking across bridge
- traffic - Train crossing bridge (Forth ?).
1950 LN 501-287 220789 220789 B/W SD 05:26:00 - 05:27:00
U.S. Aid Spurs Oil Drilling In France (Marshall Plan)
Sheep pasture w/ oil rig in background & drilling. View of
tower, tilt down. Looking up, view looking down from top. CU
Oil starting up & running down pipe fittings. CU of man standing
in oil.
05:26:45 Pipes and filling RR cars Cars leaving towards and past
camera.
'A new and promising oil field is opened up in southern France
with the aid of Marshall Plan funds. The newest American drilling
techniques are employed.'
1950s LN 501-161 220609 220609 b/w Sd 07:47:33 - 08:00:05
The Marshall Plan At Work
Lakes of Kilarney - tourists - landscape scenics. Tourist getting
onto horse and cart outside hotel, waving. Toursits mounting horses
- pony trekking. Blarney Castle, County Cork. Tourists tradition
- kiss the Blarney stone. Remains of early church and castle
- Castle and house belonging to Sir Walter Raleigh. Bubbling
river - falls.
07:50:37 Sign Office of Public Works Brosna Drainage. Plan to
turn bog land into useful areas. Rivers dredged. Trench drainage
machine cutting through bogs. Electricity transformer which was
once level with ground, bog has dropped three feet. Men cutting
peat by hand - turf laid out to dry. Donkey and cart into which
turfs are loaded. Small cottage with smoking chimney from peat
fire. Men piling up peat moss. Moss in bales transported for
export. Mechanical digger of peat. Men putting dried peat on
conveyor belt. Peat loaded into trucks from conveyor. Small train
takes trucks to electric power station. Crates raised onto elevated
railway - fed into bunkers. Power station - pylons. Thatched
cottage. Sign Rural electrification. Power lines across fields.
Construction work on tower of thermal power station. Hydro-electric
dam.
07:55:52 ExteriorFactory - sugar refinery. Limestone quarry -
men digging by hand. American trucks used to transport limestone
to nearby farms. Limestone transferred from big truck to smaller
for use on farm. Spreading lime on farm field / agriculture.
Tractor ploughing furrows. Tractor turning hay - farm labourers
making haystacks. Traditional farmhouse, boy with donkey, geese
in yard. Pigs in pens, chickens out of coup. Cattle in fields.
Cattle market for export.
07:58:48 Dublin city centre with traffic. Various street scenes
and buildings. Man buys ? from woman street peddler. Scenics.
1950s ? LN 501-107 LN 501-107 LN 501-107 b/w SIL 07:09:07
- 07:19:58 Moroccan Outpost
Possibly Sultan Sidi Mohammed sitting on throne like chair. Man
hands him papers Sultan sitting at desk, brough papers to sign.
07:11:30 Unid. men touring gardens of palace ? looking at building
- man repairing mosaic
07:14:30 Inspecting irrigation pump (Irrigation financed with
help of Marshall Plan)
07:15:31 Interior palace ? group meeting
07:16:17 Exterior Moroccan Soldiers marching with rifles. Soldiers
on horseback playing musical instruments ride through arch. Military
drill on parade ground
07:18:44 Sultan arrives at gathering ?
Need card check
1950s LN 501-127 LN 501-127 LN 501-127 b/w Sd 18:18:36 -
18:29:10 Land of Apulia
Row of women sitting at tables cracking nuts / shelling almonds
and singing. Poverty.
18:20:32 Accordian player walking along with group of young men
/ unemployed. Village street, statue of Roman poet Horace. Women
drawing water from well, bucket of water used to water plants.
Irrigation / water shortage.
18:21;55 Crowds gathered in village square to celebrate the opening
of water standpipe. Dignitary walking through square and getting
water from tap. Running water to Italian villages has been made
possible by Marshall plan. Horse drinking water - girl drinking
water from running tap.
18:22;38 Drought - dried up river beds. River in full flood two
months a year. Flooded countryside.
18;23:10 Work being carried out on walls of river beds, building
walls to contain flood water. Construction work. Building houses.
Woman getting bucket of water from standpipe. Salt marshland.
18:24:35 Village - church bell ringing. Religious procession
- villagers carrying statue and farming tools. Catholic Priest
holds service on edge of marshes. Men sowing by hand on newly
reclaimed land. Rain / storms. Men in streets watching rain.
Salvaged areas once again salt marsh - crops lost.
18:28:04 New agricutural machinery courtesy of the Marshall Plan.
Bulldozers in line moving into area to reclaim land permanently.
1950s LN 501-127 LN 501-127 LN 501-127 b/w Sd 18:29:26 -
18:37:48 The Home We Love Part 1 (Marshall Plan)
Documentary: Focuses on the french town of Mazamet and its role
as a great wool and leather producing centre, before and after
World War II.
Typical old French man leaving home, walking in village / town
narrow streets. Stops to talk to old woman on doorstep. Top
shot town of Mazamet - rooftops - valley. Old man stops at shop.
Modern buildings in Mazamet, banks. Various brass plaques with
names of business connected to wool industry.
18:31:58 Farmer with flock of sheep. Sacks of wool unloaded from
freight train. Ruins of small wool factories which had to close
when the flocks died.
18:32:38 Waterfall / river / canals leading water into factories
for washing wool. Method of removing wool from hides by soaking
in water and scraping. Denapping process. Piles of sheep hides
imported from round the world.
18:34:17 Men round notice board in street writing down wool prices.
18:34:35 Complete denapping process shows - hide soaked in water.
Machines / rollers - hides fed through to remove dirt and grease.
Skins redipped and then put into fermentation chambers. Hand
denapping - wool is scraped from hides with special knives. Skins
dried and sent for curing. Interior factory - Skins softened
in chemical baths - through rollers - tanning, skins into huge
drum. Skins polished and pressed.
1950s LN 501-127 LN 501-127 LN 501-127 b/w Sd 18:37:55 -
18:44:35 The Home We Love Part 2 (Marshall Plan)
Documentary: Focuses on the french town of Mazamet and its role
as a great wool and leather producing centre, before and after
World War II.
Wool factory. Women carry bales of wool for processing. Wool
washed in large containers - steaming vats. Clean wool put in
spin dryer operated by woman. Clean wool transported round factory
on conveyor belts. Women sorting wool.
18:39:22 Old man wearing beret sitting on stone bridge lights
pipe, remembers the time just after the war when France had no
money or industry - factories with machines standing idle, streets
with closed shops and houses with closed shutters. Closed banks.
Men chopping logs - fishing in river.
18;40:50 Modern day - busy streets / shoppers / industry up and
running. Lorries through town. Commentary says 7 million pounds
Sterling given through Marshall Plan brought Mazanet back to life.
Factories working. Heavy machinery / mechanisation. Warehouses
full of wool. Looms - spinning - mills. Bundles of wool for export.
Bundles of wool on lorries.
18:43:20 River - old man gets lift in truck up hill to his home.
Shots over valley.
1952 LN 501-247 220728 220728 B/W SIL 09:53:29 - 10:02:29
Reconstruction of Berlin
HSs, looking in both directions on Schloss Str, business street
in the US zone. LS, modern apartment building on Innsbrucker
Platz, cyclists move past in foreground. LSs, of Air Lift Memorial
and Tempelhof Air Base building. Shots of building on Meringdam
Str. VS, shoppers on the Kurfurstendamm Str in the British zone;
a sidewalk display box. Hotel, department store in the US zone.
Two women inspect window of a jewelry store, they enter. Window
of a radio shop. Partially reconstructed building housing Berliner
Bank on Kurfurstendam Str. VS, sidewalk stands selling fruit,
cosmetics and housewares against background of bombed building.
MS, fruit stand. A cyclist and his girl read amusement ads on
circular billboard; walk away. Civilian policeman directs a pedestrian;
policeman directs traffic. White-coated policeman directs vehicular
traffic at a busy intersection. LS, ruins of old buildings.
VS, Russian War Memorial. VS, Brandenburg Tor / Gate LS, old
German Reichstag building. Two-decker bus drives on residential
street. View of the entrance to the subway, the "S"
Bahn. Shot of a building surrounded by scaffolding and a sign
indicating Marshall Plan aid for "Clay Allee". Autos
drive on a residential street; car traffic in shopping street.