Challenges faced by the Allied Military Government while trying to reestablish Italian self reliance in agriculture during World War 2. Film opens showing Italian-sourced food supplies being delivered, as Narrator discusses problems of black market. He notes that Italian wheat growers who fail to declare excess grain are raided. Officials are seen entering and seizing grain from warehouse of such a grain merchant. Loaded trucks pass checkpoints set up on highways. View of official examining bill of laden from a truck being checked. Armed Italian Carabinieri ride on trucks of grain to prevent pilfering. Glimpse of AMG officials as narrator speaks of strict rationing system. Italians at a table, counting out ration coupons. Ceiling prices of all commodities seen posted at public places in Sicily. Sacks of seed potatoes being loaded from an AMG warehouse onto a horse-drawn cart that is then seen driving away, fully loaded. A boy on a farm unloades a sack of seed pototoes. Barefoot Italian women and girls planting the new crop. Fishing boats being readied to put out again. View from a fishing boat as men retrieve a large net filled with fish. An open air marketplace filled with Italian shoppers. A window sign announcing American bread. A woman shooing flies away from her open stall in the market as an old woman samples some of her wares.
A little girl dressed in white descends from a DC-6 passenger airplane operated by Linee Aeree Italiane. A dignitary also arrives with his wife. Airline passenger representative hastens up stairs to meet him and aircrew members escort him. A woman greets him with a kiss, while he is descending steps from the plane. He kisses a woman. He is warmly greeted by many people. Members of the press approach him and he is photographed as he walks.
Brenner Pass rail line smashed in September 2, 1943. Bomb group in flight. Official in bomber. Aerial view of Trento. Bombs dropped over Brenner Pass. Bombing over Brenner Pass in Bolzano. Bomb explosions. Smoke rises over target. (World War II period).
Italian defensive position on Alps mountain range. Italian soldiers stand on a mountain. Italian soldiers stand near bunkers dug into a mountain side and covered with sheets. Italian soldiers climb up and down the hill. On the aerial rope way called "Telefrica," a tram car runs on ropes moving supplies back and forth on the mountain. Italian soldiers sit on rocks of mountain with rifles. River in the background. Soldiers march down the hill and through a town area filled with rubble. Soldier ties ammunition baggage on the back of a dog. Dogs carry baggage up the mountain for the soldiers. Italian soldier moves a machine gun into position. Soldier looks through binoculars near machine gun emplacement in World War I.
Thousands of Italian prisoners of war entering a processing center following the battle of Caporetto in World War I. Italian troops and some civilian refugees moving slowly along the side of road. Several wagons pulled by oxen. Some troops ride on the wagons of Italian refugee families. Oxen pulling wagons with families and their belongings. Many Italian soldiers wave and smile for camera. Some rest at a roadside area while other continue along road with horse-drawn wagons. Civilians entering a village. Troops from different units meet and greet one another. Italian troops assembled at prisoner of war camp, with wood buildings and snow-covered Alps mountains in background.
Austrian soldiers skirt around a dead horse on road, during World War 1. Damaged and abandoned Italian war materiel at side of fast flowing shallow river. Pack horses fording the river. Mounted soldiers fording the river. Huge pile of abandoned Italian artillery pieces at side of road. Austrian troops advancing as Italian prisoners of war march in the opposite direction on the other side of the road. Italian soldier comes upon a fallen soldier near a stone house. He removes his hat and stands respectfully over the fallen one.
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