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Factory workers leave for home after work in Italy.

Factory workers leaving a factory after work in Italy. Smoke rises from factory smokestacks. A smiling boy riding a carousel horse.

Location: Italy
Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080392
The saga of water in Apulia, Italy: Scarcity and floods

Statue of the Roman poet, Horace, who wrote of the scarcity of water in Apulia. Villagers drawing water from a communal well. A woman waters crop from a bucket. Villagers gather as officials open tap of new water supply provided with help from America. The supply comes from a 700 mile aquaduct that brings water across the Appenine mountains from other side of Italy. Scenes of Apulia inundated by flood waters during two months of rainy season. Men at work building dikes to control flooding.

Location: Apulia Italy
Date: 1950
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027103
Attempts to reclaim salt marshes for cultivation in Apulia, Italy.

Views of unusable salt marshes in Apulia, Italy. All able bodied men of the region band together in valiant effort to drain and reclaim salt march land for cultivation. They commence the effort in a procession led by local Priest to invoke God's blessing on the endeavor. Church bell rings in the village. They succeed with their hand tools, and cultivate the reclaimed land. But heavy rains destroy their efforts and the salt marshes return. Now, they try again, with aid of heavy equipment: tractors, and bulldozers, that can do more than simple hand tools.

Location: Apulia Italy
Date: 1950
Duration: 4 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027104
Factory workers repair factory and return to work in Italy post WW2.

Italian factory workers sweeping the floor before starting their work as part of Marshall Plan recovery post World War II. A worker is seen polishing a machine. Workers repair and paint a cashier booth with sign “CASSA” (“Cashier”). A pair of workers cleaning a machine. Smoke rises from factory smokestack. Italian workers punch their timecards. Italian machine shop workers operate lathes. Wide shot of machine shop workers in factory.

Location: Italy
Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080390
Scenes of Apulia, in Southern Italy.

Women and girls sit and work at numerous tables where they crack nuts and shell almonds for meager wages. They sing sad songs as they work. A group of men with farm tools pass by a hill side. An accordion player leads the group. They are itinerant farm laborers of the region.

Location: Apulia Italy
Date: 1950
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027102
Recovery activities in Europe under the Marshall Plan.

Discussion of advances in Italy's transportation system. Hundreds of bridges have been built. Also seen is the Port of Trieste and advances in shipping and shipbuilding.

Location: Italy
Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027090
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