Film titled 'Me and Mr. Marshall' depicts developments of coal mines in Germany and aid to other European nations affected by World War II. German coal miners dig deep in a coal mine soon after the end of World War 2. Volunteers awarded at a ceremony. Volunteers board a train and proceed for work at coal mines. Volunteers eat food, give their shoe size, under go training on mine machinery. Miners on lift move underground. Miners at end of the day walk out tired and blackened by coal dust, from a mine. Miners take hot showers after work and get clean clothing hung high on ropes. Salary given to workers for a day's work. Headlines of German newspapers about Marshall Plan. General George C. Marshall speaks his plans at a meeting in Washington DC, America. Aerial views of ruined buildings and factories, wrecked harbor, refugees in tenements in Europe after World War II. Buildings, monuments and bridges in London and Eiffel Tower and other buildings and civilians on roads in Paris, and view of Kremlin in Moscow, Soviet Union. Map shows countries under Marshall recovery plan. View of meeting in progress of Conference for European Economic Cooperation in July 1947, in the Grand Dining Room of the French Foreign Office. Meetings of leaders of nations adopting Marshall plan. Ruins of industries of Germany. Ruins on the ground after war in London, with Big Ben in the far distance. Workers at a factory. Miners take a horse inside a coal mine. Empty coal cars at a German coal mine. Men push coal cars full with mined coal out from mine, on rails. Views of buyers in suits at a German trade show and conference, promoting German products and industries to potential buyers in other countries, a few years after the end of World War 2. U.S. Congress and President Harry Truman in Washington DC approve the Marshall Plan and provide monetary aid to other European countries. Scenes in Germany as it recovers economically after the war: Workers in a factory. Harbor, fruit and vegetable market; customers in a bakery; coal cars and machinery at a coal mine under normal operation under the plan.
The Moscow Kremlin and Moskva River in Moscow. The Vodovzvodnaya Tower on the southwestern side of the Kremlin at the banks of the Moskva River. Columns of men marching along a street in Moscow. The Red Square of Moscow showing Saint Basil's Cathedral and Spasskaya Tower. Hats displayed in a shop window. The Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. A female soldier proudly holds up a flag. The Soviet sailors march along the street.
Soviet visitors line up to visit Lenin's tomb, in Red Square, Soviet Union. Soviet guards at the entrance of the tomb. Kremlin, Saint Basil's Cathedral and the Spasskaya Tower in the background. A view of Red Square.
Soviet officers walking outside Military staff academy. Inside, an officer stops to look at statues of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. Women join the Soviet officers at a social event. Soviet military officers and officials at a dance.
A motorcycle race in a Moscow countryside. Soviet men and women participate in a motorbike race. The motorcycles race in rough dirt terrain. The winners pose after the race.
An extremely long line of Soviet people wait to visit Lenin's tomb in Moscow, Soviet Union. A column of Soviet people enter the mausoleum in Red Square. Soviet guards look at the people entering the building. Bas relief sculpture of Marx, Engel, Lenin, and Stalin. Saint Basil's Church in the background.