Italian traffic policeman directs traffic in front of the Assicurazioni Generali building on Piazza Venezia in Rome, Italy. Pedestrians fill the sidewalks in Via Veneto. The Porta Pinciana (Via Vittorio Veneto, 196, 00187 Roma RM, Italy) is seen in the background. A Hotel doorman doffs his hat in Via Veneto. People eat at outdoor café. Newspaper boy selling newspapers. A newsstand called 'Paese Sera' contains newspapers and magazines including many American ones such as LIFE, Screen Land and Modern Screen. American soldiers pose for a photograph in front of St. Peter's Basilica (Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City).
An Italian documentary about Rome, Italy. Opening scene shows people going up and down the Spanish Steps in Rome, Italy (Italian: Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti). The steps ascend a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti. At the top is the Trinità dei Monti church (Piazza della Trinità dei Monti, 3, 00187 Roma RM, Italy). A man sits on a concrete pillar reading Time magazine. A man sips an espresso in front of the Pantheon (Piazza della Rotonda, 00186 Roma RM, Italy), with obelisk and fountain on the Piazza della Rotonda in front of it. People patronizing shops along Via del Corso. A woman tries on a fashionable dress in a designer boutique, as the proprietor stands nearby. A woman looking closely at necklaces in a jewelry store window. A woman customer trying on jewelry at a shop. Woman takes off ring from finger. Closeups of her hands with rings on them. Elegant, jeweled necklace displayed in a shop window. Neon signs in entertainment district at night. Two women in a bar. Behind them is the bartender, and on the wall is a large reproduction of the Reclining Venus, by Venetian painter Giorgione. A doorman at the entrance to a night club. Inside, patrons crowd the floor, dancing to rhythmic Latin music. Tourists partying inside the night club. Abrupt change of scene shows smoke rising from the stack of a steel plant. Inside men are seen working near a furnace. Sparks fly from welding. The welder seen working over a huge metal part. Next, women and a man are seen handling armfuls of wool. Other women operate a spinning machine creating thread from the wool. View inside a dress maker shop where a woman removes a dress from a form. Several women are busy making dresses in the shop. Supervisors examine the works in progress. A shoemaker is seen working at his bench. Customers in a shop look at new woolen blankets. People doing banking at a teller's window. The teller annotates a customer's bank book. A group of well-dressed men and women mount motor scooters and proceed to a park where many other scooters are parked. Sports fans fill the area around a soccer stadium. Some are buying tickets at booths. Crowds enter the stadium. View of stadium filled with fans. Players run on the field as fans applaud in the stands. It begins to rain, and fans pull up coat collars. Most of them raise umbrellas.
Film begins showing an area in Italy in which some buildings and houses are being rebuilt after WWII. Clothes are drying on lines between the houses. A man stands outside a house after completing rebuilding. The new house is built inside the opening of a tunnel. A woman occupant looks out her window. The house number: 526A is painted on the wall of the original tunnel structure. View from a height of this section of Rome. Men converse as they stand next to their bicycles near a building. A gathering of men. Closeup of one holding a sleeping infant. Men walk out the gate of an aviation-related factory. The gate is closed as they leave. Closeup of a sign on factory gate reading: Closed. Italian Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi speaks about unemployment and land reform. A poster announces (in Italian): Applications for land assignments and formation of farmers' lists. A man with an application in his hand. Men gathered discussing the land reform applications. A farmer driving his tractor pulling a piece of farm equipment. A map delineates the path of a pipeline. Irrigation canals fed by the pipeline. A truck is seen carrying farm produce. An man operates levers on a fuel storage facility.
Petroleum storage facilities in Italy. Next, a remote-controlled arm withdraws a hot steel ingot from a furnace in a steel mill. Italian men in the mill operate levers, and a container of molten steel moves along by overhead crane and then pours contents into another container. Two steam locomotives move an open flat car containing a huge precast concrete structure. Other precast concrete structures are seen beside the railroad tracks. A harbor formed, by huge concrete rip rap precast concrete structures, is seen with a road upon it and a protected harbor with boats in it. Men work with shovels to ensure smooth movement of coal being discharged from an ore carrier. A large bulldozer drives out of a factory and is parked alongside a long line of them. Views of ships being built in the port of Genoa. Two new ships under construction anchored with huge mounds of ore piled up behind them. Workmen assembling large storage bins. Large buildings under construction surrounded by scaffolding. Views of new modern looking apartment houses (Palazzine) and commercial structures. Roma Termini train station (Via Giovanni Giolitti, 40, 00185 Rome, RM, Italy) in Rome, Italy. A Tabaccheria and Cartoleria shop signs behind an Il Paese newsstand. Man buys newspaper from newsstand. Man reads Italian newspaper. Italian politicians addressing huge crowds in front of the Duomo Cathedral (P.za del Duomo, 20122 Milano MI, Italy) in Milan. Italian men browsing books inside a bookshop. Italian books for sale. A man smiles with painting behind him. A man smokes cigarette on top of a roof. Poster advertising a new Italian movie called (in English) The Way of Hope (Il Camino della Speranza). Actress Elena Varzi, who stars in the film, is seen talking with two men on steps beside a building. She chases some pigeons from the steps with annoyance. Views of movie making in Italy. A director on a film set adjusts the hat on an actor who is wearing a historic military uniform. Famous Italian movie director Vittorio De Sica looks at a strip of film. A movie called "Anna," is advertised on the side of a panel truck. Traffic of trucks, cars, motor scooters, bicycles and trams, cross a bridge.
Shows the recovery of Europe after the war. Animals in the field. European villages and towns resuming normalcy. A woman arrives at a shop to buy a stamp to post a letter. The shopkeeper pastes a stamp, bearing "ERP" for European Recovery Plan, on the envelope. People stand in front of a ship in a harbor. Teacher teaching children in a school. They read various books. Eighteen European nations are assisted by the Marshall Plan.
People work in steel factory in Europe. The Marshall Plan advances in Europe after the end of World War 2. People watch the facts and figures of the steel production after war. A map shows Walcheren, Netherlands. People work in the fields and restore farm activity in Walcheren. A farmer drives tractor in the field. People using a crane in their work of rebuilding the dykes and revitalizing the area. Men working in the farm fields in Turkey, in the South East of Europe. They harvest crops and attend meetings to learn of improved farming techniques.
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