Man removing wool from hides by soaking and scraping in Mazamet, France. Wool factory in the town. This process of removing wool from hides is called Denapping process. Piles of sheep hides imported from round the world. People write down something from the notice which has been pasted on a wall in the town. Complete denapping process is shown. Hides are soaked in water. Machines hides fed through to remove dirt. Then hand denapping is done. Wool is scraped from hides with knives.
Skins dried in the factory in Mazamet in France. Skins softened in chemical baths through rollers. Tanning in huge drum to preserve them and make them waterproof. They are polished and pressed.
Women carry bales of wool for processing in Mazamet in France. Wool washed in large containers with warm and cold water. Clean wool put in a machine for drying, operated by a woman. Women sort wool from the cleaned bales. Old man wearing beret sits on a stone bridge, and lights pipe. He remembers the time just after the war when France had no money, industry and factories. Machines stand idle, streets with closed shops and houses with closed shutters. Closed banks. Men cutting logs of wood. Other men fishing in river. Afterwards Marshall Plan provided financial aid. People back to work. Factories opened up. Processing of wool taking place.
Processing of wool in warehouses in Mazamet, France. Spinning mills and machines in factory. Women gather wool from the floor. Processing of yarn in the factory. Machines process wool into yarn. Men test bundles of wool for export. Bundles of wool transported in trucks. Another man receives him. A bridge over a river. An old man gets lift in a truck uphill to his home. The driver helps the old man get off the truck. The old man hiking. The old man looks at the valley.
Quaker members of American Friends Service Committee help people in France. They work at the Matson Maternelle de la Marne Maternity Hospital in Chalons-sur-Marne, France. Exterior of the hospital. Two nurses come out, holding a baby. Exterior of the hospital which was opened in 1922. Groups of nurses walk in the ground. American, English and French nurses in the hospital. A patient arrives in a horse drawn carriage. Nurses help a pregnant mother to step into hospital. Interior of the hospital ward. Separate ward for dependent children who come in with their mothers. Nurses play with the young children. They feed the babies. Maternity ward. Mother in bed is given baby. Patient leaves hospital with husband and new baby.
Film begins with views from low flying airplane showing a domed building and government buildings in Vienna, Austria. Next, a city street with apartment buildings is seen. A slate is inserted reading: Isolated from the outside world by the blockade and financially ruined by the depreciation of the krone, one half of the population has been housed at the rate of four person per room." People are seen in a rural land settlement project. Slate explains: " The mission is aiding 22 land-settlements-cooperative building projects which are enabling groups of all classes to escape from the stricken city. 50% of the work is done by the settlers themselves. The average cost of one in the settlement shown is $170," Next, land settlers are seen at work constructing dwellings. Another slate reads: "With food prices beyond of even those who were formerly well-to-do, the land settlers raise the food which they cannot afford to buy." Men and women settlers are seen preparing plots of land to grow food. A settlement street is shown with people busy tending to the fronts of apartments.
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