A British film which demonstrates the use of various equipment against beach obstacles during World War II in Great Britain. A tabular obstacle. 200 lb Carrot charge is kept against the tabular obstacle. A tank rolls on a ground in the background. Concrete blocks in the foreground. Carrot charge being fired. Smoke rises due to firing. Mountains in the background. British soldiers stand near the tabular obstacle.
A British film which demonstrates the use of various equipment against beach obstacles during World War II in Great Britain. British soldiers stand besides a gully. Barbed wires in the gully. A tank rolls down in the gully. 200 lb Carrot is fired in the gully. Smoke rises due to fire. The tank moves in the gully. Soldiers and officer stand on either side of the gully as they watch the tank moving in the gully. Barbed wires in the foreground. The tanks move from the obstacles and barbed wires in the gully. 200 lb Carrot is fired against Mk. 1V. mines. Soldiers stand in a group. 80 feet wide and 80 feet deep holes in the ground.
A British film which demonstrates the use of various equipment against beach obstacles during World War II in Great Britain. A wire cutting grapnel is fired by 5 inched C.W. rocket. A rocket in between the barbed wires. The rocket is fired. Fire flakes in sky. A British soldier and a tank in the background. An area on a beach covered with barbed wires. An officer and a soldier stand near the area. A sea in the background.
Statues of Bolivar and of Artigas. The statue of Benito Juarez in Washington DC with the Watergate buildings behind. The statue of Winston Churchill at the British Embassy in Washington DC. Brief view of Winston Churchill waving to a ship and then seen in a car touring ruins of London following a German Blitz attack in World War 2. People wave to Churchill. Winston Churchill in a car waves back to them. A close up of Churchill. Pilots walk towards the aircraft parked at a field. Explosion blast of swastika at Zeppelinfeld Nazi Party Grounds at end of World War 2. British soldiers greet Churchill during World War 2 as he rides by on an armored car beside a machine gun, tips his hat and waves to soldiers. A French dignitary (appears to be President Rene Coty?) greeting and presenting an award to Churchill. Churchill waves to onlookers from a boat passing under a bridge. Churchill looks out of a window. African American woman sits on a park bench in Washington DC. A close up of a pigeon. An African American man reads a newspaper. The statue of Henry Longfellow at Connecticut Avenue. The statue of Taras Shevchenko. Aerial view of Kennedy Center in background and grounds of Teddy Roosevelt Island Park. A woman and a dog walk in the park. A branch of a tree. The statue of Theodore Roosevelt at the park and the trees in the park. Footage of Theodore Roosevelt speaking to people. View from Virginia side of Potomac River looking at Georgetown University and, beyond, at the Washington National Cathedral. The tomb of Woodrow Wilson at the National Cathedral. A close up of stained glass windows and architecture in Washington National Cathedral. View of Woodrow Wilson wearing a top hat and speaking to the people. A montage of scenes from World War 1. People crowd on a street in jubilant celebration for the Armistice Day in World War 1. Woodrow Wilson in a car tipping his hat to a parade crowd.
The Berlin Potsdam Conference in Berlin, Germany. USS Augusta underway. U.S. President Harry S. Truman aboard ship USS Augusta. The cruiser underway. Truman stands on a bridge of USS Augusta. Another dignitary stands beside him looks through a binocular. U.S. sailors aboard the cruiser. The sailors salute. Truman climbs down a ladder. People on a dock wave to Truman aboard USS Augusta. A close up Truman seated on a deck with other officials. Truman disembarks in Antwerp with U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. Truman gets in a car. People crowd on either side of a street and greet him. Cars drive on an airfield. Aircraft parked at the airfield. Truman shakes hands with an officer. The soldiers stand in formation. President Truman boards an aircraft. Other U.S. officials board after Truman. A man looks out from a window of the aircraft. The aircraft taxis. An officer salutes. The aircraft takes off. The aircraft in flight over clouds. The propeller of the aircraft rotates. President Truman and other U.S. officials deplanes in Berlin. They are greeted by an officer in Berlin. The officers stand under a wing of the aircraft in the background. Truman with U.S. officials walks and shakes hands with a delegate. General Marshall reviews a British military parade. The delegates seated at a conference table. The British soldiers parade. Tanks advance during the parade. The military soldiers fire field guns. Harry S. Truman shakes hands with UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The field guns in formation and soldiers fire the guns together. (World War II period).
A documentary reviews the beginning of the Marshall Plan in response to the post war (World War II) needs of Europeans. It depicts its effect on the lives of people during the first year of its implementation. People on a street. A map of Europe. Animation depicts the production of textile, output of coal, requirement of manufacturing industries, and declined food production. U.S. Secretary of State George Catlett Marshall, Jr., tells the people of Europe that if they work together the U.S. will supply money for food and raw material. Wide and close views of newsstand in England, United Kingdom. British man buys a newspaper to read about Marshall's appeal in the newspapers. Traffic on the streets in Paris, France. Foreign Minsters of Great Britain, France and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov arrive in Paris and ascend steps of building for a meeting to discuss the Marshall Plan. The delegates and representatives at the meeting. Molotov comes out from the meeting. Animated map depicts 16 European nations which get together to work for economic development. The delegates seated in a hall in Paris. The Organization for Economic Co-operation is formed. Delegates of European nations signing a document. Wide view of a port area in Norway. A book on a table reads 'First Annual Requirements Program Submitted to O.E.E.C.' Wide view of Piazza del Popolo in Rome, Italy with Flaminio Obelisk in the center and traffic on roads Traffic and people on roads of Ulus Square (Ulus Meydanı) in Ankara, Turkey, with the equestrian statue Monument of Victory, depicting Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on horseback. Busy street and pedestrian traffic along O’Connell Street in Dublin, Ireland, with Gresham Hotel visible. Traffic passing over the O’Connell Bridge spanning the River Liffey. The U.S. Capitol in Washington DC. A meeting of the Congress for the Marshall Plan. View of Paul G. Hoffman who was appointed the administrator of the Marshall Plan. Man smoking cigarette and tuning radio to listen to broadcast. Families and people in living rooms listen on radios to news about the European Recover Program (ERP). Men unload food supplies sent by the U.S. from ships at a dock. People listen to a dignitary. Men unload machines from the ship. Workers in the Netherlands ride bicycles. A man unloads cotton from a freight car. A sign for ERP on the freight car. Men at work in a textile mill in the Netherlands. A coal hoist is delivered in Britain and British miners dig out coal and use the hoist. The coal is loaded aboard a ship for trade. Fiat automobile assembly line seen in operation in Turin, Italy, with workers building new 1948 Fiat Topolino cars.
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