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The administration of Italian Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi copes with issues of unemployment and land reform in 1950s

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.

Date: 1952
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675027085
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.

Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027090
American officials and Pope Pius XII welcome the ships that bring first European Recovery Program shipments

First European Recovery Program shipments under the Marshall Plan reach Italy and are unloaded. Priests read out prayer from scriptures. Pope Pius XII along with American officials welcome the shipments.

Date: 1948, June 3
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037843
Enrico Caruso and his family at an Italian port.

Enrico Caruso with his wife arrive in a boat. Caruso and other debark. Caruso and his wife at the dock. Stationary boats in the background.Caruso plays a hand-clapping game with several women. His wife goes into the water to swim. He teases her. Caruso picks up a chair and approaches the cinematographer threatening, playfully, then sets chair down and sits on it, backwards. He engages in fun, joke boxing with a young man. Caruso hold his daughter and his wife stands next to him. [Note: These are last known surviving moving images of Enrico Caruso, taken in Italy 1921, only a few weeks before his untimely death. His daughter Gloria (seen in the film) was born in December 1919, and was a year and a half. Enrico Caruso died from pleurisy in Sorrento on August 2nd, 1921, aged 48.]

Date: 1921
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040020
Italian troops moving to the front and taking German prisoners during World War I.

Italian troops marching 8 abreast in formation, along a road in Italy. They wear field uniforms, including Lippmann helmets (copy of the Ardrian helmet), but no visible weapons or bedrolls. A partially collapsed steel bridge being examined by Italian officials. Contingent of armed Italian troops in battle gear, make their way up a steep slope in woods with snow on the ground. Scene shifts to Italian soldiers escorting large number of German prisoners of war out of a town (in background).

Date: 1918
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042452
Native troops under Italian officers advance on horses and control African colonies in Africa.

Native troops under Italian officers control African colonies of Italy located in Africa (location unspecified, by likely Libya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, or Somalia). African soldiers move with animals and belongings. Native troops arrive on horses carrying rifles. Troops advance in army vehicles. They wave as they pass by.

Date: 1929
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043282