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.
The history of aviation. A glider being launched from a hillside in Germany. The glider is parked. Several men stand nearby. The glider in flight overhead. The first flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina on December 17, 1903. A still photograph of Wright Brothers' aircraft in flight. The pilot in a prone position while piloting the aircraft. Launching of Wright Brothers' aircraft in France on August 8, 1908. A launching tower, weight dropping and the take off of the aircraft are shown. Spectators in stands watch the air show. Headlines of a New York newspaper proclaim Wright's flight in France.
French President of Council of Ministers of the Third French Republic Pierre Laval arrives in New York. French ocean liner SS Ile de France underway at sea. Pierre Laval disembarks from SS Ile de France with his daughter Mlle Josette. Laval is greeted by representatives of U.S. State Department, city officials and French Ambassador to the United States Paul Claudel. A tug sprays water in New York Harbor. The party boards the tug Macom and is landed at the battery and escorted up lower Broadway to City Hall where Mayor Jimmy Walker welcomes the diplomats on behalf of the metropolis.
Officials confer during World War II. Allied war material stacked on a port in England, including U.S. tanks, trailers, razor wire, fencing, and trucks in preparation for invasion of Europe in 1944. American and British soldiers work and load the supplies for their shipment to the war front. U.S. soldiers unload at a beach site. British Army soldiers roll a covered artillery piece . It has a chalk handwritten label on the gun barrel that says, "Slim's Deadly Poison" and an image of skull and cross bones. Laborers building a German fortification in coastal France. German General viewing English Channel from coastal fortification along the Atlantic Wall. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Prime Minister of Italy Benito Mussolini confer in a meeting. The officials discuss strategies for the war over a large map. Newspapers with English headlines speculating about the coming Allied invasion. George Marshall and other Allied officers of the War Council of the united nations assembled at a large conference table and in discussion for the Invasion of Europe (D-Day invasion of France).
A trans-Atlantic Air France Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation (F-BGNA) crashes in Preston City, Connecticut, United States. 37 passengers and crew members of Air France Flight AF075 escaped death. The wrecked airplane and the damage in the area where the airplane crashed. People look at the wreckage. A woman carrying her child while seated in chair. Wounded in hospital beds. Doctors and nurses treat them. Other passengers are seated in chairs inside the hospital.
Hungarian rebels shoot behind a building between Károlyi and Cukor street (Budapest, Károlyi utca 9, 1053 Hungary) in Inner City, Budapest. Two men running away from the crossfire in Városliget (Budapest City Park in Hungarian). Soldier climbs down from tank in park. In a devastated street, a tank rolls in, with Soviet soldiers sitting on top. Abandoned Soviet tanks in Andrassy Avenue. Budapest City Park in flames. Tanks roll in Budapest, with many cheering Hungarians standing on top of tanks. A Roman Catholic priest, wearing black robes and biretta, blesses and offers prayer to victims of battle. Woman, wearing a headscarf, cries. The kneeling crowd stand up and clap for the freedom fighters. View of the Soviet War Memorial at the Tiergarten in the British sector of West Berlin. West Germans demonstrating behind the Brandenburg Gate ( Brandenburger Tor ) Demonstration in West Berlin. Demonstrators holding flags and a sign saying “Ungarns freiheit ist ermordet worden. Was wird aus unseren Freiheit?“ (“Hungary’s freedom has been murdered. What will become of our freedom?” in German). West Berlin police walk past demonstrators. West Berlin police fire water cannon and retaliate at demonstrators. French demonstrators in Paris walk in a somber funeral procession for the Victims of the Hungarian Revolution. French demonstrators rallying against oppressors of Hungary as menace to the liberty of France. Rioting French students vandalize and put to flames the Parti Communisie France (French Communist Party headquarters in Paris. French students run out of the burning French Communist Party headquarters. Firefighters spray at the building to contain the fire. The remnants of the French Communist Party headquarters after the flames were put out. Hungarian rebels in Budapest. Hungarian Communist books and leaflets, such as Szabad Nep and Lenin) being burned. Communist flags being burned.
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