Various types of vehicles use the road, in United States. A number of parked cars at a public parking lot. Vehicles move on a busy street outside a motel. Motor truck and a trailer moves on a road. Flatbed car carrier truck parked on side of road with several new Ford automobiles on it. Two women leave their house, sit in a car and drive away. Cars, trucks, buses and a horse cart on a road. An early Greyhound Bus bound for Washington approaches on a highway. A late 1920's or early 1930's automobile passes a horse driven cart at high speed.
Film titled 'Me and Mr. Marshall' depicts developments of coal mines in Germany and aid to other European nations affected by World War II. German coal miners dig deep in a coal mine soon after the end of World War 2. Volunteers awarded at a ceremony. Volunteers board a train and proceed for work at coal mines. Volunteers eat food, give their shoe size, under go training on mine machinery. Miners on lift move underground. Miners at end of the day walk out tired and blackened by coal dust, from a mine. Miners take hot showers after work and get clean clothing hung high on ropes. Salary given to workers for a day's work. Headlines of German newspapers about Marshall Plan. General George C. Marshall speaks his plans at a meeting in Washington DC, America. Aerial views of ruined buildings and factories, wrecked harbor, refugees in tenements in Europe after World War II. Buildings, monuments and bridges in London and Eiffel Tower and other buildings and civilians on roads in Paris, and view of Kremlin in Moscow, Soviet Union. Map shows countries under Marshall recovery plan. View of meeting in progress of Conference for European Economic Cooperation in July 1947, in the Grand Dining Room of the French Foreign Office. Meetings of leaders of nations adopting Marshall plan. Ruins of industries of Germany. Ruins on the ground after war in London, with Big Ben in the far distance. Workers at a factory. Miners take a horse inside a coal mine. Empty coal cars at a German coal mine. Men push coal cars full with mined coal out from mine, on rails. Views of buyers in suits at a German trade show and conference, promoting German products and industries to potential buyers in other countries, a few years after the end of World War 2. U.S. Congress and President Harry Truman in Washington DC approve the Marshall Plan and provide monetary aid to other European countries. Scenes in Germany as it recovers economically after the war: Workers in a factory. Harbor, fruit and vegetable market; customers in a bakery; coal cars and machinery at a coal mine under normal operation under the plan.
Unhealthy living conditions and shabby conditions of people in blue collar slums in the U.S. Factories and industrial areas emit smoke, smog, and pollution from smokestacks in the early morning, as children ascend a set of wooden steps in foreground. Piles of trash outside a residential slum area of factory and coal workers. Landscape of crowded shacks and industrial factories clouded with smog. Children play on wooden walkways and railings near shacks. A boy slides down a railing standing up. Sad looking girl looks on. A little boy in overalls has his hands in his pockets and a sad, blank expression on his face. A train passes by on an overhead trestle a few feet away from simple shack homes. Women and children live in unhealthy conditions during Great Depression. Group of children scamper and run over railroad tracks. Shabby children in the dilapidated slum area. A woman watches them. Fast approaching locomotive train speeds toward camera and passes by. After train passes, a boy races back onto the track area to fetch something there. Many scenes of muddy dirt roads, slums, shacks, and factory mills. A man loads coal pieces into a hand bucket and limps back toward a shack, as his right leg has a prosthetic. African American man brushes chickens away from doorway of wooden shack and enters front door. Woman empties wash basin out front porch as dog looks on. Children ascend wooden steps in tenement complex. Children play with a puppy dog. Glum looking sad boy and girl children stare forward. Woman hands laundry from line as boy walks by and enters outhouse. Man smoking pipe draws water from a hand pump. Elderly woman hangs wash on line. Man returns home carrying lunch box. Young woman and old man and old woman each pump water. Man stands at table with wash basin and soap, and scrubs dirt off hands and face after work. Overweight woman cooks food at a coal stove, adds coal and stirs. Smoke from brick chimney. Black smoke from large steam shovel crane and smoke pollution from railroad trains in marshaling yards.
Fifth Army enters Naples in Italy during World War II. Convoy of ships on harbor of Naples. Soldiers and officers move in jeeps and trucks. Horse carts move on roads. Crowd of civilians watch the movement of the 5th Army. Soldiers sitting on trucks move on the roads of the city. Sign 'To Rome' on street. Soldiers buy food and merchants load potatoes in a military vehicle. Sign on Bank of Naples reads 'Mussolini Has Met His Finish, Hitler prepared for him'. Derailed street cars used as barricades. Rubble and debris at a bombed portion of Naples.
Naples Italy during World War II. 8" Howitzer under cover of trees, firing at a target. U.S. Army soldiers talk on field radio phone and receive directions from a liaison plane. Soldier read maps and plot coordinates for firing of howitzer. American soldiers look through sights of the Howitzer and adjust controls. View through howitzer barrel shows rifling inside. View of liaison planes parked in a field.
Military personnel try to put out a fire using foam after crash between a P-47 and a B-24 in Naples Italy. Men rush in the ground for help. Burnt fuselage of the P-47. The tail and burnt section of B-24 plane. (World War II period).
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