The representatives of the Marshall Plan nations meet at the Paris headquarters of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation or OEEC (now known as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development or OECD). View of the Château de la Muette, the headquarters of the OEEC (2, rue André Pascal 75016 Paris, France). OEEC dignitaries get off from staff car and enter a glass door. An OEEC representative of France speaks at the conference. OEEC delegates discuss the Marshall Plan and cooperation among the nations. An OEEC delegate flips a document while speaking. View of Strasbourg, France. Flags nations belonging to the Council of Europe. Leaders of the Council of Europe convene in Strasbourg. Prime Minister of United Kingdom Winston Churchill smokes cigars at the headquarters. Belgian Prime Minister Paul-Henri Spaak is also in the meeting. Children entering Volksschule school. Teacher points to a large map of Europe inside the classroom. A boy study a diagram of the flags of European countries. Children study about the nations of Europe in a school. Sign reads “H.M. Customs”, “Douane”, “Dogana Italiana” and “Douane Zoll”. Customs signage from different European countries. A tall man boards a barge. Officer inspects paper from man. A man inspects passport in a French customs border control. A border control police inspects a car and opens gate in Mauberge, near the Belgian border. A truck leaves the border control. People from different nations of Europe working together for its development.
Admiral Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Kolchak, Leader of the White Russian (anti-Bolshevik) forces during the Russian Civil War that followed the Russian Revolution. He descends steps from palace at Omsk, Russia. He salutes an honor guard and enters an open car accompanied by his aides. Scene shifts to peasant recruits drilling in a field. They stand in formation and practice shouldering arms. Final scenes show White Russian troops assembled and on parade in Barnaul, Altai Krai (Russia). A group of soldiers stand by artillery field pieces. Others parade and include contingents of infantry, mounted cavalry, and horse-drawn artillery units. Troops seated on ground beside heavy machine guns. Troops bringing supplies ashore from a small ship on the Ob River.
T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) driving, and Prince Faisal riding with him, in a Ford Model T car, on a road in Arabia. Several men riding in a car followed by T.E. Lawrence, on horseback, with a contingent of armed Arab cavalry. A unit of Arab infantry marching past a group of reviewing officers and officials at the side of the road. During period of Arab Revolt.
Street scene in Turkey, circa 1924. Group of Turkish Government officials seen walking near a government building. Next sequence shows an official entourage of officials entering through a City Gate. They are surrounded by local dignitaries and members of a military unit. A large umbrella sunshade is being held over one or more members of the delegation. Then, with the crowd watching, Turkish troops entertain by performing Dances. A closeup of Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, in mufti or ordinary clothes, watching the performance. Change of scene to earlier time. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk seen in military uniform, during Greco-Turkish War.
President Woodrow Wilson voting in the Presidential election on November 7, 1916, in Princeton, New Jersey. He is seen walking with an entourage, along the sidewalks of Chambers Street, past the entrance to G.A. Rule Real Estate offices, where men on the steps, remove their hats in acknowledgement and respect. The President and his party continue on to the old firehouse, that has been set up as a polling place. After greeting people there, President Wilson enters to vote. He comes out of the building after casting his ballot and doffs his hat to the camera and people in the vicinity. The scene shows American soldiers at an army camp casting their ballots in the election. They huddle around tables where there names are checked on voter lists and they receive ballots. One soldier is seen sealing his ballot before depositing it in a ballot box. Camera focuses on a ballot table with soldiers crowded around it. The final segment of the film contains completely unrelated footage of British women in the United Kingdom working in an industrial operation during World War 1. Some are seen at a railroad siding, clearing up scrap beside open rail cars. They use wooden wheel barrows with wooden wheels. Two women push a load of steel rail parts on a small flat rail car. In another location at the plant, women push a flat rail car loaded with lumber to a spot where several other women remove and stack it. Many steel railroad wheels are lined up in the background. The camera focuses on women pushing railroad axles, assembled with wheels, along tracks, toward a building in the rail yard. Two women touch-up paint on the side of a railroad car, as another woman (supervisor) watches. Back at the area of stacked lumber, two women fabricate something using a saw and hammer and nails on lumber placed atop wooden saw horses. Another woman wields a hammer in the background.
British infantry of the Bedfordshire Regiment are seen in their trenches on the battlefield in France, during World War One. They are held in reserve, in their positions, as other units move forward to establish new lines of defense.
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