Description: I. "The campaign against hunger." Commentary records achievements in importing food (especially from America) over film of unloading in Bremen and Frankfurt, and of stockpiling and shopping in Munich.
II. "New help for the war's disabled." Men without right hands work successfully with interchangeable artificial 'tool hands' at a lathe, and on car repairs.
III. "Aktuelles in Kuerze." a. Nationalisation of British coal industry (general mining scenes; Shinwell, Bevin and Attlee at conference, "National Coal Board" sign goes up). b. Montgomery stops off in Berlin on way to Moscow. c. Eder dam reservoir is drained (flooded valley landscape visible again) for repair work on dam.
IV. A portrait of Frankfurt: film illustrates effects of war on town's past and traditions, and the reconstruction that is in progress.
V. "Bilder aus aller Welt." a. Laundry rooms in public bath-house in Holborn have a special "men's evening" b. Skiing in the Spanish Pyrenees. c. Performance in San Francisco, of one of his own piano works, by an 8 year old infant prodigy from Shanghai.
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Attlee, Clement Richard (person)
Bevin, Ernest (person)
Montgomery, Bernard Law (person)
Shinwell, Emanuel (person)
National Coal Board (regiment/service)
Keywords: delegations, British international - goodwill: Montgomery visits Berlin (object name)
economics, British national - trade: nationalisation (object name)
engineering, civil, German: dam repair (object name)
industry, British - primary: coal mining (object name)
reconstruction, German: Frankfurt (object name)
society, German - ethnic: Frankfurt (object name)
Germany & Berlin, Berlin (geography)
Germany & <Eder Dam> (geography)
Germany & Frankfurt (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: German
Title language: German
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 1225 ft; Running time: 13 mins
