HUNGER BLOCKADE Part 2

Description

Summary: (Edited Subject) Sequence: Shutting off power in factory. Man pulling switches; lights going out as men are working at their benches. People crowding onto streetcars; crowds of people on street corner listening to radio. Scenes of stalled, filled coal cars on railroad siding at Helmstedt. CU, coal in cars. Pan, British planes on field. Near Hannover, Gen Sir Brian Robertson speaks to pilots. Short shot, laborers loading flour onto plane. At Gatow, French soldiers help unload supplies from plane. Laborers loading mail bags on plane. Sunderland flying boat landing on river; boxes of supplies unloaded from craft. Bags of coal being unloaded from C-54 by German laborers. Dr "Seuer" addressing a huge crowd standing in rain in Berlin. Insert, German newspapers highlighting crisis. Huge crowd assembled at Hamburg. Meeting of the city assembly in Berlin. Herr Schoenfelder addressing council in English. Hamburg's Mayor Brauer speaking in German closes the meeting by appealing to the other Allied powers not to give up Berlin. Subject ends with montage of St Paul's Cathedral, London Bridge, Capitol in Washington and German newspaper headlines.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities