HUNGER Part 1

Description

Summary: CU, hungry child in streets. Two boys walking along street. Exhausted child seated on sidewalk. Woman feeding child, child licking mother's lips. Women brawling in front of ration office. (Italy) Women foraging for food in garbage cans. (Greece) Crowds of people in ration office.(France) Emaciated Indian woman. Indian kids rushing for refuse thrown in the streets. European boy, Indian children, forcibly taking bread from boy's hand. People fighting over scraps of food in garbage dump. Indian natives eating straw and paper. Children licking garbage can tops. LS, field of wheat. Harvest machines in operation. Nazi scorched earth; wheat stacks burning; dead pig; women crying over corpses in field. AV's, gutted city. Int German Ratskeller before war: Man picking up glass of beer. Fat man eating sausage. Stacks of flour being hoisted from ship. Ration ticket being stamped. MS, Hermann Goering speaking: "We will give up butter for cannon!" (English dubbed in) Scenes, activities in German armament factory. German troops parading in German city. Montage: Panzer divisions in attack. German soldiers seizing livestock on farms; putting animals in trucks. Slavic women loading grain aboard farm wagon, sheep and goats being rounded up by Germans. German guard looking on as women work in wheat field. CO, soiled and torn photograph of Adolf Hitler and Goering. CO, child wearing oversized shoes walking in mud. MS, door opens showing empty jars in cupboard. Wrecked farm equipment; gutted farm fields; dead German soldiers in battlefield. CUs, starving babies in nursery. Women on line waiting for food. (London) California workers carrying baskets of fruit. Net full of fish being drawn up. CUs, whistles on ships' stacks being sounded. Europeans watching workers carrying in bags of UNRRA food. Children on line. English people waiting in groups. Old woman crying as she walks thru wreckage. East Indian girl walking dazedly thru wrecked street. Chinese walking thru wreckage. Shrunken old woman seated on curb. Wheat being poured into hold of vessel. Mechanical arm sucking up stray bits of wheat on deck. Animated chart showing the growth of population as against decrease in raising of food. Boy whimpering and pointing to his mouth.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities