WORLD IN FILM. Issue no. 45, BLACK MARKETERING Part 1

Description

Summary: VS, German civilians purchasing black market articles from vendors on Berlin Street. MS, truckloads of German police arrive. They jump out of trucks and surround the black market area. VS, police round up the black marketeers, put them into trucks and drive them to police station. WAR CRIMES TRIALS.: Nuremberg, Germany: MS, spectators in courtroom, pan to Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, British prosecutor questioning witness. HS, tribunal seated, Chief Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence presiding. MS, Justice Robert H Jackson, Chief prosecutor at table. MS, Herman Goering on witness stand answering questions in German (Live Sound). WORLD IN FILM ISSUE #47, WORLD FOOD PROBLEM.: Int. conference room; President Harry S Truman in discussion with Ex- Pres Herbert Hoover. Seated in to their left are ex-Vice Pres Henry A Wallace and former Governor of New York, Herbert H Lehman. VS, starved people, probably India. VS, food ration lines in England and Germany. MS, food ships in harbor, cuts, grain poured into ship's hold. PROZESS MAUTHAUSEN (WAR CRIMES TRIAL).: MS, Tribunal (American officers). MS, American prosecutor questions one of the accused and hands him a card with the numeral 13 for identification purposes. CHIEFS OF STAFF AT CONFERENCE.: Quebec, Canada: General George C Marshall, General H H Arnold, Admiral William D Leahy, Admiral Ernest J King and others sitting around converence table. PRESIDENT HARRY S TRUMEN SIGNS HISTORIC FOREIGN ASSISTANCE BILL.: 1948: The signing of the Foreign Assistance Pact which is the Marshall Plan and aid to China; Witnessing are Senators Arthur H Vandenber, Thomas Connally, Representative Sol Bloom, Speaker of the House. Joseph Martin and others. CU, President Truman making a short statement about the bill (Live Sound). (No Captions)

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities