1...2...3...: A Monthly Review From Europe (Volume 1, No. 3) Reel 2 · Part 2

Description

This film is a newsreel that includes the following stories: 1.) Typhus threatens the port of Marseilles, with a description of how the World Health Organization (WHO) contains the disease. Police locate suspected cases and use DDT, and WHO traces worldwide disease trends for national health officials, 2.) British aviation developments in jets and gas turbines after World War II, 3.) Scenes of the planes "Vickers Viscount" and "De Havilland Comet," 4.) Efforts to help displaced persons such as the Kalmucks, descendants of Genghis Khan, after World War II. Included is a discussion of their history, heritage, and persecution under the Nazis. The film is a Marshall Plan film that was produced by the Mutual Security Agency (MSA).

Collection

Records of the U.S. Information Agency

Series

Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic and International Activities