The Marshall Plan at Work in Austria - 1950 Part 3

Description

One of twelve films in the series. Scenes in the film include: views of Vienna and rubble being cleared away; shields of four occupying powers; MPs inspected and their pistols checked; Austrian countryside; Austrian 4-H children working on a small farm; husband and wife loading milk cans onto platform; building of cold storage plants; women cutting grain; power lines, mountains, lakes, dams, new dam and power station built with help of Marshall Plan aid; Austrian lumber industry; people and vehicles in streets; women trying on shoes; salesman displaying leather goods; autos on highways; tourist hotels being rebuilt and refurnished with help of Marshall Plan aid; Hermann Goering’s retreat being made into a tourist hotel; and more dams and mountains. A Marshall Plan film, presented by Editorial Film Productions Ltd., London, for ECA/OSR, directed by James Hill, narrated by Jack Ralph, produced by Jim Mellor, and written by Arthur Calder Marshall.

Collection

Records of the U.S. Information Agency

Series

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