Sound (music only, no narration), b&w, 21 min. After various difficulties, an unemployed Italian finds a job at the Aquila refinery (Trieste), which has been reconstructed thanks to the money and machinery sent by the United States through ECA. No date given, but probably produced between 1948-1951. Written, produced, and directed by Jacopo Erbi. Introducing Natale Peretti. Photography by Franco & Gianni Vitrotti; music composed and conducted by Mario Bugamelli and played by the Orchestra of Radio Trieste. Assistant Director, Tullio Kezich; Assistant Producer, Tullio Mainardi. Probably produced for ECA Italy. NARA ref. copy: VT.

EIA-6/1

NARA/306.8994F

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VT. Also on VT 306.05775 after 306.8994E

Motion Pictures

ERP IN ACTION

1950

Sound (English), b&w, 11 min. Sixth of twelve monthly newsreels about the European Recovery Program: France: a secondary school in Normandy (Lycee Coutance) is rebuilt; Italy: irrigation system in Po Valley; Trieste: a new ship, Australia, is launched; Austria: 4,000,000th ton of ERP supplies arrives; Greece: ERP exhibit, installed on schooner, will tour Greek islands; Germany: ERP exhibit mounted on railroad cars arrives in Stuttgart; Great Britain: annual Enfield trade fair; Greece: wild agrimi goat is sent as a gift to President Truman; The Netherlands: American incubators for premature babies, prize-winning ECA poster artist, American Ambassador Selden Chapin at Dutch-American friendship fete. 1950. Produced by the ECA Film Unit in cooperation with Fox-Movietone News, Paris, for ECA/OSR. NARA ref. copies: VT. Also on VT 306.05775 after 306.8994E.

Sound (English), b&w, 10 min. A day in the life of the "free city" of Trieste as it recovers from war destruction and the postwar squabbles of its occupiers. Thanks to Marshall Plan aid, there is food on the table again. And the hope of jobs: in manufacturing, on the railroad, in the reopened oil refineries and, especially, in the shipyards. (Note: Much of the territory of Trieste, including the City of Trieste, is now part of Italy. At the time the film was made, the city of Trieste was nominally part of a UN protectorate, the Yugoslav, American, and British occupiers having not yet agreed on a settlement.) 1950. Camera: Rino Filippini, Music: Alberico Vitalini, Editor Pino Giomini, Assistant Director, Micolo Ferrari. Produced and directed by Romolo Marcellini, Telefilm, Rome, for MSA. NARA ref. copy: VT (on 306.03747).

Sound (Italian), b&w, 19 (?) min. Halfway through the century and halfway through the four-year European Recovery Progam, this gives an accounting of what has been accomplished and a reminder of what still lies ahead. Still to be achieved are increased productivity, greater economic cooperation and European integration. In rather hectic March-of-Time style, the film cites some specifics of the ERP program: the destroyed dykes of Holland's Walcheren Island have been rebuilt; Turkish farmers have new combines and a better steel plow from Detroit; Denmark is producing more poultry and eggs and more pork with new varieties of high-grade feed; in Belgium the great port of Antwerp is back in business; Trieste is building ships again; ships ply the Corinth Canal once more in Greece; in France power is being generated at Donzere, in the Rhone Valley; Norway's northernmost iron mine at Kirkenes is producing; and in England, imported carbon black from the USA assures the production of automobile tires. 1950. Produced by the March of Time, Paris, for ECA.