Produced by the Information Service of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community, the film – consisting mainly of newsreel material from the early 1950s – is a retrospective of the events that marked the creation and the first years of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). It also describes its objectives, operations and activities as well as the functioning of the institutions of the ECSC: the High Authority and the Court of Justice. It includes an excerpt from the speech delivered by Robert Schuman, on May 9, 1950, to propose the creation of the ECSC, the signing of the treaty in Paris in April 1951, the speeches made by Jean Monnet in August 1952 during the inauguration of the ECSC High Authority, and in April 1953, on the eve of the opening of the European Common Market for Steel and Coal.

Genre
Compilation Film

Credits
Production Country: France
Film Production Company: Unknown
Commissioning Institution: Information Service of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community

Director: Daniel Wronecki
Producer: Unknown
Script: Unknown
Cinematography: Unknown
Film Editing: C. Stengel
Music: Anton Dvorák

Technical Information
Original Film Format: 35 mm
Duration: 12 minutes
Colour: Black & White

European Community of Coal and Steel, High Authority, Court of Justice, Robert Schuman, Jean Monnet

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English, German

Video

Cinémathèque du Ministère de l’Agriculture et de la Pêche, Paris /
Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin

The film was digitised from the copy located at the Cinémathèque du Ministère de l’Agriculture et de la Pêche, Paris. Digital reproductions of the film are available online at: Institut national de l’audiovisuel (INA), Paris (2019) and Centre virtuel de la connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE), Luxembourg (2019)

Clemens, Gabriele: «Auftrag Europa» – Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Filmwerbung der europäischen Gemeinschaften, in: Gabriele Clemens (ed.): Werben für Europa. Die mediale Konstruktion europäischer Identität durch Europafilme, Paderborn: Schöningh 2016, pp. 43-128.

Other versions of the film in other languages which are not part of this collection are: La storia di un trattato Italian / Een plan komt tot leven Dutch / The History of a Treaty English