A young journalist travels to Strasbourg to report on the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) for his newspaper. He explains how all six member states work together with the aim of creating a European Community, and describes extensively the tasks and functioning of the ECSC. The English version begins with a text "Six Nations resolved to substitute for historic rivalries a fusion of their essential interests, to establish the foundation of a broad and dependent community among peoples long divided by bloody conflicts: and to lay the basis of institutions capable giving directions tor their future common destiny, have decided to create a European Coal and Steel Community."
The two language versions differ slightly in the comment and the length of the sequences.

Genre
Documentary

Credits
Production Country: Germany
Film Production Company: Dido-Film, Düsseldorf
Commissioning Institution: Information Service of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community
Director: Hans Joachim Ruths
Producer: Unknown
Script: Dieter Werner / Waldemar Lentz
Cinematography: Carl Selbach / Heinz Sasse / Alexander Treleani / Erich Berger
Film Editing: Georges Klotz
Trick Techniques: E.M. W. Huschert
Music: Paul Coenen

Technical Information
Original Film Format: 16 mm (German Version) / 35 mm (English Version)
Duration: 25 minutes (German Version) / 18 minutes (English Version)
Colour: Black & White

European History, European Community of Coal and Steel, High Authority, Second World War, Schuman Declaration, Production Increase, Improvement of Efficiency, Golden Triangel, Labour Migration, Free Movement of Labour, Vocational Education, European School, Luxembourg, Strasbourg, USA

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Dutch, English, German

Video

Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Frankfurt/Main (German) /
Bundesfilmarchiv, Berlin /
BFI National Archive, London (English)

The film were digitised from the copy located at the Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Frankfurt/Main and the BFI National Archive, London

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 version of the film in other language which is not part of this collection is: Si tratta di 150 Milioni (Italian)