Explaining the benefits of the Marshall Plan, this animation film illustrates the European economic cooperation as an international circular process. One country produces goods that the other country does not have. They start to exchange their products and help each other to increase their productivity. Trade between the countries is encouraged and the Marshall Plan gives each country a new lease of life.

Genre
Animation Film

Credits
Production Country: France
Film Production Company: Les Gemeaux
Commissioning Institution: Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA)
Director: Jacques Asseo
Producer: Unknown
Script: Paul Guth
Cinematography: Unknown
Animation: Maurice Henry
Film Editing: Unknown
Music: Georges Parys

Technical Information
Original Film Format: 16 mm
Duration: 8 minutes
Colour: Colour (The German film copy is in Black & Whilte although the film was made in colour)

European Cooperation, Marshall Plan, European Trade, Transatlantic Partnership, European Integration

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English, French

Video

National Archives, Washington, DC

The film was digitised from the copy located at the National Archives, Washington, DC.

Fritsche, Maria: The American Marshall Plan Film Campaign and the Europeans. A Captivated Audience?, London : Bloomsbury 2018.

Fritsche, Maria: Das Schiff und der Strom – Subtiles Werben für Europa in den Marshallplan-Filmen, in: Clemens, Gabriele (ed.) : Werben für Europa. Die mediale Konstruktion europäischer Identität durch Europafilme, Paderborn : Schöningh 2016, pp. 471-488.

Bruch, Anne; Clemens, Gabriele ; Goergen, Jeanpaul & Tode, Thomas: « Cooperation means prosperity » – Das Werben für die Integration Europas in den Marshallplan-Filmen, in: Clemens, Gabriele (ed.): Werben für Europa. Die mediale Konstruktion europäischer Identität durch Europafilme, Paderborn: Schöningh 2016, pp. 191-226.

Other versions of the film in other languages which are not part of this collection are: L’Histoire d’un sauvetage (French)
A Story of Recovery