This film looks at the problems associated with feeding an ever increasing world population, concentrating particularly on Western Europe. It looks at old inefficient methods of agriculture compared with the modern technological advances being made with increased yields, more mechanisation and better use of the land

Genre
Documentary

Credits
Production Country:
Film Production Company: Wessex Film Productions, Ltd., London
Commissioning Institution: Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA)
Director: Julian Spiro
Producer: Ian Dalrymple
Script: Unknown
Cinematography: Bob Ziller
Film Editing: Unknown
Music: Unknown
Commentator: Unknown

Technical Information
Original Film Format: 16 mm
Duration: 16 minutes
Colour: Colour

Marshall Plan, Economic Cooperation Administration, Agriculture

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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.