Comprehensive study of industry from individual craft skills to mass production in the machine age. Includes footage of the Renault factory outside Paris; Danish silversmiths; Venetian glassmakers; German beer bottle manufacturers; a woman welder in a gas cooker factory; Scandinavian furniture factory; a Lancashire textile factory showing the hand blocking technique for printing fabric; the Swansea steel plant and the Abbey Works in Wales. It explains also the highly advanced techniques and skills in the area of crafts developed in Europe.

Genre
Documentary

Credits
Production Country:
Film Production Company: Wessex Film Productions, Ltd., London
Commissioning Institution: Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA)

Director: Diane Pine
Producer: Ian Dalrymple
Script: Unknown
Cinematography: Ian Wooldridge
Film Editing: Unknown
Music: Unknown
Commentator: Unknown

Technical Information
Original Film Format: 16 mm
Duration: 18 minutes
Colour: Colour

Marshall Plan, Economic Cooperation Administration, Industrial Production, European Heritage

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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.