Motion Picture MP72-58
Answer to Stalin – March of Time
Administrative Information
Original Format(s)
Motion Picture
Footage
330 feet
342 feet
Running Time
9 minutes 10 seconds
9 minutes 30 seconds
Film Gauge
16mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
20th Century Fox
Restrictions
Restricted
Description
A "March of Time" film, about Communist expansion and the efforts of the Economic Cooperation Administration in fighting this expansion.
Date(s)
1949
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Moving Image Type
Motion Picture
Shot List
- Reel 1
0:30 | Family talking about Russians and listening to others. | |
2:00 | Russian leaders and soldiers in Red Square. | |
2:30 | Map of Russian expansion. | |
3:00 | North Korea scenes. | |
3:30 | South Korea scenes. | |
3:50 | China scenes. | |
4:20 | South East Asia scenes. | |
5:00 | Middle East scenes. | |
5:45 | Greece scenes. | |
6:00 | Poland scenes. | |
6:40 | Czechoslovakia scenes. | |
7:00 | Danube countries. | |
7:40 | East Germany and airlift. | |
8:15 | Europe scenes. | |
8:40 | French strikers. |
- Reel 2
0:00 | Security Council meeting (briefly Warren Austin shown). | |
0:45 | Churchill talks on Atomic bomb to a meeting. | |
1:30 | Citizens talking about bombing enemy. | |
2:00 | B-35 plant and Army Troops. | |
2:20 | Truman and George C. Marshall in Oval Office. | |
2:40 | Paul Hoffman and Economic Cooperation Administration. scenes (Averell Harriman shown) in Paris. | |
4:00 | French scenes. | |
4:45 | Italy scenes. | |
5:00 | West Germany scenes. | |
5:30 | England scenes. | |
6:45 | Hoffman speaks to ECA staff in United States. | |
7:30 | Chinese ECA efforts. | |
8:45 | Inaugural scenes, January 1949. | |
9:05 | U.S. Industrial scenes. |