| FRONT PAGE MEN famines in India. Post-War Famine Relief Effort | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 50 |
| Catalog #: | 312340 | |
| Clip Number: | 312340-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 46/35 | |
| Timecode: | 10:05:53 - 10:07:47 | |
| Location: | India and United States of America | |
| Year Shot: | 1946 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DISASTERS: Famine INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Foreign Aid, Food PERSONALITIES: LaGuardia, Fiorello | |
| Description: | Same as catalog # 182290 FRONT PAGE MEN famines in India. India and United States of America (USA). C/U of English newspapers announcing food cuts. "YOUR LOAF WILL BE SMALLER" Story covers cutbacks in British bread ration to supply grain to millions that are in famine. Sequence of starving people. Various shots of emaciated bodies of starving Indians. Hunger. Emaciated Indian woman begging for food. Kids/beggars in street picking up scraps, etc. Indian children eating food scraps from the pavement. C/U of newspapers announcing Indian famine deaths. Bulletins about starvation in the far east: "10 Deaths On Friday In Different Hospitals", followed by 2 shots of starving children. Various C/Us of skeletal Indian adults and children lying on their backs, barely breathing. Various shots of grain being loaded into ships through conveyor pipes. Bulk grain pouring into hold of ship; hands scooping up the kernels. Grain tickling through hands. C/U of Clinton Anderson, American Secretary of Agriculture. C/U of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York giving passionate speech. He pleads with US farmers to release hoarded wheat stocks for the starving people of Europe and Asia. Speaking for US farmers to release hoarded wheat stocks for the starving people of Europe and Asia. Urgent passionate appeal. He lists countries in desperate need of food: "Poland, Austria, Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy, Albania, China ... will be without bread in a few days unless we rush boatloads of wheat to those countries. We have the boats; we're ready; we need the wheat. I appeal desperately to the American farmer: bring in the wheat, bring it in now, bring it in fast! People are dying, please help." etc. Famine, War. | |
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