Great Relief Scheme Started (1943)

Full title reads: “GREAT RELIEF SCHEME STARTED“. Various. Tented Arab camp. Various shots of food being given to hungry people. Establishing shot - front of White House, Washington. Various shots of the meeting outcome of which was the forming of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Association (UNNRA). American President Mr Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Soviet Representative Mr Gromyko and Britain's representative Lord Halifax are among the signatories. President Roosevelt speaks about the scheme. He tells of the success that will come with the United Nations helping the needy (natural sound). Various shots of the bags of flour being unloaded at Naples harbour. Bomb ruins in Naples. Various shots of the Italians at work repairing bridges and restoring communications. Pan across a field of millet. Close up shots of the heads of millet. Succession of shots showing the process of reaping and threshing the millet. It goes through a machines then into sacks. (Mute & Track Negs.) F