SHOPPING AND SHOPS

 

The following items from the Collection are available immediately on master    

                                                                                                                                                                                              

 

 

Listed by Country alphabetically, and chronologically within countries

Languages listed only if not in English

 

BELGIUM

220545          05:50:33 - 06:00:48            1950s SD        B/W    Belgium           French & Flemish       The Atlantic Community -  Introducing Belgium - Part One
Including:        Brussels Grande place;  flower market and shops on square.  Mannekin Piss.  Street names in both French and Flemish.  Street scenes and caf terraces.  Traffic and trams; people past newspaper kiosk;  cigar vendor?  fruit stand?   Crowd in shopping street. 

 

 

BYELORUSSIA (?)

LN 400-250  04:08:05 - 04:14:07            1941   SD        B/W    Byelorussia ?; Russia ? / USSR        German        
Including:        04:09:18  Villagers buying food in wrecked store.  Red Army banner. 

 

CHINA

220708          05:14:51 - 05:27:22            1937   SIL       B/W    China  Glimpses of Modern China - Reel 2
Including:     05:21:22 - Fashion - Interior department store - shoppers using escalator.  Young woman buying jumper and young girl with baby doll.  Young women sampling makeup. 
05:22:21 Work place - Interior textile factory, women at machines.  Food processing ? production line.  Women work at desks in office.  Young women leave building carrying flags.

CUBA
220703          22:13:47 - 22:24:21            1930s Si         B/W    Cuba                [Havana Street Scenes] inc.
Man selling barracuda fish on bridge in Cuba as cars past.  LS of bridge & traffic w/ city behind. People in park feeding ducks.  Large buildings in Havana.  Vendors in market w/ stalls, horses & wagons. People shopping.  Live chickens.  2-stack liner leaving harbour past light house & Morro Castle.  High angle street scene of Capitol & other government buildings.  Windy day w/ canvas over vendors.  Market activity.  Storm & waves against seawall.  Traffic down large streets. Ornate church architecture.  w/ statues.  Street scenes in old part.  Capitol building.  Government buildings.  Narrow street w/ trolley.  Palm lined broad mall.  Golfers on course w/ caddies.  churches & old architecture.  Cuban army marching into fort.  Horses & jockeys in front of grandstand at race track.

 

 

EGYPT

220476          17:05:01 - 17:05:33            1943   SD        B/W    Egypt               Christmas Shopping In Cairo
Allied soldiers in souk (market).  Bargaining with Arab shopkeepers over carpet and souvenirs.  Soldiers look at silk stockings in shop window and buy pair.  GIs into carriage with parcels.

 

 

ENGLAND + UK

LN 505-029  11:00:49 - 11:11:27            1949   SD        B/W    England            English Children  (Life In The City)
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.
Including:        11:01:14  Boys shooting marbles in school yard as girls jumping rope, dancing; going back inside.  Boys wearing ties and coats.  Tommy & class drawing; outside watching older brother Frank playing cricket batting and scoring runs.  Tommy & others wearing school caps.
11:03:20  His sister and mother come out of corner grocery store; shopping, interior buying apples and paying with shilling, six-pence & pennies.  Walking home w/ along old city wall of York, England and traffic, railroad and rooftops beyond.  Pan over Cathedral York Minster.  Father meets boys in railyard as he is engineer or engine driver.  11:04:5?  Backyard & girl picking flowers in yard or garden.  Mother is buttering bread for tea, heats water over fire and pours over tea leaves in pot.  Family sits down to cold meat, tomatoes, bread and butter and jam and cake.  Clock 6:00.  Frank turns on radio sitting on piano.

 

220466          02:45:25 - 02:55:17            1954   Sd        B/W    England            You in Great Britain Reel One Reel 1 Pt 1
Including:        Sign Get Your Ration Books Here queue of women, policeman checking ration books. Interiors, clerks at desk issuing books.  Shopping after war, queue outside butchers. Inside shop, cash register, housewives shopping. 

 

221106          14:23:52 - 14:34:18            1954   SIL       B/W    England            England Ten Years Later  [Reel 3 of 7]
Film shows an American airman and an Englishman on tour of some of the most bombed areas in England ten years after the last bombing of the blitz of London.
Including:        Slate 31Aug54  Scenes in Harlow New Town, Essex:  Shopping precinct - women queue outside store.  School buildings under construction.  Street scenes near shops - women w/ children; CU sign New Town Pets; INT kids w/ kitten in pet store; hardware store window display; Tartan Bag Shop; Gas Service showroom; mothers w/ prams outside Electricity Service Centre.

 

220642          03:03:08 - 03:13:49            1940   SIL       B/W    England      Bomb Damage in London, Coventry and South Eastern Towns
Damaged building  - inns of Court and Middle Temple.  Damaged statues.  Exterior bomb damaged buildings.
Including:        Housewives walking along street past barrier with sign Traffic for Shops only.  Sign Sainsburys are open.  Bombed out houses.  Men on roof of United Dairies building.  Fishmonger selling to women  from table in front of bombed out shop.

 

220585          12:29:20 - 12:30:10            1950s ?          Sd        B/W    England                        Post WWII - England - Rationing on Clothing Ends
Women shopping; trying on clothes.  Street scenes of shop windows & clothing. Tickets removed from window displays re coupons. Sign placed in windows saying you can now purchase all sheets and towels coupon free.  Narration which is government appeal not to over buy and to think of the export drive -  talks about price controls & need not to raise prices now that coupons not required.  Woman tears up coupons now that rationing is off.

 

220610          08:11:29 - 08:23:03            1950   Sd        b/w     England Scotland USA              Marshall Plan At Work In Great Britain
Including:       
08:14:03 Construction / building work in post war London - bricklayers.   Blocks of council flats.   Interior grocery shop / store -  woman buying food - weighing bacon on scales - weighing butter - some food still on ration.  Cheese weighed.   Exterior Liptons grocery shop.  Housewife having ration book marked.  Housewife leaves with her shopping.
08:15:38 Flashback to Jarrow in 1930s - closed factories.  Depression, men on street corners - closed shops. 08:16:01 Summer 1950 - same street, shops open and prospering. 

And:     08:18:33 Export shops for tourists - tax free. Man being shown suiting material, socks and other mens clothes.  Wife trying jumper.
Part  2
And:   08:20:50 USA -  shops in America selling British goods.  Traffic on roads.  5th Avenue shops.   Woman shopping in British Tweed store.  British furniture and Churchs shoe shop in New York.
08:21:34 UK - Food imports - unloading meat/carcasses at docks. Port of London.

 

220466          02:55:18 - 03:03:36            1954   Sd        B/W    England & USA    You in Great Britain Reel One Reel 1 Pt 2
Including:        03:00:04  US servicemen window shopping in department store - interior store, Americans making purchase watched by British shoppers - this sequence is advising Americans not to show off their  relative wealth when stationed in UK.  American in sitting room of family house having tea ( American serviceman is being portrayed by Larry Hagman )

 

LN 505-087  18:02:39 - 18:14:18            1960s             SD        COL      England; Scotland; Wales; Northern Ireland United Kingdom [Part 1 of 2]
Bailey Films
Including:        18:08:04  Women shopping for groceries - VO when a housewife goes shopping she buys almost as much foreign food as that produced by her own country - zoom in on assistant at cash register - CUs imported food - Danish Lurpack Butter - Danepak Bacon.  But how does the country pay for it all? 

 

FRANCE

220882          19:08:41 - 19:11:03            1936   SD        B/W    France French Le Mouvement de Grve
1936 French general strike
Including:        Closed shops in street incl. petrol station, Felix Potin grocery - queue outside grocery shop.  Shoe factory with idle machine and workers nearby.  Exterior department stores Galeries Lafayette, Le Printemps, La Samaritaine. 

 

220603          11:45:46 - 11:47:52            1966   Sd        b/w     France             NATO Farewell ? Sweeping Changes Would Mark Exit
American military base in France HQ US Army Communications. MP on point duty.  Relief map showing NATO bases which President de Gaulle has demanded leave France by 1967. AVs US bases. Aircraft approaching runway. Interior air traffic control tower.  USAF trucks at Chateauroux air base - tracking shot base - French workers leaving work. American soldiers with French wives and children. Shopping Centre - department store.  Military broadcasting - radio. Street parade - marching band.  American flag lowered


GERMANY

221108          17:24:27 - 17:35:46            1946   SIL       B/W    Germany                      [German Food Story - Berlin]
Including:        17:30:56  Munich No.238  Market place on Preuzlauer Allee in the Preuzlauer-Berg district of East Berlin, Russian Sector - fruit & vegetable stalls set up - CUs strawberries, cherries.  Slate 05Jun.  Animal carcasses unloaded from truck into warehouse.  Slate 04Jun.  Street scenes - women queuing for food outside Fein-Backerei store.

221108          17:35:57 - 17:45:42            1946   SIL       B/W    Germany                      [German Food Story - Frankfurt & Vicinity]
Munich No.376  Small crowd of men & women outside store - queuing for food?  Little kids on pavement.  Slate - Wiesbaden 14Aug.  Tiny kids in street - look at camera.  Slate 08Aug46.  INT abattoir - animal carcasses on hooks being cut up.  Street scenes - two policemen - pedestrians & traffic.
17:39:20  Very high views across city from mountainside - Frankfurt ?  Kids playing in street - dance in ring around little girl.  Slate 16Aug46.  INT workshop - auto parts / components in production.
17:42:14  Crying baby examined by doctor - vars marks / lesions on skin.  Little girl w/ burns or skin disease to arms.  CU girl w/ severely infected hands.  Very skinny boy & girl pose for camera on stool - bones showing.  CUs malnourished [?] babies.  Slate 17Aug46  Kids in street w/ drawn faces.  Parents in park pushing pram.  LS woman smoking on grass next to pram.  CU money changing hands.  Man tries to take money from another man across gate, gets taken away by official. 
17:44:37  Top shots displaced man & woman looking for things to salvage in junkyard.  Truck empties load into landfill.  Very dirty man eats from metal container while girl collects junk in bag.

220754          17:43:59 - 17:54:28            1950s - 1962           SD        B/W    Germany                      Berlin - Test For Freedom
Life in a divided Berlin
Including:        Little America in West Berlin - American army community has its own schools and kindergarten. Children in school.  American shopping centre.  Radio dial. Radio broadcast - announcer re American Music Hall from Berlin. American teenagers jiving - cheerleaders.

220728          09:53:29 - 10:02:29            1952   SIL       B/W    Germany                      Reconstruction of Berlin
Including:        HSs, looking in both directions on Schloss Str, business street in the US zone.  LS, modern apartment building on Innsbrucker Platz, cyclists move past in foreground.  LSs, of Air Lift Memorial and Tempelhof Air Base building. Shots of building on Meringdam Str. VS, shoppers on the Kurfurstendamm Str in the British zone; a sidewalk display box. Hotel, department store in the US zone.  Two women inspect window of a jewelry store, they enter.  Window of a radio shop.  Partially reconstructed building housing Berliner Bank on Kurfurstendam Str. VS, sidewalk stands selling fruit, cosmetics and housewares against background of bombed building.  MS, fruit stand.  A cyclist and his girl read amusement ads on circular billboard; walk away.


LN 501-482  09:29:35 - 09:37:09            1955   SIL       B/W    Germany                      Berlin, Germany  [Reel 3 of 8]
02Sep55  People boarding street cars & buses; vehicles driving off.  People at outdoor food stall.  German department stores.  Large control building with flags in front.  German apartment buildings constructed in 1954-55 under the Marshall Plan.  Berlin Area Headquarters main gate.  MS sign on empty highway For the Next Two Miles You Will Be In The Soviet Zone - Do Not Stop - petrol tanker past sign. 

LN 501-482  09:48:58 - 09:57:09            1955   SIL       B/W    Germany                      Berlin, Germany  [Reel 6 of 8]
31Aug55  EXT Columbia House Officers Club; people boarding buses & buses leaving.  US Headquarters in Berlin - Including:  LS US Army shopping center; MS people entering & leaving shopping center.

 

220875          08:18:32 - 08:20:24            1948   SD        B/W    Germany ?      German            European Housewives
Young woman asleep in bed, alarm clock rings.  Hands buttering bread.  Interior bakery, bread on conveyor.
08:18:52 Street market, intercut sequence of housewives shopping with men working and running, hod carrier, woman carrying shopping bags.  Man keeping accounts, woman doing same. 

 

HOLLAND / NETHERLANDS

220858          03:08:56 - 03:16:04            1938   Si         b/w     Holland  (Netherlands)                       [Pre-WWII - Jewish Refugees in Amsterdam]
Including:        Ext. of open air market, men buying & selling clothes, parts, etc.  Outdoor stall & women.  Ext. of Kosher market, butcher hanging up meet.  Women shopping for large goose.  (out of focus).  Wrap it up & take with.

 

 

INDIA

220831          20:07:20 - 20:10:00            1940s SD        B/W    India                US Troops in India!
Street scenes w/ American soldiers. Shopping for souvenirs; snake charmer.

 

 

INDONESIA

LN 505-028  10:35:34 - 10:44:38            1959   SIL       COL      Indonesia         Indonesia: New Nation of Asia [Part 1 of 2]
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Including:        10:42:15  Rural villages and scenic shots of coastline.  Farmer and family eating on mat outdoors.  Wife sweeping dirt, shopping in market and carrying load on head.  Weaving cloth for family outdoors.  Farmers in fields of rice.  Planting seedlings in paddies.  Harvesting stalks & laying out to dry.

 

JAPAN

220913          17:11:20 - 17:20:54            1938   si         B/W    Japan               Captured Japanese Film - The Nation on the March
Including:        Savings bond drive in 1938 following the Marco-Polo bridge incident which started the war between the Japanese and the Chinese.
Window display of shoes for sale - street scenes, girls wearing kimonos - shopping for jewellery, rings.  Japanese flag - shots to show wartime austerity - repaired shoes - trousers being mended.

221111          23:00:18 - 23:06:07            1946   SIL       B/W    Japan               [Soldier Activities In Tokyo]
Slate 22Aug46  American MPs direct traffic on streets of Ginza district - streetcar past camera in CU - aerial view crossroads w/ traffic & pedestrians, MPs visible.  Soldier looks at camera on market stall; other GIs wandering through market.  CU MP in sunglasses directing traffic, blows whistle; Japanese policeman does same.  Rear shot policeman on boxes directing traffic.
23:03:14  GI has boots polished by Japanese man at sidewalk shoe-shine stop.  GIs examine goods in market.  Slate 23Aug46.  CU shop window w/ sign 'Member of the League of Souvenir Shops In Tokyo - English Spoken'.  More shots GIs in market & at shoe shine stop.  Japanese cobbler.
23:04:44  High shot across busy street from rooftop.  Japanese market traders selling vars goods inc. toys, wooden sandals, jewellery, hand-painted calendars?; GIs past.  Very good quality.
Postwar Japan.  US Occupation.  Street Scenes.  Shopping.

 

221111          23:06:28 - 23:13:25            1946   SIL       B/W    Japan               [Soldier Activities In Tokyo]
Slate 29Aug46  American GIs buying gifts inside store in Ginza district.  INT GIs file into unid. building & up staircase; EXT queue of GIs inc. Blacks at one door, US military wives [?] exit from another.  GIs out of building w/ packages.
23:08:43  CU toy stall w/ sign 'Can You Open This Box? Please Try!' - stallholder demonstrates toy.  CUs GIs entering building w/ signs 2nd Floor Queue Starts Here.  Soldiers eating sweets? from bags.  High shots across street showing traffic & pedestrians outside department store Tokyo P.X.?
23:10:14  CU GI handing money to Japanese jewellery store clerk; top shot military pin badges.  CUs market stalls selling rubber inner tubes for bicycles, hardware, pipes, toys, bags.  GIs & Japanese civilians milling around market.
23:12:18  Slate 30Aug46  Civilians & GIs past stores in Ginza, some w/ parasols.  Low angle shot peoples' legs as they walk along crowded sidewalk - some civilians wearing westernised clothes & footwear, other in traditional wooden sandals etc.  LA shot civilians towards camera.  Very good quality.
Postwar Japan.  US Occupation.  Street Scenes.  Shopping.

 

221111          23:40:41 - 23:46:24            1947   SIL       B/W    Japan               [Buying Clothes, Tokyo & Vicinity]
Aug47  High shot street market w/ temples? in BG.  Japanese woman looks at clothes for sale on covered stall, vendor sits cross-legged & wraps her purchase.  Patterned kimonos hanging from stall; female vendors.  Men buy clothes.  Mother w/ young daughter points to tiny kimono - vendor puts it on little girl.  EXT store w/ signs in Japanese & English, display of hats in window.  Women look at baby clothes & buy hats in store.  INT woman buying fabric at counter of department store? - female clerk wraps fabric & takes money.  Very good quality.
Postwar Japan.  Shopping.

 

221111          23:46:47 - 23:54:46            1947   SIL       B/W    Japan               [Buying Food, Tokyo]
Slate 13Aug47.  Women stand at fruit & vegetable stall in street; CUs produce on sale - vendor weighs huge pumpkin [?] - woman in kimono pays for vegetables.  High shot group of women w/ westernised clothes & hairstyles talk to vegetable seller.  Watermelon cut in half.  CU woman w/ baby on back looks at fruit.  High shot crowd of Japanese people queue to buy potatoes scooped from huge pile & weighed.  Woman w/ parasol buys vegetables at covered stall.  Women buy food at store w/ open window displays.  CU trays of produce.  Very good quality.
Postwar Japan.  Shopping.  1940s Hair Fashions.

 

220347          11:08:55 - 11:16:40            1980s SD        COL      Japan               [Air Force Now - Japan, traditional views and Tokyo shots]
Re air base in Japan
Including:        Street shots with officer and Japanese wife shopping -  street signs, vegetable shop, fish shop, restaurant exterior, stalls.
11:11:45 Night streets with neon lights.  Elaborate dance show in night club. Inside shop.
 

220410          01:11:52 - 01:20:16            1945 - 1946 Si         col       Japan               Nagasaki Daily Life - Reel 2 12Nov1945
Including:        01:16:51  MS Interior of Japanese department store showing a modern counter and a modern Japanese female purchasing some articles.   Note the show cases are bare due to the shortage off supplies and material Two customers in typical Japanese dress stand at counter talking to saleslady, while in the foreground a young Japanese girl in modern, western street clothes walks past camera. scene.  Special department set up at the opposite end of the store for the exclusive use of the occupation forces.  Many hard to get items are for sale, such as Jade and Ivory carvings, lacquered boxes and trays.  American Naval Officer shopping in  background soldiers, sailors, and marines walk about looking at display. Pretty saleslady in Western clothes displaying lacquered saucers and trays.
01:19:03 Display counter in a book store in Nagasaki which has assorted literature, such as pamphlets, small Japanese-English dictionaries, calendars, pictures, and other items.  Young Japanese girl in typical Japanese clothes is shown standing alongside a display counter looking over some pictures.  A studious Japanese male is examining some books which are on the shelves.  Empty shelves.  CU Various types of books on shelves.

 

220410          01:49:37 - 02:02:19            1945 / 1946 Si         col       Japan               Japanese People Street Scenes and Shops 29Dec45 - 15May46
Tokyo street market -  Peddler sells his wares on sidewalk along Jinga Way in Tokyo. Customer looking over some aluminium kettles. MS Street scene showing people walking on sidewalk. Assorted type of Japanese, male, female, as well as children, pedestrians.
Beppu: Miscellaneous scenes along a side street in Beppu showing small shops and pedestrians. A small store which sells wicker baskets. Long shot of street.
Tokyo: MLS Japanese children play on bomb site in the ruins of a bath house near a group of miner's houses in the Higashi Misome Mine area, picking up pieces of tile which they have loosened with a hammer and iron bar. CU Two children's hands, the hammer and tile. CU Two different boys in a destroyed bath tub chiselling tile. MS Two boys and girls searching the debris of the bath house.
01:52:12 Osaka: MS CU A series of shots showing Japanese women, men and children scraping up corn kernels off the road, just outside the city limits, which have spilled there from a passing truck.
Kyoto: A series of street scenes on a narrow street in Kyoto. The buildings are undamaged and the people are doing their shopping as usual. Several shots of crowds of people walking along street in outskirts of Kyoto. Parade of some sort - man with costume ?
01:54:54 Osaka: Various shots of people on the street in Osaka. In front of the station loading trams / buses and sitting around the station.
Tokyo: Various shots, Market street scenes. Selling fish - vegetables. Street kitchen, people eating out of bowls.  People waiting for trains and walking along the street. A series of shots of a large group of 3rd grade school children marching through the grounds of the Imperial Palace, stopping to pick flowers and rest.
Kobe: MS Japanese people passing through shop area showing narrow street and newly erected shops in temporary buildings.
Kyoto: Misc. shots in streets of Kyoto showing activities. Showing markets and amusement arcade such as our penny arcades. Misc. shots in the street of Kyoto showing street activities.

 

221080          02:00:11 - 02:08:03            1947   Si         B/W    Japan               Buying Food - Tokyo and Vicinity ( Project 11026 )
Shopping in street market - dried fish dealers stand - fishmonger selling fish - ration cards being stamped. Tray of smoked eels - eels being smoked. Japanese woman making purchase. Various shoppers and street scenes.  Fishmonger filleting eel. Trays of prepared food on stands. Food ladled into bowl. Tray of dried fish

 

221080          02:08:26 - 02:18:01            1947   Si         B/W    Japan               Xmas Rush - Tokyo.
Two GIs enter post office APO 500 carrying parcels.  Packages awaiting shipment to various parts of US. WAC buys stamps.  Various packages being handed in.  Clerks weighing package.  Interior post room.
Exterior two soldiers looking at toys on a Ginza street market stand.  Sign Xmas sale.  Two GIs shopping for jewellery off street market pearls - Father Christmas model - soldier with Santa Claus mask.  Japanese woman with baby on back.  Interior shop / department store, one holds silk kimono.  Officer in charge PX giving instructions to soldier filling out customs forms.
02:14:54  Exterior Tokyo PX , GIs and dependants in line waiting for store to open.  Sacks of mail loaded onto truck from post office doorway.

 

221080          02:29:39 - 02:36:19            1947   Si         B/W    Japan               Price Control in Japan ( Project 11026 )
1st 2nd and 3rd class price list papers.  Student looking at papers in his assigned room.  Exterior, dishes on display in front of shop / street market.  Eggs with signs 1600 and 1700 yen.  Japanese woman seen at counter of grocery store. Sign on window - notices pasted on windows giving description of available goods. Meat on counter. Kimonos hanging on racks in shop.  Shoe store - sandals and wooden shoes / clogs. Kimono on rack - European type shoes.  Exterior fruit and vegetable displayed in front of shop.  Food displayed in restaurant.  Wooden shoes. 

 

 

JORDAN

LN 505-009  10:12:51 - 10:27:53            1954   SD        COL      Jordan             Arabian Children
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sahab, Jordan mud village

Including:        10:21:51  People in streets of village, shopping and boys in shop buying sugar candy.  Then look into flour mill where wheat is being ground, powered by large engine.

 

 

PHILIPPINES

220797          17:20:10 - 17:30:41            1939   SIL       B/W    Philippines                 [Philippines shopping - stock market - business]
Oct-Dec39
Filipino and American customers at Heacocks department store, Manila -  clothes, china, sports section, bargain counter. Filipino girls at counter.
17:22:19  Manila stock exchange floor with traders in white shirts bidding and selling.  Traders on phone.   Sugar board, brokers buying and selling
American Chamber of Commerce board meeting with Gaches (president) at head of table - men in white suits smoking cigars - female secretary . 
Meeting at Manila Rotary Club - Manila Hotel - American and Filipino businessmen present.  Speakers Mr Romulo (Filipino) and Mr Ned Hall and members listening.  Members getting Rotary badges.
1940: National City Bank - Filipino employees work coin counting machine.  Tabulating cheques.  People queuing at bank teller window. Filipinos writing cheques.

 

RUSSIA / USSR

220754          17:10:08 - 17:18:00            1947   SIL       B/W    Russia             UNRRA Supplies - Odessa
Including:        17:11:41 Busy Kiev street with pedestrians - top shot snowy landscape and bomb damaged buildings.  Interior food store - women shoppers - sausage / salami weighed - scales - bread weighed - rations stamps? Food display - cod fillet.  Display of Cris-Bix - advertising Hungry? Nibble Something Flavourful . Pedestrians on street.  Small industry - Shop sign - interior clothing factory - women sewing with male overseer.  Cramped conditions / sweat shop.  Fur collar attached to coat.  Sign in Russian.  Cutting room - leather? Cobblers making shoes.  Shoes inspected.
17:15:50 People on street wrapped up in cold.  Exterior shop / store - interior, shoppers buy cloth, young boy getting new shoes.

220723          03:10:15 - 03:15:03            1948 ?           SD        B/W    Russia  USSR   Russian                       Novosti Dnia - Russian Department Store
16Oct48? Interior large empty shop or department store, preparing for first day of cash purchases and end of food rationing.  CU bread; enormous heaps of bagels.  Vendors at counters.  CU meat. CU pigs' heads; sweets. Tobacco  stand. Sausages and hams; tins; cocoa; luxurious displays; fruit; chocolate; cakes;
03:11:42  Empty fabric shop with sales people folding material, perparing for the end of rationing.  CUs rolls of fabric.  Shoes display window.  Salesgirl sets date.
03:12:48  Department store with shoppers - luxurious - buying with cash begins.  Clothing: Woman looks at coat.  Customers in staircases.  Trying on dresses.  CUs shoes with price tags.  Women looking at shoes; trying on shoes. Salesman displays fabric.  Women buy hats.  Kitchenware and samovars.  Watches and clocks.  Handicrafts. Dolls.
Postwar Russia / USSR.  Consumerism.  Shopping. Garment.

 

221087          14:01:10 - 14:03:24            1956 c            SD        B/W    Russia / USSR Russian           [Moscow Street Scenes - Shopping at GUM]
Including:        14:01:59  INT grand GUM department store w/ glass roof - several floors - women buying ceramics, jewellery.  New refridgerator unloaded from truck, carried into modern apartment building.  INT family unpacking in new apartment; workers? toasting.  People looking at books on street stall.  Happy workers finishing shift.  INT waitresses laying tables in luxurious restaurant.  Consumer goods at GUM department store - shoes on carousel - women modelling fashions for female customers. 

 

SINGAPORE

220442          09:47:48 - 09:49:02            1946   Sd        B/W    Singapore                    Singapore Today - Nice shots Singapore includes Government buildings  - HQ SEAC - Junks - washing hanging from windows. Street scenes. Children eating at open air cafe. European women in rickshaws. Market stall with bananas. Two A.T.S. girls shopping. Locals painting paper lanterns - ATS girls buying underwear and shoes. Handbags and fabric. Top shot Singapore
 

 

SOUTH AMERICA

220603          12:08:30 - 12:19:30            1936 ?           Sd        b/w     South America Curacao Colombia Panama Southward To The Sun Reel 3 - Tourists
Cruise ship arrives at Curacao - unique pontoon bridge swings across to allow liner to enter harbour / canal. Shots of town from ship. Bridge back into position and people crossing - pedestrians - traffic. Native women carrying packages on heads. Street scenes, shopping ( duty free ) perfume - clothing - buildings - architecture - hotel.  Harbour scenes - sailing vessels
12:12:55 Columbia - Cartagena - Top shot of town from castle / fort.  Street scenes. House of Inquisition used for torture during the Spanish Inquisition.  Woman washing clothes in tub. Narow streets with buildings which have protruding balconies.  Church of San Pedro Claver - tomb of patron saint.
12:15:48 Panama Canal and Canal Zone - By train from the Atlantic Terminus of the Canal.  Tracking shots shops - palm tree lined street - Gatun Lake - through Gaillard Cut or Culebra Cut. Work continues on canal - mud being washed into river for removal by dredging.  Shots from ship as passing through canal.
12:17:14 Miraflores - one of the giant locks of the canal.  Lock gates open - ship is pulled by train into lock and out again.
12:18:00 Old Panama - Tower of the church ransacked and destroyed by Henry Morgan the pirate. panama City - street scenes, traffic. Golden Altar inside church. Canal Zone Administration building on Balboa Heights.

 

SPAIN

220853          16:37:04 - 16:46:49            1956c SIL       B/W    Spain               Selected Scenes On Spain
Including:        People enter modern supermarket, pick up wicker baskets and walk through aisles selecting food - shopping. CUs, various food items on shelves.  Women at check-out counter having food tabulated.

 

SWEDEN

LN 505-079  09:20:33 - 09:33:05            1955   SD        B/W    Sweden                        Swedish Farming Story (1955) by Hjordis Kittel Parker.  Dist. by Bailey Films
Including:        09:23:14  Mrs. Lindstrom leaves on bicycle for marketing.  Traffic w/ trolleys, cars, pedestrians.  Consumer cooperative store.  Windows of bakery.  Outdoor market in front of Concert House and vendor stalls.  Flowers in buckets.  Excursion boat in harbor and Kings Palace, Town Hall.  Narrow streets in Old Town. 
09:24:5?  Parks, people walking, cafe in park.

LN 505-083  13:32:17 - 13:42:30            1958   SD        B/W    Sweden                        Life In A Fishing Village  [Sweden]
Coronet Instructional Films
Coastal village of Provarna [?]

Including:        13:39:20  Mother Larsson grocery shopping - buys bread.  Kids out of school - run down to harbour to greet returning fishermen - catch unloaded into warehouse or packed into barrels w/ salt.  Larsson family in garden - father reads Goteborgs Posten newspaper - Nils reads book - mother mends clothes.  High shot fishing village.
Travelogues.  Scandinavia.  North Sea.  Education Methods.

 

LN 505-072  23:19:52 - 23:33:13            1945   SD        B/W    Sweden; Norway ?      Swedish [brief]
English            Sweden
March of Time Forum Edition
Including:        Postwar Stockholm street scenes at night - neon lights - pedestrians.  VO re Sweden in WWII; INT newspaper office, journalist talking in Swedish on telephone to Berlin correspondent who holds phone up so he can hear noise of bombing.  Burning buildings - bombers flying over - bombs away.  Printing presses - VO re one of only free presses w/ access to Germany.  Daytime street scenes w/ VO re wartime neutrality - trolley cars, traffic, pedestrians, shops, sidewalk cafe.  Kids in swimming pool.  Crowded beach.  King Gustaf V playing tennis & signing autographs.  Air raid shelters on street - people on bicycles due to gasoline shortage.  Man fills up car modified w/ charcoal burner.  Ration stamps exchanged at store & used in restaurant.
And:                 23:30:01 Fishing industry - boat unloaded - women selling fish at market.  Outdoor market in town square. 

 

 

UKRAINE

LN 400-249  01:33:13 - 01:45:39            1943 & 1930s           SD        B/W    Ukraine                       Atrocities Of The Gestapo  [Reel 1]
Including:        stock shots German town 1930s street scenes w/ women shopping in market, possibly Bavaria.
 

 

USA

220658          02:00:00 - 02:05:27            1900s SIL       B/W    USA                  [New Orleans Stock Shots - Early 1900s]
Harbour and dock scenes - steam ships - Cansfjord unloading at dock.
02:02:02  Housing and shops; street scenes.
02:02:30  Pleasure gardens - boating lake and swans. 
02:03:20  Strange game played with sticks by boys in park - sort of hockey.  Good street scenes in poor area - children playing in yard - trams.  Busy shopping area - well dressed pedestrians.

221078          12:02:42 - 12:04:54            1903   Si         B/W    USA                  New York City Ghetto Fish Market
Edison
From elevated position pans along crowded New York street w/ rows of pushcarts and street vendors - umbrellas w/ All Cars Transfer [at?] Bloomingdales - women shopping w/ baskets.
12:04:41  Man notices camera & gestures crossly?
1900s - US.  Daily Life.

220411          01:41:35 - 01:50:15            1918 & 1945 Sd        B/W    USA                  Story With Two Endings
Including:        01:43:08 1920 Car factory - stock market - crowds of women in hats into department store.  Shopping for clothes - crowds like sale scrum.  Brief shots agriculture and industry.  Prices go up in shops.  Warehouse and factory.  Warehouses overstocked with goods.  Closed factories - unemployment - depression.  Grocery shop closes down.  Rural scene - farmer with equipment - notice Sheriff's Sale - bankruptcy.  Deserted railyards.  Coal mine closed - sign No Men wanted.  Flashback end WWI and montage shots to show economic problems after war.
01:45:37 WWII Military marching - - brief shots  - Crowds of men going to work in factory  - shoppers in department store - factory with smoking chimneys - combine harvester - Beach and fairground scenes - happy people.  Split screen showing economic disaster following WWI and what hopefully will happen after WWII
01:46:23 Mr Charles Trowbridge - economist ? - speaks to camera re importance of stable prices after the war.  Graphic shows cost of living.  Continues speaking over brief shot of woman in butchers shop.  Montage people enjoying themselves - beach - kids playground - tennis - cinema.  Queue for War Bonds - men going to work - Woman shopping in small self service grocery store- ration book.  Military marching. Montage of 20s depression and contemporary wealth.

 

220646          09:32:38 - 09:34:03            1932   SD        B/W    USA                  Ghetto in Beehive of Activity on Eve of Passover Fete
Lower East Side Jewish area pushcart vendors & shopping.  Woman cleaning fish.  Men out of wine shop.  Lined up outside matza (matso) bakery. MCU of Jewish faces as men and women carry away cartons.

 

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