The Friendship Train

1948
14m

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueTwo years after the end of World War II, many people in France and Italy were still ill-fed. Washington newspaper columnist Drew Pearson decided to launch a program that would help feed thos... Tout lireTwo years after the end of World War II, many people in France and Italy were still ill-fed. Washington newspaper columnist Drew Pearson decided to launch a program that would help feed those still hungry in these countries and other places in western Europe. It would not be a go... Tout lireTwo years after the end of World War II, many people in France and Italy were still ill-fed. Washington newspaper columnist Drew Pearson decided to launch a program that would help feed those still hungry in these countries and other places in western Europe. It would not be a government program like the Marshall Plan. Rather, it would be a people-to-people effort, wi... Tout lire

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[first lines]
Title Card: [opening title card] This is a glimpse into the very heart of America - a record of what American men, women and children did in true friendship to give hope and strength to the famine-driven peoples of Europe. No pleas, no urging, no promptings rallied these people to meet the cry of need. United by the common bond of human sympathy they responded with a mighty volume of food and a priceless cargo of good will. This is in thanks to the hundreds and thousands and millions who joined to make possible the Friendship Train - to the Association of American Railroads, to the steamship lines, to labor and management, to agriculture, to the press, radio, motion picture industry and all others - to all who gave to the free people of France, whose children gave us our Statue of Liberty, and to the free people of Italy, whose Columbus found our shores.
Title Card: [signed] Harry M. Warner, National Chairman, American Friendship Food Train Committee.

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All credited cast members are identified by the narrator.

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Wings Over the Navy
(uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Played during the first New York City segment

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5/10

Heartfelt

This newsreel-cum-publicity short covers the Friendship Train, which started in Los Angeles, and by the time it was emptied in New York City, so its contents could be shipped to the hungry peoples of western Europe, had some immense amount of basic foodstuffs..... they seem to have stopped counting in Iowa, with more than a hundred boxcars.

Harry M. Warner, CEO of Warner Brothers, was in charge of the effort. Unsurprisingly, this is a Warner Brothers short subject.