us-005578-irn564736
type: RecordSet
date: approximately 1945
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had identifier: 2
has or had some members with language: Silent
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn564736
scope and content: Title card, cut off: “no means clear: problems of immense complexity remain. The wounds go deeper than we often know.” Cars drive around Place Vendome. The Pantheon. “Paris! Spared as few other capitals in Europe. A feast of beauty to the eye, but a cloak that hides the sufferings of France.” Civilians on the streets. Bridges over the Seine. A map of France, highlighting Le Havre, Caen, Montauban, Toulouse, Perpignan, Marseilles, Paris. An incoming train. A sign for Montauban. A bridge over the Tarn River. “Quaker Relief in Montauban is typical of services in many French cities. Undernourished children get extra food at canteens or take food packages home.” A man ladles food into a pot. A line of people line up for food from the Quaker Relief. A sign for Rue de Jeu de Paume. Street scene in Montauban. “After careful checking, needy families are given used garments from Britain and America. Shoes, almost unprocurable, can be repaired in the Secours Quaker workshop.” Relief workers. “French, American and British Quakers work together in the committee known as Secours Quaker. Twenty Americans are engaged in this service including three who represent the Congregational Christian Committee.” CU of relief workers and French civilians. A man repairs shoes. “There’s a large Spanish colony in Montauban and a school has been set up for the children.” Sign for an Ecole Espagnole. Children enter the school. A teacher points to a map of Spain, highlighting Madrid. CU on the faces of various children. “Artificial limb factory where limbless people, many casualties of the Spanish war, can obtain limbs at small cost or free, and retrain for jobs.” A man wraps gauze around another man’s arm stump. He measures a prosthetic limb, then attaches it to the man’s shoulder. People with prosthetic limbs operating machinery and doing work. An incoming train. A sign for Toulouse. Streetcars and civilians. “To the Toulouse office come needy folk from many walks of life. They may need clothes, …
title: Quaker relief work in France