American Aid To Greece AKA U.S. Aid To Greece (1948)

Salonika, Kozani, Corinth Canal, Greece Various shots of barefoot workers / dockers unloading material (probably coal) in baskets from barges at the dockside, views down into the hold of a barge, and loading coal onto trucks in railway siding. LS. Row of American Dodge trucks. LS. Pan over derelict harbour buildings. MS. Crane on repair work in Salonika harbour. MS. An American diver surfacing. MS. Crane swinging concrete blocks from jetty into water. LS. A section of the Corinth canal under repair. MS. Concrete blocks being lowered into Salonika harbour as diver in foreground enters water. CU. Notice on crate ’Amag to Salonika’. LS. The airfield at Kozani showing steel mat surface for landing planes in winter. MS and LS. Workmen constructing wooden huts at Salonika to install refugees. They are prefabricated buildings.(11 shots). LS. Crane at work lowering blocks into a harbour, men at work possibly stabilising crane. Various shots of welder at work on metal sheeting. (Badly fogged.) LS. High shot of cran
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