French Strikes (1947)

Unissued / Unused material. French strikes and demonstrations. Paris, France. Good C/U head shot of a French miner. General views of a mass meeting. Various shots parade through the streets in a Communist demonstration with Maurice Thorez, French Communist leader in the lead. M/S as people climb into a lorry during the transport strike in Paris. L/S mass meeting. M/S Thorez on platform addressing a meeting. Tracking shot of a Paris street with people walking along the pavement. Good shots of the huge mass meeting. Back view of Thorez speaking in first shot. M/S people distributing and reading newspapers in the street. C/U Thorez chatting. C/U’s people in crowd listening. M/S John Foster Dulles, adviser to the US Secretary of State, Marshall, alighting from a car at the American Embassy. C/U Dulles entering the Embassy with photographers snapping him. M/S Dulles and Jefferson Caffery, US Ambassador to Paris, leaving the Embassy and chatting. L/S US flag flying from the Embassy, panning down t