After World War II, the Marshall Plan transferred over $13 billion of material and technical assistance to 18 European countries. To help explain to citizens how the plan worked, over 260 films were produced by European filmmakers between 1948-1953 at the Paris headquarters. The goal was to paint a convincing picture of a vision of a future in which Europeans could aspire to prosperity, American-style.
Producer: Philip Stapp (writer and animator of the nominated doc short « From Generation to Generation »); director: Peter Sachs. Even as the world grows smaller, Europe five years after World War II remains divided, and, even in the West, disunited. The narrator intones that « in our search for unity, we West Europeans can heed the siren song from the East: the promise of instant unity but without liberty. Or we can build our common defenses, and behind them work for a more prosperous, more just society. For freedom and unity can thrive only where there is a decent standard of living. »
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