Reviewing The Year 1949 (1949)
Full title reads: Reviewing The Year 1949. Intertitle reads: As 1950 moves in it brings to the halfway mark the 20th century. The century of the common man. The century of the atom bomb. The century that in half its life span has already brought us two world wars. On the eve of its half century, it found the free thinking nations putting their faith in strength to prevent a third. GV dawn breaking over aerodrome. GV Capitol Building, Washington DC, United States of America (USA). SV Flags of Atlantic Pact nations. Signing of Pact by Count Carlos Forza, Ernest Bevin, Dean Acheson (watched by Alben Barkley and President Harry S Truman). Scenes at the end of the Berlin blockade. Russian soldiers remove barriers and goods flow back to city. Riots are broken up in the West German city. Chinese troops in Shanghai. British troops in Hong Kong. Big communist parade in Red Square, Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin looks over the parade. Parade of troops in Yugoslavia. Marshal Josip Broz Tito w
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