Milk For Europe’s Children (1947)

Unissued / Unused material. Canadian factories manufacture dried milk for shipment to Europe. Montreal, Canada. Various shots trucks driving to the Montreal docks, showing the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Bon Secours in the background. M/S barrels of milk powder being unloaded from a truck onto the docks. M/S silhouette shots of barrels being swung aboard a ship. M/S group of officials who are speaking for the CBC in front of a microphone. Left to right Father Beneditto Maria Maltempi, (rector of Notre Dame de Mont Carmel) Conte Carol Feciadi Cossato, (Italian ambassador to Canada,) Honourable Ernest Bertrand, (Postmaster General of Canada) Honourable Brooke Claxton, (Minister of National Defence). C/U pan down barrels of milk. M/S Father Maltempi blessing the barrels. C/U label on a barrel which says “UN Children’s food“. M/S of barrels being swung onto the ship and lowered into the hold. C/U C. S. Cossato shaking hands with Brooke Claxton. Various shots small churns of milk being pushed into the fa