World Foreign Film Chronicle (1948)

The Palace building in Brussels.

Participants in the signing ceremony of the Brussels Treaty on Economic, Social and Cultural Cooperation and Collective Self-Defense of the Countries of Western Europe on 17 March 1948 are sitting in chairs.

British Foreign Secretary E. Bevin is among the participants in the ceremony.

Belgian Prime Minister Paul-Henri Spaak signs the text of the treaty.

French Foreign Minister J. Bidault signs the treaty.

Luxembourg Foreign Minister J. Beck signs the treaty.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands signs the treaty.

Signing of the treaty by British Foreign Secretary E. Bevin.

Signatures under the text of the treaty.

Participants in the signing ceremony are sitting in chairs (panorama), Spaak is delivering a speech.

View of the treaty signing hall.

Japanese policemen get out of the back of a truck that has pulled up to a street trading area in Tokyo, the policemen run down the street.

Policemen go to the doors of warehouses.

Checking traders and confiscating illegal goods.

Police officers lead a detainee.

A police officer runs along the street past shops.

People on the street and near shops begin to disperse, traders hide illegal goods.

Police officers carry baskets with confiscated goods for examination (above).

Inspection of goods at a street market.

View of one of the streets of Tokyo with shops and stalls on the sidewalk, police officers are standing by the sidewalk.

Buildings of Berlin hotels and motels, destroyed as a result of street fighting in 1945, not restored.

Workers repairing one of the hotel buildings.

Entrance to the Regina Hotel in Munich.

The porter serves arriving guests.

Doors of temporary boxes for guests to stay, installed in the hotel.

A guest takes off his jacket.

The building of the Adlon Hotel in Berlin.

A train of trolleys with building materials passes by the hotel on tram tracks.

A car enters under the arch of the hotel.

The interior of one of the restored rooms, a clerk brings a guest's suitcase into the room, a maid makes the bed.

A tram passes by one of the surviving hostel hotels in Germany.

The procedure for registering guests.

Guests are placed on bunks.

View of the cathedral building in Cologne.

A woman with a suitcase in her hand walks to the pier to a ship converted into a hotel.

The clerk opens the room for a new guest.

A waiter with a tray enters the restaurant hall on the hotel ship.

Men with suitcases go down to the underground hostel, equipped at one of the Frankfurt metro stations.

Reception of guests' luggage.

Guests enter rooms with linen walls.

A man spreads a blanket on a bunk, getting ready to rest.

Customer service at one of the hotels.

The renovated building of the newly opened hotel.

The grand opening ceremony of the hotel, the director speaks from the podium.

Participants of the event are drinking coffee at the tables.

View of the hotel building.

Fans drink beer in a buffet at one of the stadiums.

Views of damaged structures at Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin in 1948. Work at Anhalter Bahnhof to restore the access roads (top).

Preparing the metal structures of the station’s arched ceiling for the explosion.

View of the frame of the station’s arch, collapse of the metal structures as a result of the explosion.

Collapsed metal structures on the ground (top).

View of the damaged building of the Cologne Cathedral.

Workers repair the Gothic roof of the cathedral.

View of part of the city block in the area of the cathedral (top).

Roofers at work, view of part of the cathedral square (top).

View of part of the Gothic roof of the cathedral.

Lifting one of the cathedral’s architectural details using a block system.

Restoration of stained glass windows in the cathedral.

Workers install a figured grille in the opening of one of the windows.

The inner vault and panorama of the cathedral from the inside (bottom).

View of part of the cathedral.