https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/01b3e3cb-d8c3-4a76-a86e-97f7924c6200 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com “The People’s Charter” (1947) is an educational documentary describing the historical context of WWII and the subsequent formation of the United Nations or U.N. It highlights the extreme suffering and destruction left in the wake of war as well as the need for long term solutions for peace. It shows the signing of the Atlantic Charter completed by FDR and Churchill in 1941, the signing of the Charter of the United Nations in 1945 and the difficult road towards restoration as nations dug out from mounds of rubble and economic debt. It continues to explain the functions of the UN relying on support from the government and the people. Other efforts of the UN included tackling global issues of trade, food, health and human misery. 00:00 It opens with the title screen (:07) and is presented by the U.N. Department of Public Information. Scenes open over farmlands (:17) in peacetime and again in wartime. Explosions erupt and combat interrupts daily lives, employment and food production (:26). Welders seal automobile parts together at a plant (:28). Bomber planes peel off from formation (:32). Air raid sirens wail (:36). A Heinkel He drops a pay load (:40). Masses of soldiers surrender (:52). Images follow of the HMS Prince of Wales (1:01). Roosevelt and Churchill meet in August of 1941 (1:00) for the signing of the Atlantic Charter. Intended goals of the charter are discussed (1:11). Radios across the globe share words of the charter (1:20). Struggles to maintain peace included increasing battlefronts (1:24). Bombs fall over Pearl Harbor (1:36). The Declaration of the United Nations was the main treaty signed in January of 1942. FDR, Churchill, Maxim Litvinov and T.V. Soong are pictured at the long table (1:49). Negative reactions to the signing included guerilla warfare (2:06). Radio men (2:21) and detonators (2:27) prepare to blow a rail line. The fuse shortens and a blast erupts (2:32). Industry pumps out war materials (2:39). Naval guns blow (2:50). An M3 Stuart blasts through (2:50). Allied troops look over maps (2:59) and heavy anti-aircraft guns blast (3:08) in combat montage scenes. Wounded civilians are tended to by Allied forces (3:19). A section explains the ties forged through war were to continue in peacetime as so stated by the charter (3:28). The Moscow Conference of 1943 was held at the Kremlin and Spiridonovka Palace. Vyacheslav Molotov is pictured at the center of the table (3:32). Aerial strafing footage follows (3:51). The long road to reconstruction begins (3:57) over images of decimated rail lines. The Dumbarton Oakes Conference of 1944 (4:11) addressed various needs for reconstruction. Survivors of war emerge from bombed out dwellings (4:30). A woman’s bullet wounds are tended to (5:01). The Charter of the UN and Statue of International Court of Justice (5:48) provided a definitive plan for reconstruction. Survivors from concentration camps reunite with loved ones (7:18). Refugees walk with belongings surrounded by rubble (8:45). The process of reconstruction is shown in images of workers on the ground with pick axes (9:32) and hand removing rubble (9:43). Delegates meet for the first meeting of the UN General Assembly on January 10th, 1946 (9:58). How the assembly operates follows (10:32). Mr. James Byrnes (10:47), Clement Attlee (11:25), Mr. Andrei Y. Vyshinsky (11:41), Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar (12:22), Trygve Lie (12:34) make their addresses. Lines of transportation are rebuilt (13:23). Farm machinery harvests grains (13:44) and the sick are tended to (13:52) as food and human misery become other targets of the UN. A paper boy offers issues about efforts of the UN (14:24). The final section of the film looks to future efforts of the UN (14:50) calling for support and participation from citizens of the world. Words from President Franklin Roosevelt / FDR close the feature (15:01). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. 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