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Furniture factory display at the Munich Export Fair 1946

In a storage hall a craftsman examines a finished chest of drawers while nearby workers drag a heavy machine across the floor. The footage belongs to the Munich Export Fair of 1946, where Bavarian firms presented their goods to an international audience. The exhibition was one of the first attempts to reconnect the economy of the American occupation zone with world trade and earn urgently needed foreign currency for reconstruction. The furniture factory shown stood in for the many craft businesses struggling with materials, sales and sheer survival in the postwar years.

Period
1946
Credit
The March of Time (Outtakes)US National ArchivesPublic Domain (NARA) · Digitalisierung und Bearbeitung: © zb Media GmbH

Specifications

Clip name
HFE010028
Length
0' 27"
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Frames per Second
24 fps
Chroma Subsampling
yuv422p10le
Resolution
1920 × 1080
Format
MOV
File Size
610,736,500 bytes
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