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IS8 FILM LIBRARY WOMAN AGAINST WOMAN 2 reels, sound. $4.00 a day (Guide) (COHR) The problem that confronts a young woman who marries a divorced man and goes to live in the same town in which his first wife and child are living. The second wife discovers that her mother-in-law's sympa- thies are with her predecessor and that the first wife's friends are divided in their attitudes. The second wife is humiliated by unpleasant scenes at the country club and ostracized by the local women's bridge club. She is tempted to separate from her husband but decides to stay and fight. For use in adult groups only. THE WORLD IS RICH 4 reels, sound. $7.50 a day (BIS) Producer: Paul Rotha This film describes the food situation at the end of the last war, the efforts of UNRRA at amelioration, and analyzes the world problem of food which had its beginnings long before the war. Diagrams show the distribution of food and the position of export and import nations. Famine, flood, and drought, as well as war, added to the depletion of stocks. The F.A.O. met in 1945 in Quebec to raise farming levels in the world and met again in Copenhagen in 1946. The film shows how under inadequate distribution methods food was fed to animals while people elsewhere died of starvation, how in the world depression grain prices slumped, farmers were ruined by plenty, and food was burned and dumped. It is suggested that a plan which prevails in the United States, namely, to allow the farmers to store grains in low-price seasons until prices rise, may be applied to the world situation. The film ends with an appeal by Sir John Orr, Director-General of F.A.O. WORLD OF PLENTY 4 reels, sound. $7.50 a day (BIS) Producer: Paul Rotha The story of men and food—past, present, and future. The film opens with the prewar problem of overproduction and the anomaly of glutted markets and hungry people. The second part shows the control being exercised over production, distribution, and price during the Second World War. The film ends with a picture of what might be done, when peace comes, in planning for the production and distribution of food according to world needs. Animated diagrams, pertinent pictorial ma-