Welt im Bild 82/1954 19.01.1954

1st special service: four Conference in Berlin the Brandenburg Gate (title underground) from aircraft of United States Air Force Secretary Foster Dulles rises at Tempelhof airport. Photographers. US military band playing the national anthem. Dulles is out front of the stand accompanied by High Commissioner James B. Conant and General Timmermann. Sign Gare Français Berlin Tegel. The French Minister of Foreign Affairs George Bidault rises from train. Bidault moves from front of the stand. In Tempelhof, comes the British Foreign Minister Antony Eden from aircraft and is welcomed. British stand presenting the gun. Eden is out front of the stand. Russian aircraft rolls out. The Russian Foreign Minister Molotow rises at the ostzonalen airfield Schönfeld aircraft and is welcomed by representatives of the East German Government. Molotov gets into car. The Schöneberg Town Hall. George Bidault enlists in the Golden Book of the city. Lettering. Antony Eden beside the ruling Mayor Dr. Schreiber is registered in the Golden book. Lettering. Dulles enlists. Lettering. Dulles speaks. Quote: "...Not just for the people of Berlin, not just for the people of Germany, but for the call of justice, with which wellfare of all humanity..." Interpreter: "I thank you, Mr. Mayor, you and I agree you again face on behalf of the American delegation, we will focus our efforts on this goal not only in the interests of the people of Berlin or of the whole of Germany, but in the interest of the wishes of all peoples that have nothing more to desire as a period of peace."

02. Austria: avalanche disaster avalanche rescue dogs in the snow. Men look at map. Rescue squad on the on-the-scene. Sniffer dogs search for missing persons. Destroyed houses. Spilled cow is recovered from snow. Stretchers are brought in helicopters. Injured be taken to rescue helicopters. Train at railway station Dalaas spilled. Station building was divided into 2 parts. Funeral procession at the funeral of 19 victims of the disaster. Soldiers pull coffins on sled. Funeral service. Umbrellas image filling. Weeping people, great. Wreaths are laid down. Children sitting at the coffin.

03. Frankfurt: State Secretary Hallstein and general adopt German hospital for Korea on the Rhine-Main airport mobile staff of a German field hospital for Korea. Members of the German Red Cross get on plane. Scandianvian airlines propeller plane on.

04. Paris: inauguration of René Coty honor guard on horseback accompanied Palace René Coty standing in an open car to the Elysee. Stand presented the Elysee Palace. The outgoing President Vincent Auriol receives René Coty. State ceremony in the Elysee Palace MDM Coty as a listener. Auriol presented a necklace of the Grand Cross of the Legion of honour - close-up René Coty Coty.

05. Australia: British atomic bomb test mushroom cloud. Professor William Penney leads atomic bomb attempt against aircraft. Steel Tower on the bomb to be detonated. Flying weather balloons. Cameramen. Pointer of the count down is approaching 5 seconds the point 0 lightning. Mushroom. Rockets with measuring instruments are shot down in the danger zone. Clouds of smoke of the guns. Explosion of smoke.

06. United States: Wedding Barbara Hutton Barbara Hutton gets out of car. It is done with interconnecting foot wheelchair. Empty interior of Chartered flew. Barbara Hutton held up in wheelchair stairs.

07. United States: Universe Christine Martel / France wedding by Miss Miss Universe Christine Martel in wedding dress next to her groom. Kiss of the bride and groom. Waving to people. Bride and groom drink from glass.

08 Vancouver: The strongest man which tackle world weightlifter Hepburn weight, bends the metal rod, young man with outstretched arms to tackle high. Young man makes Handstand. Lying down, he lifts weight and 2 girls.

09 Berlin: German Figure Skating Championships Figure Skating Championships at the Berlin Sports Palace. Men: Fremuth freestyle stone of the winner. Ladies: Bush Freestyle Champion and Weltmeisterschaftszweiten Garrett. Pairs: Running the winner Inge Minor - Hermann Braun. Clapping spectators filling picture.

10 Austria: skiing in Montafon men's slalom: at the start of Olympic champion Eriksson / Norway. Door. Toni Spiess / Austria, on the track. No. 13 Walter Schuster / Austria is overall winner of the combined and is the 4th place in the slalom. Fall. Josl Rieder / Austria on the route. Trip purpose and audience. Christl Pravda, no. 11 at the start. Ride through target. Christl Pravda WINS. Close-up.

Initial brand avalanche disaster in Austria and burial Montafonopfer camera: Karna, Koch origin: Austria Spotlight Frankfurt: German hospital f. Korea camera: strong, p inauguration Coty origin: Pathé journal Australia: British nuclear tests origin: Pathe news married Barbara Hutton origin: Metro Miss Universe marries origin: Metro strongest man, world champion Hepburn origin: Metro sports German Skating Championship i. Berlin camera: Obeng Montafon ski racing camera: Karna, Hafner final brand

In the Valley of death, the white death kept harvesting in the Alps. The worst avalanche disaster in the history of Austria wiped out 200 lives and made hundreds homeless. Helicopters were used to rescue the seriously injured. This mountain slope in the great Walser Valley is the avalanche fall like shaved. Where once stood the village of Blons, a single heap of rubble now rises. Still, the search for the missing people goes. For days, the villages from the outside world were cut off. Only with extreme difficulty, the rescuers reached the scene of the disaster. The avalanche surprised man and animal. The white death in the valleys sank within a few seconds. The inhabitants were helplessly exposed. A part of the buried alive managed by superhuman efforts to mountains. Still, the horror of the moment is in their faces. Hundreds of avalanches fell two days on the unsuspecting villages. A whole train from the tracks was raised in Dalaas. The station building is splintered into two parts. The Government of Vorarlberg has ordered national mourning. 19 victims of the disaster were buried in Schruns. The surviving municipality and a last greeting to a last prayer is gathered in the small cemetery.

Spotlight of the week: Frankfurt: German field hospital for Korea on the Rhine-Main airport adopted State Secretary Hallstein and General mobile staff of a German field hospital for Korea. The hospital is a gift of the Federal Republic; It has 400 beds and a private operation tent under the direction of a Kiel surgeon. 75 members of the German Red Cross took leave from home. Their mission takes them to the far East.

Paris: inauguration of the new President the French capital celebrated the inauguration of the new President, René Coty. With solemn pomp moved the head of State through the streets of Paris. Front of the Palais d ' Elysée, René Coty was received by the departing Vincent Auriol. Members of Parliament, diplomats, senators and high-ranking officers to a solemn state funeral are gathered in the historic Ballroom. Under the sound of the Marseillaise, Vincent Auriol handed over to his successor the attribute of the dignity of the President, the necklace of the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur.

Australia: British nuclear tests in the desert of Professor William Penney became the second British nuclear test in the desert of Woomera. On a 60-metre-high steel Tower, the bomb is brought to the explosion. Weather balloons Ascend with measuring instruments on the test site. The timing is propitious. The film cameras available. From Prof. Penney twenty kilometers from the bomb waiting for the explosion. In the fraction of a second, the ball of fire against the sky roars. Special missiles carry complex measuring devices in the death zone of the devastating fungus. After hours is the pillar of smoke bomb as a threatening sign on the horizon and the man stunned faces his own work.

Colorful world: the richest woman is the richest woman in the world after her fifth attempt. Barbara Hutton has remarried. Once not heartbroken, but only with broken foot she was a manual for the honeymoon. The chosen one has already heavy to carry to the marriage.

The most beautiful woman Auch Christine Martel stood before the altar. She acquired a young American and a rich Schwiegerpapa. From birth, Mademoiselle is French, of age because it is one of 17 Lenze and by profession, she is the most beautiful woman in the world.

The strongest man in the strongest man in the world lives in Vancouver/Canada. World Champion Hepburn carries the heavy burden of his profession with playful serenity. Who so easily can bend things of life itself, it is easy to take his fellows on the arm. The whole thing weighs a little of 7 Hundredweights.

Sports: Champions on ice in the Berlin Sportpalast German Figure Skating Championships. The Nuremberg Freimuth stone successfully defended his title in the men's.
Favorite and No more to overtake was Gundi Busch: best runner in Germany and second best in the world.
For the first time of German Champion in pair skating Inge Minor and Hermann Braun from Tölz were the successor to the still unrivalled Falk, now.

Ski race with Crape international race of Montafon in Schruns in Austria. 'S Olympic champion of Eriksen from Norway set the fastest time of the day.
The timekeeper registered relentlessly. The struggle with the difficult course is no lightness. Number 15, Toni Spiss in Austria.
Number 13, Walter Schuster was overall winner in the combination but only 4 in the slalom. Josl Rieder - Austria went through all doors and was hard to keep on the target.
His compatriot Christl Pravda, number 11, was the Schnetzerhang slalom King.
In the excellent time of 2 minutes, 3.7 seconds, he was ranked first.

Date of Release:

19.01.1954

Year of Production:

1954

Camera Work:

Hafner, Anton; Starke, Rainer; Koch; Kubesch; Onasch; Pankau

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Allianz-Film GmbH

Source Foreign Material:

Pathé Journal; Austria; Metro; Pathé News

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German