Welt im Film 130/1947 21.11.1947

01 updates soon a. Frankfurt / Main: topping the Paulskirche pan across the St. Paul's Church with scaffolding. Carpenter says the verdict and can smash his glass on the ground. Richtkranz is raised. Mayor Kolb talks, half-close.
(22 m) b. Bavaria: Murray van Wagoner is Director military Government Van Wagoner sitting on the coffee table with his wife and daughter. He leaves his house and drives in the car.
(11 m) 02 Lübeck today long shot of the city. The Holsten Gate, large (driving record). View through archway on moving tram. Built the Town Hall, in three styles. The St. Mary's Church. The Castle gate. Weavers in the carpet weaving in the gate. The refugee farm and the Hoevelgang, as dwellings of single widows. The Café Niederegger in the basement. Henry Porten, great as a guest at Niederegger. The Lübeck Cathedral, outside and inside, with destruction. Small streets of the waterfront. The Boatman cultural House, with old COGS. Ships in the port of Lübeck.
(53 m) 03 pictures from all over the world a. United States: forest fire plumes of smoke. With a large flame burning forest. Burning forest At night. Fire storm. Fire at delete. Burning houses. Chimney collapses. Burned-out houses and devastated country.
(30 m) b. England: helicopter as rescuers from emergency helicopter flies before lighthouse. The lighthouse, total. Lighthouse keeper is roped off in high seas on rope to the lifeboat. He is drawn to rope in helicopters. Ship capsized off the coast. Castaway is drawn to rope on helicopters to land. He is drawn in helicopters. Flying helicopters, large.
(32 m) c. wild geese flock of wild geese flying up. Flying wild geese, screen-filling.
(21 m) 04 tram ride in the Hall training of tram drivers to test vehicles in the Hall. Schaffner stand side by side and go to command, set course and apply brakes at risk. Conductors at clothing. Trams operate side by side out of the depot.
(35 m) 05. streiflichter from Germany a. Düsseldorf: press image "Walter von der Vogelweide" exhibition. The word of Abraham Lincoln as a leitmotif of the exhibition "The pen is stronger than the sword". The good mountain press in Mainz with printers in old costumes. Model of a rotary machine. Editor at the desk. Type-setter sets manuscript. Graphical representation of the run-in of a message up to the pressure. Cartoons from readers.
(28 m) b. Frankfurt / Main: merchants go to United States heads of men, great. The merchants beckon from the aircraft steps. Rolling on aircraft, tall, from behind.
(14 m) c. Munich: child welfare girl is measured and weighed. Boy is bugged. Child is examined on the examination table. Children play in nursery. The children of building, tinkering, on Schaukelpferden, at dinner, on the pot and the NAP (partial close-ups).
(33 m) 06. India: progress and traditional boats on the water. Government buildings in Delhi. Delegates from 22 Nations go to the National Assembly. Festival of the Maharaja of Gwalior. The Maharadschah dedicates to elephants and an old cannon. Elephant procession. The Maharadschah proceeds to the throne. Indian bow. The Maharaja and Maharani of Jaipur. Caparisoned elephants.
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01 news in brief: St. Paul's Church before half a year in Frankfurt am Main with the rebuilding of St. Paul's Church began, in 1848, the first German National Assembly met.
Now, the topping-out ceremony was celebrated. St. Paul's Church should be rebuilt in the next year to the centennial of the National Assembly.
A room polishing in his costume says the verdict and is wrecked after an old tradition of the glass on the ground. Then the Richtkranz is raised.
Mayor Kolb speaks to the representatives of the authorities and the citizenry.
Many property and money donations for the reconstruction of the historic Paulskirche entered from all over Germany and abroad.

b. van Wagoner Murray van Wagoner, former Governor of the State of Michigan, United States, was appointed as the Director of the military Government for Bavaria. His wife and daughter reside with him in Munich. Van Wagoner was most recently Advisor to General Clay in Berlin. He is the successor to General Walter Muller, who returns to America.

02. Lübeck today Lübeck, the old Hanseatic City on the river Trave, greets even today with the familiar landmarks of his great past. The Holsten Gate was preserved, as many houses in the brick Gothic style. Total Lübeck lost one third of its buildings during the war. The newer part was destroyed by the Town Hall, which is built in three styles. Here the Church. The Castle gate, seen from the inside of the city. Inside the gate is a weaving continues mainly the tradition of carpet weaving. The refugee justice is the Foundation of Lübeck Councillors for single widows. The Hoevelgang serves the same purpose whose idyllic houses a form piece ALT-Lübeck.
The well-known Café Niederegger continues operation in the basement after destruction of its premises. Here you can meet Henny Porten in Lübeck. The Cathedral has its spires war lost also the nave was badly damaged. Construction works preserve the Cathedral from further decay. The small streets in the port district of Lübeck is a piece of living past. Even today, the sea-faring descendants of the Hanseatic League meet in the boatman Community House. Also the port of Lübeck slowly recovers its old meaning. Lübeck, the gateway to the North, finds its way into the world again.

03. images from all over the world: a. forest fires In the State of Maine in the northeastern of United States, a forest fire of gigantic proportions emerged as a result of unusual drought.
35 forest complexes collected in a stretch of over 50 kilometres from the disaster. The storm wind caused the flames reached hurricane strength temporarily.
They found many volunteers from far and near alamierten fire brigades in the population. Despite tireless deletes even efficiently by day and night the destruction of entire villages could be prevented.
The disaster made 7,000 people homeless and caused a loss of 40 million dollars.

b. helicopter in England the helicopter anywhere as a flying girl for everything proved.
A new type of application has been tested in England!
The detachment or Lighthouse crew rescue in heavy seas has been a complicated maneuver: the helicopter to make this easier - on a rope thrown from the lighthouse keeper on board is taken.
Another case: From a stranded ship crew was a similarly lengthy and often dangerous companies formerly with the rescue pants land.
Now, the sinking ship sets off a boat, and the helicopter picks up man for man... like clockwork.

c. 1 million geese on one of her hiking trains from the North of Alaska to the warmer South click flocks of wild geese on a lake. Their wing beat fills the air, and if they get up, they hang like a cloud in the sky.
A million geese in flight - the largest air fleet in the bird world ever captured by a camera.

04. tram ride in the room: the BVG, the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, is also when the weather regularly organised in the Hall Instead of - namely, the training of the next generation of drivers and attendants.
In a course of five weeks duration first theoretically, inaugurated the tram's future arms then practically in the various secrets of the technique. There is boosted and pace, there will be slowed and because points are set before held the first trial runs on the track.
Now - a whole trip in the Hall with all of the traffic today surprises: (original sound: warning - danger - brakes.)
At the end of the training period is dressing up. The pupils and students of the man engine have become masters. Now they must prove that they have grown the traffic today.

06. streiflichter from Germany: a. Press exhibition in Düsseldorf the North West German newspaper publishers association organizes a representative press review.
The historical Department reported the first precursors of a higher intelligence.
The word of Abraham Lincoln's "The pen is stronger than the sword" is the leitmotif of the exhibition.
The Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany provided the first press of Johann Gutenberg's on loan.
An exhibition newspaper is produced before the eyes of the visitors. Here the model of a rotary machine.
An insight into an editorial operation.
A manuscript is in the planter.
This graph demonstrates iterating a message up to its evaluation.
Supported by illustrations, the exhibition conveys an impressive showcase of the new German press.

(b). German merchants flew five German merchants to United States from Frankfurt am Main to the United States. The group consists of one representative of glass and accessories manufacturing, as well as the textile, leather and toy industry. The visitors will stay 30 days in the United States and visit several American cities.
The first representatives of the German postwar economy now have opportunity to come to the American business world in direct contact.

c. nursery of winter brings increased risks to the health of children. In Munich, a clinic opened therefore by the American side, in which children are examined free of charge and treated. Daily go about 50 patients through this counselling. A German doctor leads the investigations.
A different kind of care offers the infant crib, which was built by the city of Munich. Here children staying during the day by working mothers. They play and tinkering, they live in the world of fairy tales and childhood adventures. There is a delicious lunch for 50 cents.
And now: preparations for the afternoon nap...

05. India - progress and tradition still connects to the image of a country of miracles and the Weltentrücktheit the term of India.
But India witnessed today the perhaps the biggest twist of its internal structure and the external form: in Delhi meets the National Assembly of the newly created State of India; Delegates from 22 Nations come here together, the problems of India and beyond to discuss the entire far East.
The scene in the Palace of the Maharajah of Gwalior is quite different. Here there is the tradition and the whole pageantry of the Indian ceremonial unfolds on the occasion of a Festival.
The end of the rainy season is the occasion for the great play. The Rajah consecrate Holy bulls and elephants. Also an old Cannon symbolically receives the consecration. Zauberkräftige amulets of the tusks to hang the elephants. The next day, a procession on the back v moves elephants to the ruling seat of the maharajas. Gracefully walks the Maharaja... his jewel-adorned throne, to receive the tributes. The Maharaja's children attend the solemn action. Also at the Court of the Maharaja of Jaipur, the Festival takes place after traditional ceremony. For the first time, the Maharani on this occasion shows in public. So, progress and tradition in India stand side by side.

Date of Release:

21.11.1947

Year of Production:

1947

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Commissioned by:

USIS

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German