Welt im Film 145/1948 05.03.1948

01 streiflichter from Germany a. exhibition the Steg - acquisition authority for charitable good posters. Exhibition of objects from the holdings of the former Wehrmacht, be recovered. Aircraft engine. Grenades are stoves and cooking pots. Cork insoles are lingerie cartridges. Dresses in uniforms. Lamps.
(27 m) b. Hamburg: school newspaper "The schoolyard" young editors. Type-setter of planter. Distribution of the student newspaper before school. Students read the newspaper in the schoolyard. Children with the school newspaper in the class.
(19 m) c. Berlin: chess tournament chess players sit at long tables. Russian chess players go from table to table and put the pawns against multiple opponents. Chess game, great. Viewers to the tables.
(21 m) 02. miracle of technology: the mechanical computer genius in New York: giant electronic computing brain. Young woman on the control panel. Paper tape in electronic brain. Working electron brain calculates the position of the Moon during the next two centuries. Moon ball, great.
(33 m) 03 fight of the Tuberculosis screening. Young man before the X-ray screen. Nurses and doctors against X-ray apparatus. Toddler will be x-rayed. Doctor considered radiography. School examination. Badge on the uniform of a Danish military doctor, great. Children are vaccinated protection. Small children are bathed by the sisters. Child in bed, great. Children eat at tables. Boy eats, great. Children lie on a sun-lounger terrace. Young woman on arm, great with child. Treatment Centre for adults in Berchtesgaden. Doctor examination. Patients in beds on the terrace.
(61 m) 04 updates soon a. Frankfurt / Main: meeting of the Economic Council meeting of the Business Council. Dr. Erich Köhler opened the meeting, great. Representatives of all countries present. Dr. Remmele, oldest Member of the Council, takes over the chairmanship to the election of the new President. Dr. Erich Köhler is re-elected and Dr. Remmele congratulates. Franz Josef Strauss as a listener.
(18 m) b. Ceylon State opening of Parliament in Colombo is self-employed with the Duke of Gloucester, totally. The flag of Ceylon is hoisted.
(23 m) c. Niagara falls in the snow the Niagara falls in the snow, great.
(12 m) 5th Wertheim / main: 100 years of gymnastics cityscape of Wertheim. Narrow street with half-timbered houses. Gymnastics demonstration. Men with beards and suits groups screening with free weights. Girls with long skirts in aerobics with rods. Gymnastics Group today with short skirts. Turner at gymnastics. Stretching gymnast, bullion Turner. Audience clapping.
(42 m) 6 issues of today: what costs of household men in the forge at the hammers of red-hot steel and machinery. Man, woman, and children sitting around the table. Woman stuffs stockings. Man counting money. Black market. Man sells his smoking card. Exchange the smoking card and money bills, great. Sign Otto MITTELSTäDT, master shoe maker. Mrs. holt torn shoes out of the bag outside the shop and man gives her money. Woman washes on the washboard. Man questioned it, actuality of the static Office. "You say woman Nolde, are you actually with the weekly wages of your husband's?" "Excluded, since I do not get along. You could buy what you get on cards, but heard still to daily life, it's hard." "I can believe them. We would also like that once 2000 housewives In fact quite and clearly prove this, and therefore I would ask you to fill us once this booklet with all expenditure and revenue allocation period." "Yes, that I can make, but must you write into that, what you can get to from behind." "Yes, not only, they are even. You have no risk, because, as you can see, your name will be in the book not listed." Computer equipment with cards.
(67 m) 07. surfing in Australia surf on the coast of Australia. Life saver pass through the surf boat that capsizes. Float in the high surf. Surfer on the surf crash into the water. Surfer (ZL) is submerged.
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01 streiflichter from Germany: a. bar the State recording company for public good, STEG, called organized pattern shows at the time in many cities.
The exhibition gives an overview of the methods and possibilities for the evaluation of stocks of the former German Wehrmacht.
The organisation of the bridge works within the entire U.S. zone. Former war material, tools, spare parts and high-quality aircraft engines To find new use.
Vises, stoves and cooking pots made of grenades. The Cork inserts by cartridges are processed for lingerie. Stealth and flight suits are clothes. Also craft products emerge from otherwise not evaluated material. The Jetty captured million values for the peace economy work.

(b). Student newspaper editorial work on one of the most recent and most interesting newspapers in the British zone: A Hamburg high school students To give out a private journal titled "The playground". It is intended for students and is written solely by students. Like every newspaper, the production goes way by the editors about the printer for shipment.
As you can see, is paragraph electrifying the new number of "schoolyard" in every schoolyard.
This sheet of youth appears once per month in an edition of 2,000 copies - it takes contributions from the school district of Hamburg. Later students of the entire British zone to work with.

c. chess in Berlin gave it an interesting chess event: station on their journey to the chess world championships in the Hague made five Russian chess master and chess played simultaneously against the 121 best Berlin.
4 of the guests had 25 opponents - one of them 21. Moving parts - by Brett evolved to Board train.
Many Chess enthusiasts saw this simultaneous game - in which the Russians won 69 games, lost 15 and 37 designed draw.

02. miracle of technology: the mechanical computer genius in New York approved the largest mechanical Calculator in the world. This electronic brain can add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
The complicated mechanism is from a Panel. Problems be solved with uncanny precision and speed, to calculate hundreds of mathematicians would need a life.
The electric brain handled 3,500 additions or subtractions in a single second. It is able to memorize 400,000 digits and to 24,000 solve in one minute.
A perpetual dance of numbers accompanied the electrons brain operations. His first task is to calculate the positions of the Moon for the next two centuries in advance. This work will be expected within two years.

03. fight of the tuberculosis has experienced in the war - and postwar always spread the consumption or tuberculosis. Two things is important in the fight against this dangerous disease: early detection of infection and immediate treatment by a specialist.
The time-lapse recordings allow an examination of broad population groups with the portable screen. The X-ray of the lungs is kept firmly photographically in snapshots. Vulnerable or ill are transferred to the treatment.
But there are also preventive measures: the Danish Red Cross has set up several mobile stations that carry out investigations in schools in Germany and other European countries. Children who have insufficient antibodies against tuberculosis in itself, are vaccinated with a mainly. In Hesse alone 20,000 of such vaccinations were carried out so far. Tuberculosis is curable, if detected early enough and treated properly. Despite the time-related difficulties, medical institutions and charities to forces provide for the tuberculosis sufferers. Special clinics with modern facilities and health resorts in climatically conveniently serve this purpose. Here the infant hospital Geissach at Tölz, are treated in up to 150 children. A treatment centre for adults in Berchtesgaden.
Many hours a day the patient here enjoys the healing power of light, air and Sun, the natural helpers in the fight against one of the worst scourges of mankind.

04. updates soon: a. Economic Council, Frankfurt on the main in Frankfurt am Main of the advanced economic Council began its work. Representatives of all eight countries of the United West zone were also present.
Dr. Erich Köhler, the former President of the Economic Council, opened the 11th General Assembly of women participated for the first time.
To carry out the election of the new President, the oldest Member of the House, Dr. Remmele, temporarily took over the Presidency. Dr. Erich Köhler was re-elected by a large majority.
The bizonale Business Council will work with the newly created National Council closely.

b. Ceylon the island of Ceylon in the Indian Ocean was an independent Dominion of the British Empire.
On the day of the opening of Parliament, the capital city of Colombo offered a colorful picture. In the streets decorated with flags, the population expected the Duke of Gloucester, who came as a representative of the British Crown.
Diplomatic representatives from 25 countries were present.
The Duke of Gloucester conveyed the greetings and wishes of England. In the subsequent formal change of flag, the flag of the new dominion for the first time was shown.
The Declaration of independence of Ceylon begins a new chapter in the history of the country.

c. Niagara Falls are one of the most famous landmarks of America Niagara falls.
In winter, they offer an image of great beauty: the thundering waters plunge over the massive ice barricades in the depth.
Beaten unleashed nature of frost and snow in bizarre shapes.

05. 100 years of gymnastics in the picturesque town of Wertheim am main the Gymnastics Club hosted a stage show that year history of gymnastics brought excerpts from de 100. Over 250 gymnasts and gymnasts participated.
It was then, in 1848: it started with massive weights and Chin beard.
50 years later - at the turn of the century: with a long skirt and wooden bar.
And yet, this woman gymnastics at the time was an almost revolutionary Act!
Today, the gymnastics includes also gymnastics and games. The whole body is trained through. Of the basic exercises, it is on the more difficult stages of body training completed Cup on the devices.

06. problems of today: how much is the budget?
The one work in the factory, the others in the Office. Careful work is required of all - even under the current difficult circumstances.
For all, there is the Lohntag - once per week or once per month - but in the evening is clear up at the family Council once again: it's not enough. You cannot live by what you earn. What now? Many are finding themselves forced to sell again and again items and values.
These employees sold his smoking card on the black market to obtain some money. Where should you get otherwise the little things, you need to live and to give? One is on the other hand - the housewife can tell many a tale. Statistical offices should now determine by a survey, what really costs a household.
Original sound: "you say woman Nolde..."
Even the smallest amounts, that emits a housewife, must be recorded in the book. As a picture of the real costs of a household can win only from the exact sum of all editions.
It then evaluates the documents identified by the survey. Two thousand housewives so have a responsibility: they create through their voluntary participation the basis for the correct answer to the question: what costs a household today...

07. surfing in Australia at this time's up there on the coast of Australia.
The Lifesaver To want take on their boats during a test drive with the biggest waves, but they have almost effort, to bring his own life in security.
Despite the unusually high surf has beyond A few swimmers.
And now: the artists of the surf: the surfer. But the waves are stronger than man.
The slow motion camera captures all the details.
One dares again. Will he make it? He is sent Very much sent! But this time there is a fall in the raging element.
Still, a master of surfing. In full speed it goes... upside down.

05. 100 Years of Gymnastics
At Wertheim/Main the Gymnastic Club gave a show presenting flashes of 100 years of Gymnastic. More than 250 gymnasts participated. This was gymnastics in 1848. 50 years later ... Gymnastic by females was a revolutionary deed. Today the whole body is trained and there are many ways to become a master.

06. Problems of to-day
What does a house-hold cost to-day? Some people work in a factory, others in an office. All have to work carefully - - under present hard conditions. There is payday once a week or a month - - and the family is sure: "It won't be enough, we can't live on this amount." What can be done? This worker sells his tobacco ration ticket on the black market, to get some money. For things are high these days. The statistical offices now are inquiring what a household really costs. (Original Sound). The smallest expenses must be booked by the housewife, who has an important task, now, to help answer the question: What does a household cost today?

07. Riding the Waves in Australia
The life guards in Australia have a big time now. As you see they even dare to ride against the highest waves, but they have to be careful to save their own lives.

01. News Flashes from Germany:

a. STEG
The State Collection Point for Public Property, "STEG", has arranged in many towns sample shows, which give an allround survey of the methods and possibilities of using up war material of the former Deutsche Wehrmacht. This organisation works in the whole U.S.Zone. Many new things can be made of the instruments, aeroplane motors, etc., for instance stoves, pots, shoes, clothes. Even objects of applied art. STEG collects millions worth of goods for peace-time industry.

b. Students' News Paper
The pupils of a Hamburg gymnasium publish their own paper, "Der Schulhof". This paper is exclusively written by and made for students. This paper arouses great interest among the youngsters. It is put out every month, with 2,000 copies. First in Hamburg, later British Zone pupils will collaborate.

c. Chess
There was an interesting chess event at Berlin: five Russian champions who were on a journey to Den Haag for the chess world championships stopped in Berlin to play against 121, of Berlin's chess experts. 4 of the guests had 25 challengers - - one had 21. There were thrilling matches and a large attendance. The Russians won 69 games, lost 15, and scored 37 "remis".

02. Miracles of Technique

The mechanical brain
The world's largest counting machine was established in New York. It can add, subtract, multiply and divide, and is controlled by a complicated mechanism. Tasks can be solved in a minute which would take hundreds of mathematicians a whole life long. In one second this electrical brain solves 3,500 additions or substractions. It can remember 400,000 numbers. The first job will be to find out the position of the moon for the next two centuries. This task will be finished in about 2 years.

03. Fighting T.B
T.B. cases increased immensely during the war and after. Two things are important to fight this dangerous disease: 1. the early discovery of an infection and 2. immediate treatment by a specialist. The movable x-ray device makes it possible to check the widest circles of the population. Sick persons are sent to a doctor. But there are also measures of prevention. The Danish Red Cross has several portable stations in Germany and other European countries for the checking of school children. Children who have not enough defence bacterias in their bodies are inoculated. In Hesse alone 20,000 of these inoculations have been done. T.B. can be cured if special treatment is started early. Here is a T.B. hospital for small children at Geissach near Tölz housing up to 150 kids. Another hospital is at Berchtesgaden for adults.

04. Actualities in Brief:

a. Economic council, Frankfurt o/Main
The enlarged Economic Council resumed activity in Frankfurt. Representatives of all 8 lands in the United West Zones were present. Dr. Erich Köhler, former President of the Economic Council open the 11th general meeting at which, for the first time, women participated. With a great majority Dr. E. Köhler was re-elected. The Bizonal Economic Board will collaborate closely with the new Land Council.

b. Ceylon
Ceylon in the India Ocean became an independant Dominion of the British Empire. Colombo, suitable decorated, awaits the Duke of Gloucester, who represented the British Crown at the day of opening of parliament. Diplomats of 25 nations were present. The Duke of Gloucester brought the greetings of Great Britain. Then the flag of the new Dominion was noisted for the first time.

c. Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls are one of the most famous landmarks in America. In winter, too, these falls are extremely beautiful.

Date of Release:

05.03.1948

Year of Production:

1948

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Commissioned by:

USIS

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German