Welt im Film 215/1949 08.07.1949

01 McCloy in Germany welcome by McCloy in Berlin. He is welcomed by senior officers of the occupying powers. Arrived in Finland. Car passes 15s. McCloy, big, gives press conference.
(30 m) 02 1 year after the currency reform: cities in the construction of Hamburg: vessels in the port. Jungfernstieg. Mönckebergstraße. Car drives forward from Esplanaden hotel. Showcase with shoes. Alster arcades. Grindelhochhäuser under construction. Construction of storage sheds at the port. Cologne: Traffic in the city. Students clearing debris in the Gürzenich. Pan across debris. New buildings. Photographer photographed before the Cathedral. Panoramic view from the Cathedral of the city. Munich: Towers of the Church of our Lady. Traffic on the road. Painter paints window frames. Stuttgart: Shops in the street. Cinema in the former bomb shelter. Scaffolding on houses in reconstruction.
(76 m) 03 sport a. Hamburg: German Handball Championship RSV Mülheim - police Hamburg 7:6 goal throw for Hamburg. Spectators cheering. 5:5 before the extension. Mühlheim WINS in overtime with 7:6 players on the shoulders of supporters.
(22 m) b. United States: Motocross motorcycle riders climb mountain. Motorcycles move. Spectators flee.
(18 m) c. Berlin: boxes Richard Grupe suggests Paco Bueno k.o. grupe box superior. Bueno to the ground must be in the third round. He holds both hands in front of the face staggering continue boxing. The Gong rescues Bueno, but he collapses after conclusion of the round. Spectators, half-close. Grupe Bueno beats knockout in the 5th round (30 m) 04 Munich Geiselgasteig: fire in the game scene from the movie "Playful living" Film Studio. Count Axel von Ambesser and Brigitte Hornea during filming. You walk down stairs. Kurt Meisel playing fiddle. Burning buildings. Fire at delete. Meisel, large, Brigitte Horney, large, Victor Stahl, great. Flames and billows of smoke. Deletion attempts.
(52 m) 5th season on the Lake of Westerland: painters at work at Kurhaus. Cleaners clean Windows. Beach chairs are worn on the beach. People go in the Kurhaus. Woman bathes in the waves. Norderney: Visitors exceed coast steamer in horse-drawn carriages. Bathers in the wave pool. Sand-yachting. Horseback riding on the beach.
(44 m) 6th London and St. Louis: chimpanzee chimpanzees sitting at the table and eat from dishes. Chimpanzee runs across the table. You drink out of cups. Rocks on the Trapeze and the chimpanzee makes giant wave on high bar. Children laugh. Monkey rides on ponies. Monkey run on stilts.
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01 McCloy in Germany John McCloy, the future U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, arrived in Berlin. Senior officers of the three Western occupying powers and a company received a McCloy at the airfield of Tempelhof.
Shortly after his arrival, the High Commissioner held a press conference, in which he put forward the guidelines of future American policy in Germany.
Literally, he said: "Germany must become a peaceful, free and prosperous country." From Berlin, McCloy embarked on a detailed tour through Germany.

02. 1 year after the currency reform: cities under construction a year after the currency reform: the face of West German cities has changed fundamentally. Some examples: In Hamburg, the city almost completely spared by the war shows a picture of busy hustle and bustle. In stores goods of peace-moderate quality. One strolls through the city centre - and buys, as far as the budget allows. Housing on a large scale. Two high-rise buildings. A 288 single rooms and the other with 180 apartments, ready for occupancy in October 1950. Large storage shed are in the building.
The port revives himself more and more - get the handling numbers for all kinds of goods. Hamburg regains connection to the world.
In Cologne, one of the hardest destroyed cities, building is progressing rapidly. The world-famous "Gürzenich" - the town house - students clean up the rubble in voluntary work. Since 1945, 700,000 cubic metres of rubble were removed every year in Cologne, Germany. Cologne's industry was strongly affected by the war, but with tenacity, skill and talent to improvise plants and machines back in motion were used. The badly damaged, but restored to a large extent Cathedral remains the main attraction of Cologne. A look at Munich: Here too-busy life in the streets. While there are still pure, but streets and squares are tidy and everywhere rebuilding, as far as the means to do so are available.
And Stuttgart: striking is here - as in many other cities - the construction of small, often quite elegant shops instead of destroyed commercial buildings.
A movie theater in a former air-raid shelter. Major cities under construction – a sign of the growing progress in the West of Germany.

03. sport a. Handball Championship to the German Handball Championship played in Hamburg of the RSV Mülheim - striped Jersey against Hamburg police. The Madaliya were slightly superior especially in the first half. Played tactically smarter, they were sometimes somewhat hard.
Only towards the end of the game, police were better and could force an open battle.
Goal for Hamburg.
At the final whistle, it was 5: 5. The extension meant. The decision in the 76th minute. Mühlheim WINS with 7: 6 goals, and was so German Handball Championship in 1949.

(b). Sandbahnrennen United States cyclo-cross is here in the United States. A Sandbahnrennen that swirls up A lot of dust. The spectators on the steep slope come at their expense, partly in danger.
But the driver can not be discouraged. The result is always the same: halfway up a Salto backwards.

c. boxes in Berlin for the first time after the war there was an international boxing match. The Spanish heavyweight champion. Paco Bueno - right - competed against Richard Grupe. Already in the third round, the Spaniard is beaten hard.
Only the Bell saved Bueno. Before he can reach his corner but, he collapses.
But in the 4th round he turns back to the fight. The 5th round brought The end. A heavy Uppercut of grupes can be No more come up Bueno. Winner by k.o. Richard Grupe.

04. Munich Geiselgasteig: fire in the film studio at the film site in Munich Geiselgasteig completely burnt out one of the large reception halls. Here is one of the last scenes of the film "Playful living" with Brigitte Horney, Axel von Ambesser and Kurt Meisel.
Shortly thereafter, the fire originated in this great decoration when shooting a miniature Fireworks. Fire brigade and workers tried to put out the fire. 17 trains with motor spray came from Munich and the surrounding area.
The Studio was No more to retten-.
The trustee of the Bavaria film art G.m.b.h.. estimates the damage on about 4 to 500,000 DM.
The United efforts of the fire brigade and the workers managed to prevent a spillover of the fire to other buildings.

05. season on the Lake the water's edge is in the character of the bathing season. Just as here in Westerland the large and small resorts have preparing for weeks on the hoped-for onslaught of summer and weekend guests. During the previous bathing season still in the character of the currency changeover, the resorts expect a bathing season on a altgewohntem scale again this year. From the Kurhaus until the private logistics about the Sun and guests on hopes.
The island of Norderney shows a bulky peace picture again. From the coastal steamer, rising one on horse buses and enters the city as comfortable and romantic.
Sea water and swell under roof - for bad weather days.
On beach sailors is a fresh breeze through the sand...
Long-awaited rest days will be enjoyed again extensively.

06. famous Affereien 5 o'clock tea at Schimpansens - a famous attraction of the London Zoo. The presentation is preceded by a months course in table manners. But how behave ape really at the table?
Charlie is slightly nervous. He wants to be not famous. And here the American competition: the Schimpanses of St. Louis with their latest acrobatic numbers.
First: five giant wave on high bar.
And then: Hey - hop! -A new variation in the art of riding.
To conclude: the carousel run on stilts. Even for old circus experts a stuck-up... sensation.

90.000 fans at Stuttgart see VfR Mannheim become German Football Champion
A whole city in the throes of football fever: happy owners of entrance tickets surround the Stuttgart Neckar Stadium; millions sit thrilled at their radio sets. And all because of these 22 contestants, who will play in the finals between Borussia-Dortmund (black shorts) and VfR Mannheim, From the beginning the play is fast and very hard. In the 5th minute the first goal is kicked by Erdmann of Borussia. The score is 1 : 0 for Dortmund. Then comes a time of sharp fighting without highlights or sensation. Both teams play with enthusiasm and passion.
In the 26th minute there is a sudden dramatic moment.
De la Vigne, Mannheim, is fouled and crashes down. The Berlin referee Zacher orders an 11-meter-free kick. Langlotz shoots goalkeeper Rau jumps for the ball - - the situation is saved. The game goes on at the same speed.
Second half: The contestants (and the spectators) get more and more excited. Technique and tactics are forgotton and reckless play begins. Only 16 minutes before the end Löttke, Mannheim, shoots the equalizing goal.
The score is 1 : 1.
A great roar shakes the arena.
The excitement reaches its climax - - like the heat on this sunny day.
Mannheim is steadily attacking, but Erdmann, Dortmund, suddenly gets loose, leaves goalkeeper Jöckel behind, and shoots a goal.
Is this the end? It looks like it: Only 7 minutes to go. But in the last minutes Langlotz, Mannheim, gets the ball from a distance of 18 meters shoots it into the Dortmund goal. The evened score means the prolongation of the and match for an extra period. The recess shows now tired both teams are after this brutal battle of the masters in the terrible heat.
Then ----- in the 109th minute - - the decision comes like lightning. The Mannheimer centre-forward Löttke gets the ball and shoots it from 8 - meters - distance into the goal and scores a 3 : 2 victory for his team. The joy of the spectators knows no bounds.
VfR Mannheim is German Football Champion - after a match, of which in future days people will say: "Do you know, in these days of 1949 ..."

Date of Release:

08.07.1949

Year of Production:

1949

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Commissioned by:

USIS

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German