Welt im Film 124/1947 10.10.1947

01 streiflichter from Germany a. Berlin: iron Lung in the fight against polio doctors before the portal of Auguste Viktoria hospital. American doctors with an iron lung for the fight against of polio. Iron lung. Patients in iron lungs. Mrs. Clay speaks with girl who cured was released from the hospital.
(29 m) b. Cologne: Rhine clearance destroyed Rhine bridge in front of the Cologne Cathedral. Clean-up and removal of damaged parts of the bridge. Jib crane. Divers. Pumps. Excavators bring debris from the river Rhine.
(33 m) c. Hamburg: event of the magic circle magician bowing on the stage, totally. Spectators, half-close. Magician with Assistant conjures up pigeon in the burning vessel. Wizard makes bird cage. Audience clapping, half-close. The magician Marvelli in his workshop. He conjures up with cards. He introduces the rope trick. Marvelli with the floating bar.
(43 m) 02 sport a. Brussels: football international match Belgium - England 2:5 scenes, totally. English player shoots 0 spectators in the stands the 1: totally. English player on the ball. Gate. Belgian player shoots the goal 2: arms raise 1 Viewer, total. Mathews plays two opponents, gives the edge to the Center and goal. The English players go to the cabin.
(27 m) Munich: trotting in Daglfing parking lot full of bikes before the race. People in front of the Subdials. Cashier with banknotes. Lorries blowing up the railway. Hans Frömming clothes in the locker room. Kraus, Munich, next to the Trotter Manitu, half-close. Onslaught of the horses. The Nr. 12, fighter pilot, with Hans Frömming in the Sulky. Start. The horses in the race. In the final sprint, advancing fighters and climbs from Manitou. Hans Frömming with wreath, close to half in the Sulky.
(47 m) 03 Yehudi Menuhin plays in Berlin Menuhin, half close, on his arrival at the airport in Berlin. Sergiu Celibidache greets him, half-close. The front of the marble House. Film poster of Paganini. Menuhin plays to a special screening of the film. Audience clapping. Menuhin played Bach's Chaconne, half-close. Menuhin bows after game. Audience clapping.
(44 m) 4 new from technology a. United States: aircraft - speed - record nozzle of a Douglas aircraft, large. Launch of the aircraft to the speed record and flight. Cameraman swings with the camera. Aircraft contrails. (Record 1056 km/h).
(26 m) b. Germany: robot - planting machine machine with six men passes field. Men into machine that automatically plants and pouring plants.
(19 m) c. micro - radio transmitter and receiver girl next to Kleinstempfänger. Kleinstempfänger in addition to portable radio. Man speaks in Kleinstsender.
(20 m) 05. people without a home refugees with luggage. Illegal border crossers run box and next to embankment. Women with children. Russion sign zone. Refugees go in detention over sodden ground. Registration. Boy soldier hat. Food output. Refugees in the community room. You eat out of cans. Slums. Children play between shacks. Old railway carriage as apartments. Refugees burn bricks made of clay and build houses. Refugee family on the window.
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01 streiflichter from Germany: a. polio, Berlin the Auguste Viktoria hospital in Berlin is the heart of the fight against spinal polio occurred in epidemic form.
Several specialists in the fight against of this dangerous disease came to Berlin from America. They brought with them four so-called "iron lungs".
Berlin's Mayor Luise Schröder visited the sick, be treated with the "iron lung".
This collection contains a motor that drives a blower. The bellows causes the breaths in patients whose respiratory muscles is paralyzed. So the organism in the critical stage of the disease is still functional.
Mrs. Clay, the wife of the American commander-in-Chief in Germany has donated food for the sick. Here, Mrs. Clay congratulates a girl who healed is dismissed after vierwöchentlicher treatment.

b. Rhine clearance as extensive as important clearance work on the Rhine is well go ahead. Works on over 800 km length extends under the waterway Directorate Duisburg.
The remains of 15 destroyed bridges must be removed; In addition, there are around 10,000 tons of steel and 40,000 tons of stone and concrete in the stream bed.
After clearing the shore authorities could be started with the reconstruction of the bridge, going everywhere now, well forward. The cleaning-up operations are operated by all technical means; Floating cranes, divers shafts, excavator and special devices To find use.
About 1500 sunken ships, including large passenger steamer, blokieren the ports and FSUs, and impede the transport of coal and food.
The works are for the entire economy on Rhine and Ruhr of vital importance. Their cost is approximately 50,000,000. The first stage successes noticeable already in the revival of transport and industry.

(c). Wizard when meet the members of the magic circle to an event - such as here in Hamburg, then there is Of course a magical evening.
A little bit of legerdemain, and the amateur magician creates a fairy land where things go through the strangest transformations from the sober world of today.
And now attention on the cage. The famous magician Marvelli is a model of this talented amateurs. In his modern witches's kitchen he softens a little, the finger before the large numbers of its repertoire make the audience with sheer mystery.
For example, the rope trick. A piece of rope - it lives and knotting themselves - and to the snake.
Caution - snappy!
Or the floating bar. He obeys the slightest hint of his master, and leads a life of their own without gravity. Finally, the bar like many things at wizards in the balance remains.

02. sport: a. soccer football international match England against Belgium in Brussels. Before 70,000 spectators, the English eleven (white shirt) shows great football. Run only the combinations, and lacks also not the safe shot on goal.
It was the first goal for England.
And always new attacks roll in the game half of the Belgian. A flank to the Center - goal for England.
Belgium comes into play, then get a goal.
But England besieged the Belgian gate further.
Mortensen gives to Mathews - Mathews plays two opponents.
A cross - head ball - gate!
Sure, England won with 5-2 goals.

the directions to the greatest trotters of the post-war period in München Daglfing was b. trotting in "daglfing" under the sign of the gasoline shortage. At this price, the best, the best Trotter from Berlin, North and South Germany were at the start.
The race equipped with 150,000 mark was held in record sales at the Tote in front of 20,000 spectators.
From Berlin, Hans Frömming had come, one of the best German riders. He controls the horse fighter. His rival, Kraus, Munich, mostly typed horse Manitu. The parade of horses No. 12,Frömming with fighter jets.
The start. Fighter has 80 meters set to overtake Manitu 60 m. In the first round of the 2,600-metre track, "Approach" ahead of "Happy hunting" and "Intus".
The picture has changed in the second round. It leads Leo Bush. Now comes "Fighter" in the second place. In a quick thrust fighter secures the tip - Manitu comes up more and more to go. But fighter WINS safely with a half Pferdelänge. The victory of Frömmings in the price of the best was a motorcycling feat.

03 the great violinist plays Menuhin in Germany Yehudi Menuhin is after long years for a tour to Berlin returned.
On the airfield of Tempelhof, he was greeted by the conductor Sergiu Celibidache.
Menuhin gave several concerts in Berlin.
The yield of all events was determined by the artist for charity. Yehudi Menuhin was also in a festive special performance of the English "Paganini" film in the Berlin Marmorhaus. He had taken over the violin part in the shooting of this film. The enthusiastic audience the acclaimed guest played Bach's Chaconne with the completion of the master.

04. new technology: a. aircraft world record is this American Douglas engine jet propelled - at least at the time - the fastest airplane in the world. In the series of world records loose each other major Hubbardore put the for the time being. He started in California on a three kilometer-long measuring base to a world record setting experiment. Like an arrow the machine flies - about 1000 kilometers hour, almost as fast as the sound. The new record: 1056 km/h, a service that allows all once dreamed records with nozzle Gebrause behind.

(b). Plant machine according to the record in the air - a record performance on the Earth! This new robot planter, a German invention, makes operation with only six men as much as 30 to 40 workers; placing the plants in gripping devices, and the machine lowers them into the ground - at the same time while the plant is watered. The distance in which the plants are used is regulated according to the driving speed.
This machine can put 9,000 plants per hour - a performance of great practical significance for agriculture.

c. radio technology and here the latest news in the field of radio technology: transmitter and receiver in Liliput style. In America, these new devices were developed, with which for example can be quickly summoned doctors, lost mountain climbers found, etc.
The receiver has four tiny tubes - a portable radio in the comparison with the new apparatus. To send a tube is sufficient - it goes comfortably in a lipstick holder. In the background of one of the usual channels. The battery is the size of a cigarette pack. Now the microphone... the radio station in the back of the hand is ready and works like the great. Small - but powerful!

05. people without a home the refugee flow, which pours forth beyond the borders of Germany for two years, has Not yet ebbed away. The illegal border crossers who infiltrate outside any regulated return in the Western zones of Germany come to the 10 million duly settled out in recent times increasingly.
Alone or in groups you are looking for the black trails over the green border. The transition is only a small part. The detention center built specially for capturing these frontier workers are crowded. First, the registration is done here. The future fate of these illegal refugees is still the subject of pending negotiations. Also for the dignified Regressioned, the barracks of the transit camp are the first resting point after crossing the border. The housing and food conditions are often distressingly primitive. Families with children and detached refugees are sometimes with patients; It lacks the capacity, to build new and especially winter barracks.
Most of the refugees who came to Germany in town and country have been housed after staying in the transit camp.
But dwell in the accommodation, which wove together they are after the meeting on German soil from boards, cardboard and sheet metal strip itself.
For them, these provisionally erected huts became the second home. Also old railway carriages are used as apartments. Again a piece of furniture or an annex is made from all possible waste, to make life more bearable. Other refugees access to help themselves by forming, as here in Württemberg, clay bricks and build with this mud-brick houses. There are Germans from Bačka, who built their farms in Romania in this way.
The mud bricks are not burned, but air dried. The foundations of the houses are built from rock. Already the first houses. More are under construction.
Nomads today create new homes and a new home.

01. News [...]

a. Infantile Paralysis, Berlin
The Auguste Victoria Hospital in Berlin is the centre of the battle against infantile paralysis.
Several specialists of this new epidemic disease come from America bringing four "Iron Lungs" with them.
Luise Schröder, Berlin's burgomaster, visits the patients who are treated with this "Iron Lung".
This apparatus has a motor which drives a pair of bellows. Thus, the patients whose lungs are paralysed can breathe and the organism is able to function even during the critical stage of the disease Mrs. Clay, wife of the American Commander - in - chief, has donated food for the patients.
Here, she welcomes a girl who was healed after a four-weeks treatment

b. Clearing the Rhine
The extensive and important operations to clean the river bed of the Rhine are proceeding satisfactorily. Directed by the Duisburg "Wasserstrassen-direktion" the operations extend over more than 800 kilometres distance.
The remains of 15 destroyed bridges have to be removed; besides that 10.000 tons of steel and 40.000 tons of stones and concrete are still in the river. Only after the clearing of the banks could the reconstruction of the bridges be startes. It is for advanced by now. All kinds of technical devices aid the operations: swimming-cranes, diving-shafts, baggers and other special equipment. More than 1.500 wrecked ships and steamers block the harbours and the transportation of coal and food. These operations are of vital importance and will cost approximately 50.000.000 Marks. The first results already show their mark in the increase of traffic and industrial activities.

c. Magicians
When the members of the "Magic Circle" have a meeting, as here in Hamburg, they, of course, have an enchanting night. A bit of jugglery and the amateur magician creates a wonderland out of to-days prosaic world. The model of these skilled amateurs is the famous Marvelli. He first makes his fingers flexible before displaying his mysterious tricks. For instance the living rope: It lives, knots itself and becomes a snake. You better watch it! Or the magic wand - which obeys the slightest nod and wink of its master.

02. Sport

a. Football
Football-match England-Belgium in Brussels. Before 70.000 spectators the British team (white shirts) presents a great performance. They show excellent team-work and soon score the first goal for England. Attack after attack rolls into the field of the Belgians. Another goal for England, The Belgium gains and scores one goal. Mortensen kicks to Mathews - - Mathews passes two opponents - goal! England won easily with 5:2 goals.

b. Trotting Race, Daglfing
Demonstrating the acute gasoline-shortage the parking place for the greatest post-war trotting-race in Munich-Daglfing shows one vast conglomeration of bycicles. The Prize of the Best was competed for by trotters from Berlin, North- and South-Germany. The 150.000 Mark race produced a record turnover at the tote. 20.000 fans attended. Hans Frömming, one of Germany's best drivers, came from Berlin with the horse "Kampfflieger". His rival, Kraus, Munich, with Manitu, the heavily betted favourite. The parade of the horses. Nr. 12, Frömming with "Kampfflieger". The start. "Kampfflieger" has to make up for 80 meters handicap. In the first round of the 2.600 meters distance "Anflug" is first, followed by "Weidmannsheil" and "Intus". The second round brings a change: "Leo Bush" leads, "Kampfflieger" taking second place. In a quick spurt "Kampfflieger" wins the lead - and although "Manitu" gains more and more "Kampfflieger" comes in fir[...] with a half length. Frömming's victory in the Prize of the Best was a master piece of driving skill and technique.

03. Menuhin plays in Germany
After many years the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin returned to Berlin for a guest-performance. He was welcomed by director Sergiu Celibidache on Tempelhof airfield. Menuhin held several concerts in Berlin. The returns of his performances were all donated to charity. Yehudi Menuhin also participated in a gala performance of the English "Paganini"-film in Berlin Marmorhaus. He had the part of the violinist in this feature. Before enthusiastic spectators the celebrated guest played Bach's Chaconne with masterful perfection.

04. Technical News:

a. Airplane world-record
This American yet-propelled Douglas machine is - - at present - - the world's fastest plane. Mayor Hubbardore temporarily put a full stop to the series of one world record after the other. He took off in California on a 3 kilometer long test course. His plane thunders along like an arrow - at a speed of more than 1.000 kilometres per hour - - almost as fast as sound. The new record: 1.056 kilometres per hour - - a result which leaves behind all former record-expectations in a cloud of dust.

b. Planting Machine
After the record in the air - a record on the ground. This new Robot= Plantingmachine - a German invention - does with 6 people the work of 30 to 40 men. The plants are placed in the soil and simultaneously watered. The distance is regulated by the driving speed. Approximately 9.000 plants per hour can be planted by this machine - an invention of great practical importance for agriculture.

c. Liliput-Radio
And here the latest invention in Radio: transmitter and receiver in Liliput shape. With this new set, developed in America, a doctor can be called quickly, lost mountaineers be found, etc. The receiver has 4 little tubes - here a trunk wireless set for comparison. The sender has only 1 tube - like a lipstick. In the background is an ordinary radio station. The battery is put on and it works like clockwork.

05. People without Home
The stream of refugees, which pours into Germany since two years, is still continuing. The 10 million number of orderly transferred refugees is still being increased by others who illegally cross the border into the Western Zones of Germany. Singly and in groups they pass over the "green" border. Only a small part of them succeed in getting across. The camps established for these people are over crowded. First every arrival is registered. The future of these illegal refugees is still subject of negotiations. For the other refugees the barracks are the first rest centre, too. Living and feeding conditions are often very primitive. Families with children and single persons often have to live in one room with sick people. There are no means to build new and above all winter proof barracks. After passing through the temporary camps most of the refugees were settled in towns or in the country. But some of them still live in the shelters they made themselves out of wood, paper, and tin - and which beame their second home. Old railway ears, too, were utilised for the same purpose. Again and again all kinds of discarded material are used to make furniture or additional structures to create a more comfortable life. Other refugees help themselves by forming bricks from loam and build houses with it. They are Germans from the Batschka, Rumania, who built their farms in the same way there. The loam - bricks are dried in the air. The foundations are built of rocks. The first houses are ready, more are being built. The Nomads of to-day build themselves new houses and, thus, a new home.

Date of Release:

10.10.1947

Year of Production:

1947

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Commissioned by:

USIS

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German