UFA-Wochenschau 31/1957 27.02.1957

01 Copenhagen: Start of the route Copenhagen-Tokyo over the North Pole band marches on. SAS airline over the North Pole will be opened. Propeller engine starts. Radar screen rotates. Aerial photography icebergs. Ground stations to monitor the flight. Weather balloon. Compass fails at the North Pole. Stopover in Anchorage / Alaska. Refuelling of fuel. After a 30 hour flight, Fujiama comes into sight. (Shortening of the aircraft to 22 hours).

02. Bremen: Inauguration of a House of the German Brotherhood Monument: the Bremen town musicians, the Roland. The House of the brotherhood is to be a meeting place for East and West. Senator Nolting Hauff holds speech. Handover of the keys. Refugees get help.

03. United States: an audition Ollenhauer Erich Ollenhauer speaking students in California in the University Berkely to 6000 students on German issues. Audience, great. Clapping.

04. Paris: Meeting of the common market of Eurafrica heads of Government and Foreign Ministers of 6 coal countries upon arrival. Spaak, Adenauer, by Brentano. Conference table. French industry Minister Lemaire visited Algeria. Stepping off the stand. Visit an oil drilling site. Oil flame.

05th Cairo: Guest performance of Soviet people the policeman Cairo's cityscape. Performance by folk dance groups.

06. Syria: training exercises of the army and the female militia of infantry soldiers. Running through the trenches. Battles. Female soldier with a rifle. Marching on. The weapons are collected after the exercise.

07. Paris: Conversion of fashion in the past decades fashion of the 1920s. The new spring fashion in 1957 with company clothes Charleston dresses from 1922.

08 London: In box, girl and doll are fair. Girl comes out and takes the doll's hand. Dolls washing machine. Steerable car, railway, plane.

09. British H bomb attempt in the South Australian desert breakdown from NDW 370/1: aerial view of the test field. Drive tanks. Vehicles are set up. People puppets are placed. Carrier aircraft starts. Bomb release. Observers on the edge of the goal box turn away. Mushroom cloud. A second machine flies in the Atomic cloud. The bomb crater. Samples are taken the field. Destruction everywhere (slightly different cut).

Title: 1st SAS-Polar flight to Tokyo origin: film industry inauguration of the German House of Bremen camera: student Ollenhauer speaks before U.S. students camera: Luppa Eurafrica - 6 Power Conference Paris origin: Eclair, Gaumont sovie Folk art ensemble i. Cairo origin: Sovkino exercises d. Syrian. Army + f. Militia camera: Seib the fashion of the last decades origin: Gaumont British Toy Fair origin: Pathe news Brit. H bomb tests typically austral. Desert origin: Pathe news final mark:

Flight over the pole "began a new era in the history of civil aviation in Copenhagen. The regular line service over the North Pole to the far East was opened. The new line is the shortest and fastest connection between Japan and Europe, the flight time will be shortened to 22 hours.
And this is the travel route. During the entire flight, the machine is secured by radar. Radar anywhere, on land and water.
All weather stations in the Arctic are enabled to perform the flight without any risk.
Quietly, the machine follows its course. You fly over the area, which was still virgin territory 60 years ago, at a time when a Fridtjof Nansen lived for 3 years alone with a companion in the ice desert.
New navigation instruments were developed. The traditional compass is useless in the Arctic. The pole is covered, the message goes to all points of the compass. The plane chasing with 560 km hour the city anchorage in Alaska, the only intermediate station of the flight, to. The fuel tanks are filled, then headed towards Japan, and after a total 30-stündigem flight, the Fujiyama greets the pioneers of aviation.

The "German House" his determination was handed over to Bremen in Bremen, Germany. It should be a place of encounter between West and East Germany. Senator Nolting Hauff gave the ceremonial speech, then was presented with the key. Private visitors from the East zone are cared for here. Refugees is helping stood to the side. Also in arranging sponsorships for the needy, the founder of the work see a task.

United States were present, about 6,000 students in the University of California Berkeley, the SPD Chairman Erich Ollenhauer gave a speech about German issues. Ollenhauer was the peculiarity of Germany's situation in connection with the situation in Europe. His lecture was extremely lively applause.

In Paris, Paris/North Africa the heads of Government and Foreign Ministers of the six coal and Steel Union discussed the formation of a common market.
The still controversial project envisages the formation of a Customs Union as well as the development of the non-European possessions of the contractual partner.
Greatest importance now North Africa. French industry Minister Lemaire attended the French colony of Algeria.
He focused on the petroleum test holes. The holes were rich oil of excellent quality in great depth, Eurafrica project seems to take shape.

Cairo Meanwhile continued their offensive of smiles in the cultural field the Soviet Union, she sent an excellent ensemble of folk art to Egypt.

Syria the Syrian army Get up due to the tense political situation in the Middle East in the center of attention. The UFA team attended a training facility of the infantry on his trip through the Middle East.
There is compulsory military service for any old man in Syria. The service period is one year. During this time are the soldiers with all modern weapons and fighting methods familiar.
The image of female soldiers is strange to our eyes. But the women don't look, that the female militia only out of necessity was born.
After moving through the city, the exercises of the day are completed. The weapons are submitted again, but the neutral spectators remains poorer an Oriental illusion.

All for the Lady seems to much sexy, sweet femininity as such even if they are seen during the twenties today something strange. Problem no. 1 was Of course also at the time fashion, just like today. Just, Paris 1957 aired the Sahay of the mystery of the spring fashion. The rage of the year 1922 sounds different than that of the year 1957 its harmony but not unharmonic, of dissonance no trace.

ImParadies of the children two seemingly lifeless dolls of the box being tired and visited a large London Toy Fair.
Here were all dreams fulfilled, for future house mother, as well as for PS enthusiasts.
The dads were Of course also represented. Her main interest was the modern technique, interpreted in the toy.

World enemy No. 1: the H-bomb not playing with the technology, but their control requires the reality as we saw the footage of nuclear weapons testing in the Australian desert. The effect of the hydrogen bomb to be tested on civilian and military objects.
The bomber with the most terrible weapons of mankind starts and throws the bomb a short time later.
The evaluation of the experiment begins, special aircraft bring samples of the radioactive cloud. Any attempt brings the same realization: the hydrogen bomb compressed the fate of mankind in One minute, maybe in One minute before noon!

Date of Release:

27.02.1957

Year of Production:

1957

Camera Work:

Luppa; Seib, Gerhard; Schüler, Richard

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH

Source Foreign Material:

Eclair; Gaumont; Filmindustrie; Sovkino; Pathé News

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German