UFA-Wochenschau 175/1959 01.12.1959

01 Rome: Birthday party at the Vatican Pope Johannes XXIII celebrates his 78th birthday and blesses little wax tablets Agnus Dei in his private chapel. (Takes place every 7 years).
(10 m) 02. Munich: meeting European parliamentarians receive with ladies. Under the present Stoltenberg and wife, Gerstenmaier, Schäffer.
(6 m) 03. food: visit of the Ethiopian Crown Prince Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach at banquets with the Ethiopian Crown Prince ASFA Wossen and wife in the Villa hills.
(9 m) 04. Frankfurt: arrival of new US Ambassador Walter C. Dowling rolls out propeller aircraft. The new U.S. Ambassador Walter C. Dowling descends stairs with 13-jährigem Dachshund Marco Polo.
(8 m) 05. Barcelona: maneuver the VI. Mediterranean fleet radar screen turns on ship. Aircraft carrier Saratoga. Aircraft start. Squadron flight. Bomb release. Landing.
(11 m) 06. Connecticut: nuclear test drive submarine nuclear submarine George Washington on test drive. Rockets are fired under water.
(7 m) 07. New Mexico: parachute jump from a height of 22000 m the American Joe Kittinger enters gondola of balloon, which rises. Jump from 22000 m height with automatic camera.
(13 m) 08 clever and forgetful: the weak link dish loads box chain elevator to pull up. Clever points that each chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Maria wants to not understand it. Both come out of the House. Shepherd chain starts barking you and Maria flees on fire escape because of "the weakest link."
(35 m) 09 USSR: laikas sibling dogs experiments in Soviet space laboratories. Dogs are used in capsules under physical stress. Launch of capsule, turning in centrifuge, crashes in special rockets into space and return to parachute. Dogs after the landing capsule, a very alert, the other dead.
(27 m) 10 Parma: Canary hospital two children with bird cage enter House. Doctor examines and treats the birds.
(17 m) 11 Utrecht: chickens patterns show egg mountain. Chick run. Award-winning chickens and pigeons.
(11 m) 12 Ghana: Prince Philip in Accra colored children behind barbed wire. Children cheer for Prince Philip. Greeting of the Princes.
(11 m) 13 Ghana: the life of indigenous FRA FRAs village of the tribe of the Fra Fra in the Interior of the country. Ball houses made of clay. Natives hide in homes during the visit of white.
(17 m) 14 South Africa: indigenous painter before easel painting painter Vladimir Tretschikoff. Indigenous women and children as a model. Painting.
(23 m) 15 Breslau: pantomime Theatre Theatre pantomime "The swapped heads" based on the novel by Thomas Mann.
(28 m) 16 advent Japan people on the street. Mass products in department stores. Crowded parking lots.
(14 m)

London City Centre is closed to automobiles. People crowding into the shops. Police officer writes tickets. The Mayor of Westminster press button and lights up the Christmas lights in Regent Street.
(15 m)

Germany big fir-tree in department store is set up and decorated. Christmas decorations at a department store. Buyer on escalators. Propagandist loyalist promotional booth introduces sweaters with different excerpts. Cashier. Shoe fitting. Toy carousel. Christmas decoration of 1001 nights. Child and candle.
(55 m)

Title 7, 6 m 78th birthday papst Joh. XXIII. origin: iNcom meeting European parliamentarians Munich camera: Hafner Ethiopian Prince at Krupp origin: special film "AA. NOK pr. in Germany."

Arrival d. new. US Ambassador Dowling camera: powerful maneuvers of the fleet, Barcelona origin: No.-do US nuclear U boat trial run origin: Metro skydiving record Joe Kittinger origin: Metro 'Chain reaction' m. clever & Maria Russian rocket dogs origin: Sovkino Songbird hospital, Parma origin: iNcom chickens, Holland origin: Polygoon Prince Philip in Accra/Ghana origin: Pathé news Ghana village origin: Polkronika painter Treschnikoff with African Images camera: Green peasant pantomime origin: Polkronika Christmas in Japan and England origin: Asahi news, Pathe news advent in Germany camera: Rau final brand 3, 1 m

Current week Chronicle Rome: in Rome Pope Johannes XXIII. celebrated his 78th birthday. In his private chapel, the Holy Father on this occasion blessed that in the Catholic world as the Agnus Dei-famous wax Tablet; a traditional ceremony that every seven years should take place only once.

Munich: 180 parliamentarians from 16 countries to exchange ideas about the future path of the European States met in Munich. The Parliamentary Council aims at creating an economically and politically United Europe.

Food: the Villa had high visit Hill in Essen. Crown Prince ASFA Wossen of Ethiopia and his wife came to a six-day visit to the Federal Republic. The Crown Prince couple is particularly interested industry and economy.

Frankfurt: In Frankfurt, the new American Ambassador to the Federal Republic was expected. The career diplomat Walter C acts as successor to David Bruce. Dowling on its service, constantly accompanied by the Dachshund veteran Marco Polo.
50 kilometers from Barcelona began the maneuvers of the sixth fleet in the Mediterranean. A Spanish delegation followed the course of the exercise on the aircraft carrier Saratoga.

Connecticut: From Connecticut started the American nuclear submarine George Washington for an extended test drive. As most modern achievement of the US Navy's George Washington able to fire missiles under water.

New Mexico: a new skydiving record holder is the 31 American Joe Kittinger. From the gondola of a balloon, which rose 25 km high, the jet fighter pilot risked a free-fall over 20000 meters. He jumped with an automatic camera. The adventure is successful and yet everything hangs by a thread hung.

Laikas siblings has many siblings the dog laika. Her death has provoked the protest of all animal lovers of the Sputnik II in the space capsule, but continue the experiments in the Soviet laboratories.
In all the experiments, we need to explore the physical limits of the organism. The body weight of experimental dogs through the acceleration will be sixfold in a centrifuge.
The dogs are shot over 500 kilometres high into space in special rockets and sometimes they come back.
What can be said always to such attempts, has already been said. But the coincidental combination of two film documents this week gives us pause. -Here the creature is forced to suffer...

Feathered patients and here attempts to free them from suffering. Parma founded a sanatorium for songbirds. It is an institution that was equipped with the most modern tools and under the direction of Professor on the diseases of feathered companions specializing. Medicinal vapours are highlighted against rough throats.
A major expense ranging the medical facilities from the Elektromassage to the X-ray machine, to make a little friend healthy again.
Healthy poultry, that is the pride of our Dutch neighbours for centuries. The egg production in the Netherlands is very satisfactory and the patterns show in Utrecht as a stimulus for all ambitious chicken farmers.
To the international breeding association presented feathered specimens of almost an exotic appeal.

African impressions an exotic world received the Duke of Edinburgh in Accra. The capital city of Ghana had created her Festival garb and all tribal chiefs were rushed up to celebrate her illustrious guest. It will be as difficult for Ghana to become a thoroughly modern State showed us a trip into the Interior of the country, where we removed a village of the almost unknown tribe of FRA-FRA discovered 1000 kilometres from the nearest town. The inhabitants are friendly, but shy. The white man seems to come from another world for them and caution in this case is better than confidence, they hide it in their clay-molded sugar hats that will be certainly as long as the root of the FRA-FRA.
The people of Africa revive the artistic world of the artist Vladimir Tretschikoff, which we met in South Africa. He searches for his models and motifs with the natives and he has a secure look for faces where Tretschikoffs hand gives an almost sophisticated beauty. This noble Lady of the tribe of the Mapoch for example is a short time later under the name "Lady of N' débêsle ' be known. Tretschikoffs pictures are from a peculiarly precise and realistic appeal. His "black and white" became a sensation in the United States.

Swapped heads is also the encounter with the Bresla Theatre, a theatre which has the difficult and rarely become art of pantomime among the musical events of this week. In ever new forms of representation and with novel scenes attempting here to the symbolic image to the blank game.
The theme of the pantomime Theatre is subject to hardly a limitation. Here, the ensemble 'The swapped heads' plays based on a novel by Thomas Mann.

Christmas very much and here, dear audience, we are again in the reality of the year 59 and if you not should have noticed it: we are in advent. The hunt on the 24 December has now widely used. In Japan at least as much as anywhere else. The demand seems to exceed all previously unprecedented this year. The mass industry throws its mass products on the market and how it was to be expected: the demand is enormous.
In London, the Centre for automobile has been blocked. The main shopping streets were declared to the red zone. In the run to the shops, the feared traffic chaos in all circumstances should be avoided. For the London car owners, the advent thus began with complaints and warnings.
But what is advent, without proper Christmas Magic? The Mayor of Westminster presses the button and the Regent Street shines in the glow of 1000 candles. Advent in Germany! And because we are stable enough to consider the star of Bethlehem, not only as a decoration piece we must allow us confidently to exploit the possibilities of our purse to the tilt. Shops are prepared for any onslaught, the gifts are the most important part of the Christmas festivities and about: buys, people buying, because the advent is a time of reflection.
The pre-Christmas world has become a world full of great and inspired decorations, a world that almost prefigures all dreams. If we but do in these days our children through the splendour of this backdrop, perhaps still the thought that it is not the setting alone, which makes the event the advent comes us.

Date of Release:

01.12.1959

Year of Production:

1959

Camera Work:

Hafner, Anton; Rau, Kurt; Starke, Rainer; Grünbauer

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH

Source Foreign Material:

Polygon; Asahi News; Incom; No-Do; Polkronika; Sovkino; Metro; Pathé News

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German