UFA-Dabei 950/1974 08.10.1974

01 Hamburg: Week of the bed pedestrian. Arnzeimittelfabrik. Pills. Alsterhaus in Hamburg. Two beds are situated on the Jungfernstieg. Walton (German newsreel) asks passers-by about their sleep habits original sound with microphone. Passers-by in the bed above make as they sleep in the bed. Former Mayor H. soft man also looks to.

02. Kiel: launching "Westphalia" and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Mrs. Hannelore Schmidt brass band. Mrs Hannelore Schmidt and Helmut Schmidt. The ship totally. Recordings on the deck. Helmut Schmidt speaks, o-ton: "it has Yes a deeper meaning that we build such giant pots under German flag... Will and slowly is by no means wants to shrink time, that we, at least to a small extent, make us independent from the major international or multinational oil corporations says how one today I roll their positive, although I also say that they are quite accessible here and there of criticism. ... Well prepared, we are well prepared for the next few years. We are well prepared in terms of employment. And you can assume that it stays that way. Here is no reason to hang your head. On the contrary. Here is a reason to look forward with serenity and with a certain degree of inner serenity of the future and to work towards. Work must of course also. Mrs. Hannelore Schmidt speaks at the baptism ceremony, quote: "I baptize you in the name"Westphalia"and wish you and your team always good ride and three inch water under the keel" on the first roll the bottle doesn't break.

03. Hamburg: City Portrait Hamburg breakdowns from El Mundo 620 / 1 - here a little longer. The towers of Petri and Jakobi Church behind the trees. Short cuts: People. Knut Kiesewetter sings. Head of a bird ostrich. Port workers. Women at shopping. Sailing on the Alster. Aerial photographs of the city. The clock of the Michels. Deichstraßen houses and other old houses. Upper middle class homes. City Nord. Pöseldorf. Various shots of the harbour. Michel. Unloading in the port. Fish market with banana seller. Blankenese, Elbe, Planten un Blomen. City skyline behind the Inner Alster Lake. Striptease dancer in St. Pauli.

Week of the bed camera: Rieck, Seib launched d.WESTFALEN/Kiel (with Chancellor Schmidt) camera: Rieck, Seib City Portrait Hamburg camera: Rieck, l. at the beginning and end of total length

In society: citizens appear daily bed pleasures 74 15 million restless to work. At least 6 million access to the products of the pharmaceutical industry, to chemically weigh in to sleep. The number of German citizens who sleep badly because they rest in the wrong beds is unknown. Only bed conscious people find healthy sleep - an insight which sought to popularize industrial and trade these days with a week of the bed. We moved with and producing worked in two beds on the Hamburg Jungfernstieg Hamburg citizens ' sleep habits. Our first surprise: the otherwise buttoned Hanseatic League entered the beds without fear, to publicly demonstrate their personal sleep practices.
Adventure area bed: Hamburg intimate variations on a nationwide issue. Our first interim report: the worse the bed, the more sleep tricks are needed. Even former Mayor Weichmann, the crowds that hoped-for new Matrazentips, mingled for a short time.
(this includes interviews with passers-by)

This policy: Chancellor contra multinationals wife Hannelore Schmidt was godmother, and her husband Helmut provided for the political painting. With the 'Westphalia', a 326-metre tanker of the super class, the State VEBA AG is to set a foot in the door of the international oil business according to the words of the Chancellor. Also in Kiel played the Chancellor done the role of the maker of the service.
'It has Yes a deeper meaning that we build such giant pots under a German flag.' 'That is now time that we, at least to a small extent, make us independent from the major international or multinational oil corporations, whose positive role I will not shrink although I also say that they are quite accessible here and there of criticism says as it is today.' ' We are well prepared for the next few years. We are well prepared in terms of employment.' ' And you can assume that it stays that way. Here is no reason to hang your head. On the contrary. Here is a reason to look forward with serenity and with a certain degree of inner serenity of the future and to work towards. Work must of course also.'

Mrs Hannelore Schmidt: "I baptize you in the name of 'Westphalia' and wish you and your team always good ride and three inch water under the keel."

This leisure: Vacation in the city of Hamburg - here at home of jazz musicians such as the engineer, the dock workers or that profession, the by always enriched the flair of the city to a piquant note. The Michel - the Tower of St. Michael's Church - is the dog tag of his town for the born hamburger. After the great fire of 1906 he was rebuilt immediately. Hamburg hold on tradition. Her business acumen resigns when it comes to reserve a place of the past in the present. But the present dominated. Modern business and administration buildings dominate the cityscape. Practical reason and sober sense of acquisition: with these properties the 1.8 million hamburger made their city the richest region of the European Community. But the Idyll also claimed her cookies - for example in Pöseldorf district, at the edge of the Alster. -Hamburg's lifeline is the port - for almost 800 years of Terminal and storage space for world trade goods of all kinds, today also overseas container services endpoint. Every year 20000 ships bound for the largest German port. The fish market - every Sunday morning at 6: 00 popular meeting point for revellers and idle. A hearty feeding and flea market in the orbit of the port. Blankenese, the suburb on the Elbe slopes: Quarter of rich and retire of retired pilots and captains who sit on the banks and move their farewell to the sea every day. Also this is Hamburg: information and communication space of übernationalem rank. The large Congress Centre is located in the heart of the city and in the countryside, no German city has so much green areas such as Hamburg. The Hamburger itself are just starting to discover their trade, industrial and port city as a leisure landscape.

Date of Release:

08.10.1974

Year of Production:

1974

Camera Work:

Labudda; Rieck, Hans Jürgen; Seib, Gerhard

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German