Die Zeit unter der Lupe 727/1963 29.12.1963

01 World press photos - exhibition: press photos in the hag. Themes: Child with boxing gloves. Older gentleman with medicine ball. Weight-lifter. Head of an ostrich. Prince Bernhard. Twistender priest. Feet and hips of young girls. Smiling faces. Head of a priest. Smiling Negro children. Black Mare with a white foal. Rider photographed before the jump, facial expression from the front. Aircraft on a roof of houses. Native behind barbed wire. Refugees, the American Malcolm Brown with the prize. His image: The burning Buddhist monk.

02. ship disaster Laconia - indistinct images of the luxury cruise ship in distress. Fire on the ship.

03. spill at Los Angeles - aerial photos of flooded land (indistinct). Water in the streets. Car stand in the water. The destroyed dam, debris of houses, Schlammstrassen. People stand outside their destroyed houses. A machine pushes the mud out here. The residents move into higher ground undamaged possessions.

04. Departure of Erhard's after the United States - Erhard and Schröder at the airfield. Erhard (large). Erhard goes in addition to Mende. Boeing 707, major setting of the hull. Lufthansa machine to start.

05. passes East Berlin - see UFA 388. The same settings. Deviations only: visitors to the wall tomb with flowers and some other settings wall.

06. Johnson before the UN - Johnson speaks before the United Nations. (O) half-close. Topic; End of the cold war 07 ski jumping East West precipitates in Oberstdorf)-ski jumper comes from the ski jump, departs and jumps. Georg Thoma jumps and crashes. Max Bolkart jump. The winner Dieter Neuendorf (Thuringia) jumps.

Title brand 4.6 m moments world-press-photos origin: Polygoon Lakonia disaster origin: vis news spill at Los Angeles origin: Metro focus departure of Erhard's after the United States camera: Basic passes East Berlin camera: Pahl Johnson before the United Nations origin: Metro sports ski jumping (East West excretion Oberstdorf) camera: Vlasdeck, Hafner, o Connor final brand 3.0 m

Moments: memories are diverse in these days at the year end. These images of a traditional exhibition have arrived from the Hague. It is the best press photos are selected from among the tens of thousands, 1963 offering on the tables of newsrooms around the world to publish. Under the compulsion of the topicality and committed a day event, yet often interpret the situation of the people of our time. From the evocative gesture of a cleric to the unbiased laughter in children's faces the photo to fix the ephemeral moment and to characterize the highlights of events and sensations can the expression scale of these images as no other means. But for the past year, the the Tragig and the dark side of reality gave priority, are those images that require no interpretation. The Americans Malcon Browne was awarded for the best press photo. His picture accompanied the news of political struggle in South Vietnam all over the world. But while become pictorial moments for a year mosaic condense, new disasters in the last days of 1963 let the world sit up. With over 1,000 people at Borg, the Greek cruise ship "Lakonia" fell in flames. Despite the salvage operations in the vicinity of cruising vessels, the Christmas journey took a tragic end here for more than 120 lives to Madeira. The population of water mass in security could bring only as a result of timely maintenance at a break of only 20-year-old dam in Los Angeles. The work of destruction - 77 minutes lasted a moment only, when you consider that a suburban district with approximately 6,000 inhabitants was flooded, and a loss of tens of millions of dollars. Our American colleagues followed the path that the floods had taken from a helicopter. And so it appeared: A 30 meter high triangle had freed the way for 1.2 million cubic meters of water. Back the wreckage of 250 destroyed houses were covered by a blanket of dirty Brown mud, cheap reconstruction loan will help soften the material damage. Only the inhabitants of the higher villas and bungalows was granted to await the new year in a familiar environment.

Focus on: two encounters which, their political sign also may be so distinctive will be acting up for the Germans in East and West are In the spotlight of this week. Federal Chancellor Erhard, accompanied by Foreign Minister Schröder, flew in the United States, where he was received as a first foreign statesman by President Johnson for confidential talks. The favourable political climate between Washington and Bonn is a solid foundation for a fruitful discussion of Germany and Berlin question. The cruel reality of the wall seemed bathed in an auspicious light, as the residents of West Berlin were allowed to apply for permission to celebrate a reunion with their families in East Berlin after more than 800 days: "how long have you been here?" "29 hours. Yesterday, seven hours and with - and at night around 12 to 12 noon "-"as the people here are. You can at all don't adjust themselves, what is going on here." "The day before yesterday, I've been 5 hours, 3 hours yesterday and today I am since 12: 30". "And who go over there?" "I have over my two siblings and grandchildren and my nieces and nephew." Over 200 Soviet zonal postal officials were employed to deal with the pass bureaucracy. She completed the so-called Act of humanity in West Berlin schools. Up to the date of this report, the right was admitted to 840,000 passes that families that were torn apart for years, should meet for a few hours. The joy and hope of which for which the trail was released through the wall, could not daürber but also in these days hide the fact that the system of injustice donned the mask of humanity only to enhance his lack of reputation. It debunked itself once more as it answered a 18jährigen from Neubrandenburg trying to cross the wall with fatal shooting to West Berlin. The family, which we support in the eastern sector of the city, according to Pankow, knew nothing of the crime. Infinite joy but also the pain of years of separation combined with the experience of seeing again: "I have already half-an-hour before the gate ' stood out, and how they subsequently, did not, that was a bit different." "I am very pleased that I could see you again my children and above all our dear little grandchild." 17 days, in which to approved temporary family happiness in the shadow of a murder, have to be aware that the wall has remained the symbol of the cold war. - And yet a glimmer of hope and confidence received us at the end of the year, as the man who has declared responsibility for the future of the divided Germany, called in his appeal to the United Nations for a peaceful revolution for the benefit and to the dignity of mankind. With all forcefulness, President Johnson that the United States will do everything, says a cold war for once to finish: "the United States of America [...]" .] "agents to see the cold war end, we wants to see it end once and for all."

Ski jumping: A sporting highlight at the end of the year the best German special crack rotor in Oberstdorf met - to determine the four best for the all-German team at the Olympic Games in addition to Olympic champion Helmut Recknagel. Georg Thoma had with the number 29, one of the big hopes in the West German team in the first elimination round pitch. His fall at the third jump decided on its placement in the midfield. The athletes from Thuringia secured huge bounce and the precise attitude during the flight and the ten first places seven the Ore mountains. But from the first round to Max Bolkart, who is at home on this Hill in Oberstdorf, one of their strongest competitors. The result of this crack was 75 meters and the viewers already saw a victory of their local heroes. But then followed the last jump of the Tajammul Dieter Neuendorf. He clinched first place with a distance of 77 meters. But first, the overall result of the four-jump competitors decides a tickets to Innsbruck.

Date of Release:

29.12.1963

Year of Production:

1963

Camera Work:

Grund; Hafner, Anton; Oelsner; Pahl, Georg; Vlasdeck, Willy

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH (Hamburg)

Source Foreign Material:

Polygon; Vis News; Metro

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German