Deutschlandspiegel 205/1971 24.09.1971

01 Kiel Schilksee: Vorolympischer sailing test waving flags from all over the world, great. Kiel-Schilksee Olympic construction site. Cityscape Kiel with road sign Olympic site. Road junction at entrance to Kiel with traffic. Sailboats in Schilksee. Sailing on their yachts at the exit. The Olympic village. Exterior shots of the buildings with balconies and interiors, living spaces, kitchen. Bow of sailing yacht cuts through the water, great. Sailing Regatta. Sailboats, total. Sailors far from the boat hanging when manoeuvring. Bungalows of the Olympic village. Sailing boats with colorful spiders acres. U-turns on buoy. Sails flapping in the wind.

02. Berlin: framework contract of the occupying powers - Berlin agreement the Council building. Flags of the four occupying powers in the building. Reporter front entrance. Cityscape Berlin, total, in the foreground the Gedächtniskirche. The Avus. Map of Berlin with access roads from the West. Border control point on the road. Train traffic. Aircraft flies low over rooftops. Onlookers outside the Council building. The ambassadors of the four occupying powers in signing of the Berlin agreement. The four ambassadors in succession in the picture, big: "end well - all good." Zone limit signs: You are now leaving British sector - warning, you are about to leave West Berlin - you are leaving the American sector - vous quittez le secteur Français. Berlin wall. Border of the GDR. Cameras and border post on the wall. The Brandenburg Gate. The Kurfürstendamm with passers-by. Subway station Kurfürstendamm. Street vendors with jewelry on the street. Balconies of old buildings. Garden party in the Bellevue Palace. The hosts, Gustav Heinemann and Hilda Heinemann, half-close. Egon Bahr, great. Sausage Grill. Berlin beer glasses. Car of the negotiator of the West Berlin Senate passes through wall passage. Palais Schaumburg. Right of way by car. Secretary of State Michael Kohl, DDR, climbs out of the car and is welcomed. Cabbage enters the Palais Schaumburg. GDR stander at Mercedes.

03. Heidelberg: Jazz days the Heidelberg Castle and the old Neckar bridge. Saxophone, screen-filling. US saxophonist plays with band in the Heidelberg Castle. Close main street. Tram runs. Church. Tourists sightseeing in the Chateau. Settings of the Castle. The Castle courtyard. Panoramic view from the Castle Hill to the Neckar. Souvenir stand with postcards. The old University. The former Pedellhaus with the lockup and many writings on the walls. Historic student restaurant. Students and students at the celebrations. Jazz saxophonist, drummer, pianist at the concert. The Neckar bridge with lanterns At night.

04. Sauerland: parachuting skydivers before flying their parachutes put together. Camera is packed. Parachute puts on helmet camera is attached to the side that. Sports plane taking off. The pilot. The aircraft flying. Skydivers to jump from the plane. Footage of the jump in slow motion in free fall. Close-up shots of the jumpers during the leap. Facial skin blowing and distorted face. Groups jump with touch. Release the parachute. Parachute opens. Groups take-off and flight, slow motion. Touch and letting go. Parachutes open. Skydivers go after landing, wearing their parachutes.

Kiel on the Baltic Sea - SideShow of the Olympic Games in the North – preparing to water and land, to spoil the Olympic Sailor with the most perfect fishery in the world.
The Kiel-Schilksee Olympic Village Hotel comfort. Apartments modernly furnished single and double rooms are available for the 700 sailors and workers. After the games, the apartments will be rented or sold. The technical installations are maintained - as sailing - performance Center, where athletes from home and abroad can work according to scientific methods.
Sailor ACEs had come to the pre-Olympic duel on the Kiel fjord from around the world. For a week they tested the wind and ocean currents on the three race courses. Lakeside bungalows to invited to ponder the choice of sailing stuff and the right tactics.
Also for the German sailors, the pre Olympic test was revealing. He demonstrated: even at their home circuit, they are Not yet so far to keep pace with the elite of America and Scandinavia.

The Allied Control Council building in West Berlin, in which 23 years ago failed a joint policy of the allies towards the defeated Germany, again attracted world interest. The Ambassador of the former four victorious powers struggled in the last 17 months to a contract that will secure the future of West Berlin. Uncertainty had accompanied the rise of the divided city. Because West Berlin, the territory of the GDR is surrounded by, except by a waterway, connected only by three roads and three same pair of tracks with the Federal Republic. Two decades the island location was West Berlin's rise to harassment on the access roads. Only the air traffic in three set corridors remained free from politically motivated interference. Subsidies of the Federal Republic the locational disadvantage of West Berlin's balanced economic competition until today: West Berlin has evolved and remained the largest German industrial city. But more political uncertainty.
Journalists from around the world, the four ambassadors presented a framework agreement, which is to make safer the location of Berlin: the traffic will run smoothly in the future. The DDR is confined to a passport control in the movement of goods samples in passenger traffic. Bonn accepted a certain reduction of the federal presence in West Berlin. The American Ambassador, the Soviet, the French and the British were satisfied.
Abrassimov: "end well, all right!"
The Berlin wall that divided the city, should be transparent for the citizens of West Berlin: those who were previously excluded, should receive the same rights as the citizens of the Federal Republic to visit East Berlin. Remain strained attention there is on the wall, which was built 10 years ago by the GDR to prevent its citizens from escaping, and it will be shot are still fleeing.
The citizens of West Berlin must continue to deal with the problems of the island location. The metropolis offers significant advantages young people from Germany - they love to come. However, the population and structural problems require a special task, perhaps, to be more cultural and political hub between East and West for West Berlin.
Federal President Heinemann, a few hours after the signing of the Berlin agreement on the Garden Festival in Berlin invited Bellevue Palace, described himself as "first beneficiary" of the Treaty. Because Berlin had this time on his usual protest against the visit to Berlin of the President dispensed with. 2000 Berlin clashed on with Molle and grain for a better future. The negotiators of the West Berlin Senate passes the wall towards East Berlin. Further negotiations are necessary: alternately in Berlin and in Bonn the negotiators of the two German States will meet, the framework agreement of the four powers. to fill in with concrete agreements. Already the first meetings showed that the negotiations will be lengthy.

Phil Woods, alto saxophonist from the United States to guest in Heidelberg - modern jazz in the famous castle ruins of in Germany.
The Heidelberger Jazztage form an attractive contrast to the historic buildings and the romantic touch of the old city on the Neckar River, which is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Germany for generations for tourists from Europe and overseas.
The Heidelberg Castle in countless songs and poems Sung, has in centuries earned a reputation, to be Germany's most representative ruins. But not only destroyed awaits the visitor: the extant buildings and facades of the Castle are visible testimony of architecture and styles of Europe between the 13th and 17th centuries.
Swinging Heidelberg - meeting point of youth and students, which also attract the life rhythm between kitsch and art can be like of the intellectual tradition of the city. Heidelberg University was founded in 1386 and since then has been Center of urban life.
The former Pedellenhaus houses the attractive relic of sunken boy glory — the lockup - from 1712 to 1914 the holding cell of the University for unruly students, who had to lose here at bread and water if they were contrary to custom and order of academic life.
The historical student pubs have preserved their wine - and beer-soul atmosphere. Hundreds of semesters met here for the drink, which then often ended in the lockup. Also the professors withdrew into the smoke vault to the Sundowner. The German romantic poet wrote their songs here wine elated.
The intellectual and artistic tradition did not prevent from Heidelberg, a young and lively city to stay, a field of experimentation, which annually attracts thousands of young people from all over the world, not only during the jazz days.

Almost as important as the parachute, the camera was as an exception: she should hold, which otherwise only a fleeting impression would be - 5 German groups jumpers training 3,000 meters above the Sauerland.
Training target: German jump record from 10,600 metres above sea level, the team recently set up to improve A few hundred meters.
Nearly 50 German citizens have so far discovered the appeal to sports in free fall from high altitude. Only a few hundred metres above the ground open their parachute flight Springer. How you before to outsmart the free-fall are looking for in individual and group exercises, filmed our camera.
The flying sportsman controls his destination point with arms and legs. Experienced jumper have learned to maneuver centimetre.
The speed in free fall: 50 meters per second. 400 metres above the ground, the parachute for safety reasons must be raised. 250 ft offers the last chance: because the parachute takes 4 seconds to unfold.
A Knight's equipment costs about 3,000 mark, a crack depending on the height of between 8 and 25 mark. Despite this cost attracts the frenzied flight experience in free fall: the number of registered jumpers in the Federal Republic has tripled in the last two years alone.

Date of Release:

24.09.1971

Year of Production:

1971

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Reportagefilm GmbH

Commissioned by:

Bundespresseamt

Film Format:

16 mm

Duration:

00:17:00

Film length (in m):

170

Colour:

Colour

Audio:

Sound

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