Deutschlandspiegel 266/1976 1976

01 Stuttgart: Daimler-Benz Oldtimer rally in Munich - 90 year automotive views from car windshield when test driving on curves line. Drive through excessive curve. Mercedes car on test track. Slalom driving around obstacles. 2 Mercedes cars driving next to each other and keep. The first car in the world, Karl Benz patent motor car.
Munich: Vintage car rally. Vintage throws with flywheel. Riders in historical costumes on vintage cars. Music from the time "as the wheels run learned" on the market place in Munich.
Stuttgart: Mercedes works by top transformer. Assembly Hall. Installation of dampers. Suspension. Look back on the chassis at speed. Mercedes cars in crash tests. Drive against wall frontal, side and rear. Riding on a test track by smoke and water spray. Windshield wipers work when visibility is poor.
(59 m) 2nd election 1976 driving record on election posters with heads of the top candidates of Helmut Schmidt and Helmut Kohl over. Election officials handle attached to pillars CDU Gerhard Obiako by road. Helga Schuchardt converses at the information booth of the Hamburg FDP interview with citizens"... can that one not be offset against the other." Election billboards: Helmut Schmidt - the better man must Chancellor remain - SPD, in addition the Milka cow poster. Transformer Helmut Kohl - Chancellor for Germany - CDU poster sure social and free. Hans Dietrich Genscher on the phone, power the Liberals choose - FDP.
Election day: People go to polling station. Registration, issue of ballot papers. Ballot, great. Helmut Schmidt and wife Loki when walking to polling station in Hamburg. Helmut Schmidt's ballot in ballot box. Franz Josef Strauss and wife choose in Rottach. Franz Josef Strauss casts ballot in ballot box.
Bonn: Crowd at the market square in the evening. Election results will be announced on the big screen. Election results on screens in Media Center. CDU election headquarters: cabbage with flowers laughing and waving, surrounded by people. Photographer umdrängen Kohl. Journalist's notes. "Kohl's interview interview:"... what we need in the face of the domestic and international development in our country. This is a strong Government."
SPD headquarters: Willy Brandt stands in front of TV cameras surrounded by people. Hans Dieter Lueg interviewed Willy Brandt. "" Quote: "... a plausible explanation?" Willy Brandt interview: "I can stop me Not now with trivialities, but I need to focus on the essentials. The social liberal coalition has asserted itself in a serious defensive battle." As listener Heath Wieczorek-Zeul, is great. FDP headquarters: Hans Dietrich Genscher on monitor. Maihofer, Hildegard Funke, Mischnik, Genscher, great. Brandt and Kohl in a television Studio. Annemarie Renger, big in the conversation. Cameramen in the throng. Kohl is melted. Brandt, Kohl, Genscher, the Party Chairman, sitting side by side. Arrival Helmut Schmidt in the Chancellor's Office. People clap. Helmut Schmidt speaks interview: "our two parties SPD and FDP voters previously told us To want to go back together. We have received a majority. "I would no doubt leave my determination to make Federal Ministers Genscher of the new Federal Government jointly with Mr." Loki Schmidt with flowers on arrival. Helmut Schmidt beckoning surrounded by people.
(115 m) 03. portrait of Constance and Constance look by lifebuoy harbour of Konstanz at Lake Constance. Bottom lake steamer. Costume group. Palm trees. Modern apartment buildings. Medieval buildings and half-timbered houses. Pan Bodensee water filling picture. Map shows consistency in the border triangle Germany France Switzerland. Bridge traffic from the top. City image from above. Spitzer green steeple above rooftops. Transformer Constance meadow shore and sailing boats. Procession with costumes groups and bands. The relics of canonized Bishop Konrad are carried through the town. Pan across the Cathedral to the Gothic church portal. Interior of the Cathedral, where once the Council met. Altar. The merchant's House on the harbour. The market place. Medieval paintings on house walls. Modern buildings of the University. Flat stone beach. Feet and hands of girl in the water. 2 girls sitting at the water's edge. People sunning themselves on the meadow on the banks. Bottom lake steamer. Tourists go by the Board. The island Mainau in Lake Constance. Parrot Park. Palm trees and orange trees. Visitors in floral park. Panoramic view from the island on Lake Constance.
(69 m) 04. Berlin: children's Festival of the UNICEF crowd and children picture filling on the Kurfürstendamm. Confetti is thrown. Sing the Schöneberger of sängerknaben together with former Schöneberger of sängerknaben. Children wear badges of UNICEF. Poster: White yellow, red, black, wrapped in blue cloth, UNICEF, children. Firefighters spray from fire hose foam rain. Children jostling behind barrier rope, run then by foam carpet and spray foam. Peter Ustinov moving through crowd and sign autographs. Children's choir sings the song to UNICEF children's Festival "Time watch, today's children are people of tomorrow". Peter Ustinov conducts children's choir, singing: "times pay attention, it's obvious, because it was always thus in the world, was so and never different." Distribution of bananas. Child eating soup from a cardboard Bowl. Balloons will be lowered from window and captured by the children. The Kurfürstendamm with lighting in the evening. Advertisement AEG. Lantern procession. Color image of UNICEF lights.
(62 m) 5th Hagen: Go-Cart - World Cup audience, great. Man with pipe, big. Man with cigarette, big. Man with beard and leather hat, big. Go-Carts on the track. Drivers with their vehicles before the race. United States-driver. Drivers wear the carts to the scrutineering and sealing prior to the start. Flying start. Referee waving banner. Dense field of riders on the track. Meandering cornering the vehicles, driving behind the field. Drivers from the front in the tight corners. Security fence and straw next to the race track. Advertising: Coca Cola. Circuit. Driver comes to curve from the car and races against side gang. He carries it back vehicle on track and starts again. Driver comes in turn from the train and runs diagonally across inner meadow. Official waving banner. World Champion Larsson, Sweden, wreath is killed and congratulations.
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300 million cars currently in the world. The technical expertise of nearly four generations of motorists inside the most.
The first car in the world - the patent Motorwagen by Karl Benz. On 3 July 1886, the Swabian hobbyist with a horizontal flywheel threw the a-cylinder-4-stroke engine. 90 years later: The three-wheeled vehicle moves from the Museum on the road, at the top of a vintage car rally, with Munich's lovers of classic cars celebrated the anniversary of the car.
The scarce 1 HP engine brought the vehicle to a speed of 16 kilometers per hour. Music from the time where the wheels got to running, received the classic before the Munich Town Hall.
The great automotive works look like today, which all have their origin in the backyard workshop by Karl Benz in Mannheim. The Benz factory Instead of delivered already annually 600 vehicles around the turn of the century. Daimler-Benz – the successor company founded 50 years ago - produced now 370,000 cars a year. Their main construction principle means: driving safety. The Swabian automotive company was among the first who designed crumple zones and safety cells.
Today, cars are the transport number 1. Their share of passenger transport is 80% of freight transport at least 40. Man paid off but the engine of the world with pollution and millions of deaths. The cars of tomorrow must be therefore even safer, this eco-friendly and energy saving.

Election posters with portraits of the top candidates lined the streets.
Parties were to agree. For the 8th time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, its citizens elected a new Parliament - the Bundestag. In focus were: Helmut Schmidt, the old Chancellor - Helmut Kohl, the Chancellor candidate of the CDU/CSU opposition and Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the Chairman of the free Democrats, who had expressed even before the election for a continuation of the social liberal coalition between the SPD and FDP.
90.7% of the 42 million eligible citizens took advantage of their right to vote. The overwhelming majority of voters opted for the four parties represented in the Bundestag, SPD, FDP, the CDU and CSU. The 14 other parties reached only 1% of all the votes cast.
Seemingly Helmut Schmidt was with his wife at his Hamburg-based polling station. Franz Josef Strauß was in a good mood in the Bavarian Rottach. His party, the CSU, had one of their most successful campaigns behind him, as demonstrated in the evening.
The polling stations were closed at 6: 00, Bonn citizens and visitors on the market square of the capital crowded. On a metre canvas, a super screen, the television broadcasters submitted results and analyses. Already the first projections gave the final result quite accurately: votes for the CDU/CSU under Helmut Kohl - but an advantage of 10 seats for the social liberal coalition.
At the headquarters of the CDU, Helmut Kohl was celebrated as "Almost winners". Only the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Konrad Adenauer, was able to achieve a better result for the CDU in 1957.
"... what we need in the face of the domestic and international development in our country this is a strong Government."
Not far away, at the headquarters of the party of European Socialists, their Chairman Willy Brandt commented on the election result: "I can stop me Not now with trivialities, but I need to focus on the essentials. The social liberal coalition has asserted itself in a serious defensive battle."
For the free Democrats, Foreign Ministers Genscher took position. Instead of a loss of two mandates as compared to the election expected votes in 1972. The regret over the vote losses was outweighed by the assurance to assume responsibility in the Government.
In the Federal House, the two German broadcasters ARD and ZDF arranged an interview with the Chairman of the party. The bottom line: Despite the profits of 16 seats for the CDU/CSU - she brought it on 243 seats, the SPD/FDP, however, remains her only further the role of the opposition to 253 -.
In the Chancellor's Office, the choice commented on late night Helmut Schmidt: "our two parties SPD and FDP have predicted the voters that we To want go together again, we have received a majority. "I would no doubt leave my determination to make Federal Ministers Genscher of the new Federal Government jointly with Mr."

Konstanz - a medieval city, which owes its appeal Lake Constance and its geographical position located in the extreme south of the Federal Republic,. The Switzerland, Austria and Germany are neighbors on Lake Constance, who wants, can do a day trip through three States of Constance from.
The Lake Constance town always in the intersection of competing powers and ideas has been politically and culturally. Constance traces itself to a Romano-Celtic settlement. In the 5th century, the town was elevated to a diocese. In the annual procession, the relics of the canonised Bishop Konrad are carried through the streets, Constance remember its rich religious tradition. In the Cathedral, once met the Council - the largest Carranza of the middle ages. The only Pope selected on German soil was raised in the old merchant's House at the Harbour on Peter's Chair.
The war has spared the old town image. Carefully restored, it offers an interesting contrast with contemporary architecture. The Town Council is also a university town for 10 years. On the newly-built campus, cooperation and participation are the structural principle of University Administration.
The sub-alpine climate of Lake Constance is mild and dry, allowing a long swimming season. The white fleet of the Bodensee Steamboat catches the tourist flows and routes them to the many tourist sites on the shores of the third largest lake in Europe.
Almost subtropical climate on Lake Constance Mainau Island. Bananas, figs and oranges grow here – an island of the South. There is a point of attraction for more than one hundred thousand visitors a year.
20 years ago, they wore shorts. 20 years ago they were members of a famous choir: the Schöneberger of sängerknaben. For one day they returned to West Berlin, to sing together with the youth for a better world. For a world that turns the degree of love and care to the child, to which it is entitled. Giant children's Festival of UNICEF on the Kurfürstendamm was dedicated to the children all over the world, Berlin shopping and shopping Boulevard was closed to all traffic. The children, about 100,000 from all districts of West Berlin had right of way. Sparkling rain of fire hoses, stalls, street theatre / music: organized by adults for children, on the occasion of universal children's day and the 30th anniversary of the children's Fund of the United Nations.
Also World stars were in the service of the good thing. Peter Ustinov conducted a choir, who sang a song composed for the day: "Let's watch, the children of today are the people of tomorrow".
The Street Festival was a success financially. Last but not least it was the West section of UNICEF, one of a total 82 in the Federal Republic. Through the sale of lottery tickets and donated in-kind 300,000 mark were taken - a sum which is to benefit needy children in the third world.

13 World Cup for cart drivers on the race course in the city of Hagen. The title fights in the smallest class of formula in the Federal Republic were awarded for the first time. From 29 countries, licence driver travelled Westfalen - with your machine in the baggage. With dem100 cubic centimeter-high-performance engine, the a hundredweight heavy cart over 200 km/h is fast. Before starting the little racer is taken technically and sealed.
The cart has a direct drive, gearbox and clutch are not allowed. Therefore you can start just flying.
15,000 spectators watched the hunt through the tight course. The German driver except the successful years Italians were favored. They put on their home field advantage.
A security fence several hundred bales of straw and plastic-coated wire mesh protecting drivers and spectators. It there almost hard to come off of the course.
In the middle of the race: flying start! Some surrounded by the entire world elite diminish his chances looked, chose the direct path to the target.
A Swede WINS just ahead of two Germans. The new world champion Larsson may dream of a career: also formula I champion Fittipaldi has once started as a Go-Cart driver.

Year of Release:

1976

Year of Production:

1976

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

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Deutsche Reportagefilm GmbH

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Bundespresseamt

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16 mm

Duration:

00:14:00

Film length (in m):

150

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Sound

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