WELT IM FILM NO 50

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: WIF 50).

Synopsis

I. "Spring in Germany". Film from Berlin (including families using half-wrecked rooms of bombed houses as balconies), the provinces (traditional ceremonies; attempts at grass skiing; the bargees stranded in the Weser canal plant crops in the dry canal bottom) and the Munich carnival.

II. Indian Olympics in Bangalore: traditional athletics, plus acrobatics, 'tent pegging' etc. in presence of Wavell and a Maharajah.

III. Florida: mining of phosphates as fertiliser for Europe.

IV. Nuremberg: Dr Gisevius in the stand (witness for Frick) speaks from his own experience on the nature of the police/Gestapo.

V. Dachau: commemoration of liberation (small, personal tributes rather than official ceremonial).

VI. Sequence on the reconstruction of German railway network, following usual pattern: 'chaos', rubble clearing, rebuilding of track, salvaging of rolling stock, trains running.

VII. "Bilder aus aller Welt." a. Pictures of the new British airliner Tudor II b. Surfing and surfboating in Australia. c. Fashion industry in Germany (Hamburg fashion school) and hat fashions (for women and dogs) in USA.

 

Titles

  • WELT IM FILM NO 50
 

Technical Data

Year:
1946
Running Time:
16 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
35mm
Colour:
B&W
Sound:
Sound
Footage:
1406 ft
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
Allied Military Government