Welt im Film 133/1947 12.12.1947

01. There is more change hand presses on checkout of number of. Stamps and certificates on hand. Man charged with postage stamps. In the Munich Mint Prime Minister Dr. Ehard and the Director of the military Government for Bavaria, Murray van Wagoner, half-close. Van Wagoner is stamping machine. Van Wagoner passes the first five penny piece of ebony. Five penny piece. Coins fall into container. Coins are weighed and dumped.
(42 m) 2 images from around the world as United States: A city will move to load vehicle transported whole House. An office building will be transported on ferry service across the river. Houses are offloaded to the new destination.
(17 m) b. Australia: locust swarms of locusts, filling picture. Kids and car driving behind schools. Locusts on blade, great. Farmer destroys locusts with flamethrower, spray of arsenic, spreading poisoned bran. Blown-down trees and shrubs.
(27 m) c. Kenya: Sports Festival indigenous screening of gymnastics and war dances. Big Dummies of elephant and Buffalo on vehicles are shot.
(17 m) 03. Göttingen: German table tennis - championships played in final the women's singles: Miss Bussmann woman Hartinger defeated in three sets. Clapping spectators, half close, in weak erhelltem Auditorium. Men's individual: Brown, Wuppertal, lose to r, Berlin, in three sets. Referee goes beside table, players half close and big. Congratulations to game and shaking hands with the referee.
(32 m) 04 Horseshoe bring luck TeX Rogers throwing horseshoes from a distance with stand. He hits the target, which is hidden behind ceiling.
(25 m) 5th updates soon a. United States: UN General Assembly - partition of Palestine Division in Palestine and Jordan is decided with 33:13 votes. Map with the new Arab and Jewish State. Jews in parades with banners.
(25 m) b. Switzerland: King Michael of Romania goes into exile in Swiss train in the image. Car drives in front of hotel in Lausanne. Michael with his mother in front of the hotel, close to half. Suitcase in the hotel lobby. Picture his bride Princess Anna of Bourbon Parma. Michael and Helene in welcoming of guests, half-close. Side by side, half-close.
(25 m) 6 new from Austria a. Vienna: Crime Museum visitors in the Museum. Image of Einbrecher King Breitwieser. Medieval instruments of torture. Headboard of a guillotine. Hook with Hangman noose. Death sentences in the original version. Replica of a death row. Hollow-paged book, with the knife was smuggled. Cross had to kneel before the offender from the Nazi era.
(37 m) b. railway car diesel truck runs on Rails and moves railcars on the track hospital-Villach-Klagenfurt.
(19 m) c. Obergurgl: ski lessons for children in the snow village. Children come home from school and put on skis. Teachers and students on the training Hill at Stemmbogen. Children jump over small jump. Downhill skiing of the children.
(31 m) 07. All years back a. Nicholas sheep graze on snow meadow. Nicholas goes across the meadow. Little boy and little girl make boots outside the door. Shoe with wishlist, great. Santa Claus comes with bag and fill the shoes. The children To find the filled shoes In the morning.
(27 m) b. Oldenburg: refugees sew dolls women sort old fabric scraps. Woman sewing on a sewing machine. Women sew dolls heads and clothes. The dolls are dressed.
(20 m) c. plays 11-year-old on the organ plays Christmas carols child organ.
(18 m) d. Munich: exhibition of masterpieces of wood carving a Salzburg Madonna (1430), Christopher (1525) Maria with child (1500) Tilman belt Schneider St. Barbara (1531). Birth of Christ on one altar.
(24 m) e. Mainz: Vienna Boys Choir sing the choir in the nursing home, half close. Pan across old listeners. Close-ups of old and boys choir.
(31 m) f. festive mountains in the snow. Farmers go to the Church. The baby sitting in the Church and sing "O you happy". Hand with Rosary, great. Figure of the Madonna with the child. Burning candle. Ringing bells, big.
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01. There is more change "change? Didn't I!" How many times do you hear this sentence, which illuminated the coin shortage in many parts of Germany today. Stamps and vouchers must replace the missing change. Courtesy of the Allied Control Council was started with shaping new five - and ten-penny pieces.
Prime Minister Dr. Ehard and the Director of the military Government for Bavaria, Murray van Wagoner, during the start of the stamping machines were the Munich Mint.
The Governor is the first machine in motion.
He passes the first smooth five penny Dr. Ehard.
Van Wagoners,'s reminder that change is just treated as banknotes next currency reform went to the address of the coin hoarders.
In the Munich coin seven machines characterised by hourly per 6,000 pieces of five Pfennig.
The coins are weighed after the expression. Its weight must match the supplied raw material. A single five-penny piece is decisive in this precision balance.
The new coins will be an equivalent amount of banknotes out of circulation.

02. images from all over the world: a. city moves to United States In the State of Washington, moved to a shanty town. Huge loads tractor roll with its unusual cargo on the road.
Also water is no obstacle.
A whole office building floats with full inventory on the Columbia River.
On the other side, it continues via axis.
At the new destination, the work can continue after a short break. Time and money are saved. And building materials is precious in the resource-rich America.

b. "locusts", Australia of new South Wales in Australia was struck by a massive locust plague. Plantations, farmland and forests were eaten bare literally in minutes.
The farmers fight the voracious insects with all means and lists.
Here with flamethrowers.
Arsenic is sprayed over the fields. Poisoned bran kills tens of thousands of grasshoppers, but hundreds of thousands to take their place.
It is a losing battle.
A conspicuous swarm of locusts darkened the skies in dense clouds. Nothing green survived their proximity. The floor damage goes into the millions.

c. Kenya a sports and folk festival in Kenya in British East Africa. With gymnastic exercises, here we go: a very modern-looking demonstration.
But soon, the picture changed: the colored Turner today is transformed into terrifying picture book Warrior. Stomping and bounces it demonstrate its picturesque traditional dances.
And then, the highlight of the day: motorized big animal Turend go over the line and be with Bush and Lasso imposed. A fun for old and young, black and white...

03. Göttingen: German table tennis championships 1947/48 the German table tennis championships 1947/48 were Göttingen held. The finals were Instead of on the stage of the Capitol lighting. In the women's singles, Miss. Bußmann, multiple German Champion and former world champion fought woman Hartinger.
Mrs Hartinger - in bright sweaters.
Miss Bußmann smooth won in three sets, and became German champion.
In the men's singles, I, Berlin, Wuppertal, no. 48, r struggling Brown to the decision.
In three hard-fought sets, r clinched victory and a German Championship.

04 bring Horseshoe lucky Horseshoe good luck, especially when you get to throw them like TeX Rogers, the champion of the American entertainment game.
He never throws his head from 15 meters away - and every time he hits the nail -.
After 25 years of training the achievement: the throw without sight on the target.
TeX Rogers is not worried about the future: he knows that each of his horseshoes is a lucky iron.

06. updates soon: a. Palestine with 33 against 13 votes decided the UN partition of Palestine. England is his Palestine mandate on 15 May. The country is divided into a Jewish and an Arab State. The Jewish State - on the map knows - wraps the ports of Haifa and Tel Aviv. The fertile East was given to the Arabs. Jerusalem itself comes under the Trusteeship of the United Nations.
For the Jews of throughout the world, the establishment of a separate State means the realization of an ancient desire. To want to not add the Arabs, however, the decision of the UN. Arab parties proclaim the holy war.
Palestine will be a focal point of the international politics for a long time.

(b). King Michael in Switzerland came to Exkönig Michael of Romania in exile in the Switzerland. With his mother, the Queen Helene, and a few companions he took for the time being stay in a hotel in Lausanne.
After the last events in Bucharest, which had the abdication of the young King to the episode, Michael lives here as a private citizen. He will soon marry the Princess Ann of Bourbon-Parma.
The 26-year-old Exkönig now bears the name of Michael von Hohenzollern Sigmaringen.

News from Austria: a. the eerie Museum In the Vienna District Court, the "grey House", was recently set up a crime Museum - it includes many interesting things about the history of Austrian forensics. -Here the infamous Einbrecher King Breitwieser - and a collection of his workshop.
Medieval instruments of torture.
Here the traces of the Fallbeils are the headboard of a guillotine on the Board to see that stuck at an execution.
A running hook with a Hangman's noose.
The one-room Museum is one of the smallest in the world - there are also photos of criminals and old death sentences in original version.
The replica of an Armesünder cell where condemned their last hours spent.
A book that was prepared for smuggling of goods. Before this cross, the prisoners of the Nazi regime had to kneel before they were executed.

b. diesel engine, necessity is the mother of invention. In Austria, the coals are scarce, however, diesel oil in sufficient quantities is available.
Therefore, the Austrian Federal Railways created a new means of transport: railway car.
An eight-ton diesel truck is now used as a towing vehicle on the track hospital Villach-Klagenfurt.
This rail car can pull wagons 3 to 5. It operates twice a day.
The diesel truck roars with 60 kilometers hour then - so to speak at full throttle!

c. children skiing in Austria's highest village of Obergurgl in the Ötztal, 1930 meters high, skiing is compulsory in school.
An ideal training Hill in 2000 m above sea level is located right behind the schoolhouse. The teacher is now a ski teacher, and students go to the Stemmbogen, the ABC of ski art is taught here early. The 6-to seven years have a hill in small format already built up and jump exactly the width of their age: 6 to 7 meters. In a few years, they will go over big jumps - and some future Ötztal ski Cannon among them is safe.
Concluded - in the shot down, how it for hearty skiers should be.

05. all years again...
Every year - is a harbinger of the Christ child - Santa Claus. The children place their shoes outside the door before going to bed. In her shoes is the wish list for Santa Claus. Over night, Santa Claus fills the shoes the well-behaved children with small gifts. The next morning, the children have a taste of the joys of Christmas.
All years again many hands are worked, to make Christmas even in difficult times to the most beautiful Festival of the year. Refugees manufacture from fabric remnants and waste dolls in Oldenburg. Any of the refugee women working on another part - often in home work - and finally re-emerging a cheerful round dance of princesses, little Red Riding Hood, and mythical creatures - so according to the hearts of the children... All years back sound on the Christmas carols. An a girl on the organ.
This year, the National Museum in Munich to the Christmas shows German wood carving masterpieces.
A Salzburg Madonna to 1430...
A Christopher 1525...
Mary with child from the area of Memmingen near 1500...
Tilman belt Schneider St. Barbara, 1531...
Again and again the old masters form the Christmas scene of Madonna with the child, and on many altars, scene of the Nativity can find with the adoring shepherds.
Every year Christmas celebrations be recycled too old, that rest from life.
The Vienna Boys Choir to sing in nursing homes by Lainz.
And then Christmas is. The holy hour To find young and old to the Church, and all years back the cheering is heard "O you happy - o you blessed..."

01. New Coins
"Coins? I haven't any!" How often this sentence is heard today in Germany. Stamps and paper money have to replace small coins. By permission of the Allied Control Council printing of new 5 and 10 Pfennig coins has begun. In the Munich Mint Minister President Dr. Ehard and the Director of Military Government for Bavaria, Murray van Wagoner, were present at the beginning of the new coinage. The Governor starts the first machine. He gives the first 5 Pfennig coin to Dr. Ehard. Van Wagoner adressed the "coin-collectors" and said that these coins would be used instead of bank notes. Each one of the 7 machines of the Munich Mint stamp 6.000 coins per hour. Then the coins are weighed. The weight has to agree with the delivered raw material. One 5 Pfennig coin makes this precision weighing machine swing. For the new coins an equal amount of paper money will be taken back by the banks.

02. News Flashes from Everywhere

a. Town Moves
In the State of Washington, USA, a whole town of barrack buildings is moved to a new location. Huge trucks carry their strange freight along the road. Even water is no obstacle. A whole office building swims the Columbia River. At the new place, work is finished in a short time. Time and money is saved, and building material, too, which is precious even in America.

b. Locusts, Australia
New South Wales in Australia was devastated by an immense swarm of locusts. Farms, fields and forests were eaten up in minutes. The farmers fight these insects by every means possible. Flame throwers. Arsenic is spread over the fields. Poisonous pollard kills tens of thousands [...] locusts, but 100.000 replace them. A fight without hope. The locusts darken the sky and nothing green is left. Damage amounted to millions of dollars.

c. Kenya
A holiday in Kenya, British East Africa. It begins with gymnastic exercises: quite a modern performance. But soon the picture changes the coloured gymnasts become prancing warriors. They demonstrate their picturesque, traditional dances. And then the highlight of the day: motorized animals enter the arena and are caught by gun and lasso. Fun for old and young, black and white.

03. Göttingen:

German Ping Pong Championships 1947/48
The German Ping Pong Championships 1947/48 were held at Göttingen. The finals were played on the stage of the Capitol Movie Theatre. In the ladies' singles Miss Bussmann, several times German and former world champion, plays against Mrs. Hartinger. Mrs. Hartinger in the light pullover. Miss Bussman won in 3 sets and became German Champion. In the mens' single Braun I, Wuppertal, No. 48 and Raack, Berlin, competed in the finals. After three tough sets Raack won and became German Champion.

04. Horse Shoes Bring Luck
Horse shoes bring luck, especially when you know how to throw them like Tex Rogers, the champion in this American game. He throws from a 15 meter distance - and each time he hits the spike. After a training of 25 years this result: the throw, sight-unseen. Tex Rogers doesn't worry, he knows that each shoe is a lucky one.

05. Again, as in Every Year
Every year comes the "Nikolaus", the forerunner of the Christ child Before the children go to bed they put their boots outside the doors. In the shoes is a letter with many requests to "Nikolaus". During the night Nikolaus fills the shoes of the good children with little presents. Every year people are busy preparing a merry X-mas, even in hard times. In Oldenburg refugees make dolls from old cloth. Finally the finished doll joins the file of princesses, Red Cap, and other fairy-tale figures. And the X-mas songs are sung again. An 11-year-old girl plays the organ. This year the national Museum in Munich shows master pieces of old German sculpture. A Salzburg Madonna 1430. Christoporus 1525. Mary and child from the Memmingen district 1500. Tilman Riemenschneider-s St. Barbara 1531. The altars are decorated with the X-mas motive of Madonna and child, and the praying shepherds. Every year the old people have an X-mas party. The Viennese boys' choir sings at the old people's home, Lainz. And then comes Christmas. "O du fröhliche ... o du selige ..." is sung. Young and old go to church again, as in every year.

Date of Release:

12.12.1947

Year of Production:

1947

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Commissioned by:

USIS

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German