Welt im Film 180/1948 05.11.1948

01 Berlin daily sector border in Berlin with shield you are leaving the Jonathan sector. Russians control cars that drive to West Berlin. Memorial Church, in airlift aircraft. Men carry bags with wood. Crowded platforms. Women wear wooden bags. Topping-out ceremony of the power station of West Berlin. Richtkranz is raised. The mascot of army Clarence in the Western zones collection to Berlin. Children riding on a camel. Plane with a small camel lands in Berlin. Children to storm on aircraft.
(67 m) 02 updates soon a. Münster: 300 years of Westphalian Peace procession in historical costume. Peace flags of the 30-year-old war. Replica of the "golden rooster", who saved Munster from the destruction, is worn. Ceremony at the National Museum. General Bishop speaks, total. Equestrian season brings peace manifest on Dutch border. Customs sign Duane, big. Turnpike opens. Dutch rider take the message.
(32 m) b. ERP administrator Paul Hoffmann in Berlin and Frankfurt rolling out aircraft, large. Paul Hoffmann goes down stairs. General Clay welcomes Hoffmann and Harriman, the Special Envoy of the Marshall plan. Car driving off. Paul Hoffmann go down in Frankfurt aircraft stairs. Meeting with economic experts of the Bizone. Ludwig Erhard, great. Hoffmann at the negotiating table, half-close.
(25 m) c. Bad Ischl: funeral of Franz Lehar black flags on houses. Funeral procession. Chapel. Coffin is carried. In the funeral procession members and representatives of the Austrian Government. Funeral from the Franz Lehár theatre. The coffin is buried in the family vault. Last recordings of Franz Lehár. Lehár waving at people from the balcony of his villa in Bad Ischl.
(43 m) d. border U.S. - Canada the flags of the two countries. Children of both countries in a procession through the border town of Blaine. The flags are replaced.
(15 m) 03. Munich: Fashionable image report Munich: woman with costume show in fashion salon. Long next coat. Mannequin front mirror. Long wide coat with high collar. Mannequin goes down stairs and is greeted by a man with long hair and a long time sports coat.

Berlin: fashion show. Dresses, costumes, long and wide skirts.

Wiesbaden: fashion show of a Berlin company: models on the catwalk. Women clap. Company clothes. Long dresses. Deep neckline. Evening dresses.
(56 m) 04. England: LOCOMOTIVE on the test bench with 200 km/h steam locomotive on the test bench. Spinning wheels. Heater. Men on measuring instruments.
(30 m) 05. Truman President remains New York skyscrapers. City traffic. People in the election. Truman, half-close. Dewey, half-close. Truman at the lectern. Truman during discussions with the population. Truman in conversation with Roosevelt, great. US flag to half-mast. Truman speaks at his swearing in 1945 Truman. Marshall, half-close. Truman signs Marshall plan. Loading of bags. Country map. Power of the Russians is drawn. The White House. Truman, great.
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01 the Berlin daily is Berlin daily as the blockade. The delimitation of the various sectors has experienced a tightening: the police of the Russian occupied sector controlled the car before they drive into the Western sectors. This measure is to prevent that food or assets in the West sector of the Soviets blocked access. But the air space remains free - you can not control the aircraft of the air bridge. Berlin life in the sign of the approaching winter. Taking to help themselves to increase the fuel allocation. With the light rail, it's in the suburbs to collect wood. In crowded trains, you can reach the places where there to get something else. Every branch, every tree stump is welcome. The Berlin take even this trouble on himself to their other varieties, because they know it's their freedom. They struggle and hauling heavy loads. But each bag of wood is a relief for the coming weeks. One of the main problems is the procurement of electricity for the Western sectors. The new construction of the power station West is progressing well. Recently, the topping-out ceremony could be committed. The difficulties to create material for the construction of the power plant used, are great - but it is continued. Through the timely completion of the external structure, you can continue the work inside in winter.
Fortunately, the gray everyday life is sometimes interrupted by small joys and surprises especially for the children. American pilots made their mascot, the 7-month-old camel Clarence, the joy donor for Berlin children. Clarence was brought to Germany by plane from Africa and collected in various cities of the Western zones for money and gifts. The gifts will decorate the Christmas Berlin children. Everywhere, where Clarence shows up, it is surrounded by children. And now the arrival in Berlin-Tempelhof after the flight of the air-bridge. A thousand kids stormed the runway - because Clarence must be seen - the lucky charm In everyday life of Berlin 02 updates soon: a. 300 years-Westphalian Peace 300 years Westphalian peace. The return of this momentous day of in European history, solemn observances and peace rallies were held in Münster and Osnabrück. A replica of the famous "Golden Cockerel" who kept Cathedral before its destruction by the Swedes, and the peace flag of the thirty years war was supported in a procession in historical costume.
The speech of General bishops, the Governor of Rhineland Westphalia was at the center of the large ceremony at the National Museum of Münster. Finally came the announcement of a peace manifesto, which was brought by a Reiterstaffette at the Dutch border. The peace riders reach the barrier. A Dutch Staffette accepts the message, now bring to the Hague to continue them, where also held a peace rally.

b. EBP administrator Hoffmann Paul Hoffmann, the American representative for the European reconstruction programme, arrived in Berlin.
The Special Envoy for the Marshall plan was his accompanied by Mr. Harriman. General Clay welcomed the two economic experts. Hansen said later at a press conference: "We do everything in our power to help Berlin."
Then Paul Hoffmann went to Frankfurt am Main, where he held direct meetings with German representatives of the zonal administration. The administrator for the European utility advocated an intensive expansion of German foreign trade. Literally, he said: "Building the overall European economy is impossible without building the West German economy."

(c). Funeral Franz Lehar in Bad Ischl in Austria, Franz Lehár's remains were buried. Thousands of guests from all parts of Austria followed in the wake of grief. Wreaths from around the world had arrived. After the family members of the deceased master, the representatives of the Austrian Government followed the coffin. Front of the Franz Lehar theater, Austria took leave from the creator of those immortal melodies that have taken over the whole world.
The Allied military authorities, Lehár's friends and thousands of fans of his music proceeding the last greeting to the deceased. The burial took place in the family crypt, rest in which Lehár's mother and wife. Here the last recordings of Franz Lehár's on the balcony of his villa in Ischl. The House will now be passed as a permanent memorial to Franz Lehar of public.

d. border U.S. - Canada Canada and the United States can look back for 130 years on a peaceful and mutually effective neighborhood. On this occasion drew 2,000 children of the two Nations through the border town of Blaine, in Washington State.
The border between Canada and the United States needs no fixtures. With a symbolic exchange of the flags of the two Nations, the youth gave expression to forever maintain good-neighbourly relations the wishes.

03. fashion image report: you wear...
Despite the time-related difficulties, we are interested in any woman for the question: what to wear and how to wear it? A collection from a Munich-based fashion Studio provides an answer: for example, coats bell-shaped wear... or high-collared. Have a response this time from Berlin, which wants to keep its leading position in fashion despite the blockade. These clothes show that it is not only about the length of the skirt. The cut of the dress is decisive. The new line is something lively and very feminine silhouette of the woman. The fashion blows up we know that all limits and therefore also the blockade. A Berlin-based fashion company flew over the airlift to Wiesbaden, to show their latest models for home and abroad the German fashion industry professionals. The relapse is overcome in the time of the grandmothers. The corset has disappeared. The sloping, not padded shoulders, stressed Hüftlinie and the snippet that can be sometimes deep have remained. The pursuit of grace and elegance is felt everywhere.
The new German fashions nourish just as the dreams as the economy. For a superior back fashion industry now heard my ladies to build-up again normal life, isn't it?

04. on the test bench: locomotive is 200 hours-kilometer the fastest steam locomotive in the world to the test.
This new English construction reached a top speed of 193 kilometers per hour on the railways. The last tests on the test bench in rugby has already exceeded this record of the railway. The machine came to a speed of 209 hours kilometers measuring instruments keep the frenzied streamlined colossus under constant control. Started the mass production of the locomotive.
She will bring a significant reduction of travel times to the haul in England even as overseas.

05. USA: Truman remains President America elected its new President. The whole world followed for weeks with interest clamped to the election battle and then the option itself, whose Ausgang a ' surprise meant. President Truman was set up as a candidate for the Democratic Party. He led his Wahlcampagne with superiority and temperament. The Republican party's candidate was Thomas E. Dewey, the Governor of the State of New York. Dewey was regarded as the favorite. But it was different. President Truman was elected President of the United States. The Senate and the House of representatives now have a democratic majority. Harry S. Truman, the son of farmers from the State of Missouri, considered a man who does not forget the worries of the common man in the big politics in America. in 1944, he became Vice President of the United States and in April 1945 he took over the Presidency of the United States after the death of Roosevelt.
Truman when he was sworn in late 1945.
In foreign policy was his work in particular securing world peace and the. Union of democratic forces. The Marshall plan, named after Truman's Secretary of State, testifies to the special interest in the operations in Europe. The three Western zones of Germany are involved in this grand reconstruction plan.
Truman, confronts the aggressive Soviet policy in the Berlin days, with calm and determination. Now the 64-year-old Harry S. Truman for the 2nd time President of the United States is selected, this time by the people, an event of great importance for America and the world.

Date of Release:

05.11.1948

Year of Production:

1948

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Commissioned by:

USIS

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German