Welt im Film 199/1949 18.03.1949

01 updates soon a. commemoration of Gandhi's death day Indians. Nehru put down at Memorial wreath. Indians sit at the place where Gandhi's body was burned.
(16 m) b. Italy: construction of the Monte Cassino monastery ruins of the monastery during the war. The US Ambassador is planting olive tree at the beginning of the reconstruction. Debris. Reconstruction, sculptures.
(26 m) c. Hawaii: Vulkan Mauna Loa clouds of smoke coming from the volcano. Glowing lava flows, night scene, aerial view.
(19 m) d. United States: flight around the world without landing pilots get on plane B-50. Start in Texas. Flying aircraft. Refueling in the air. Flight route on the map of the world drawn. Landing and waving after returning to Texas. Congratulations for pilots.
(30 m) 2 Munich: pawnshop yesterday and today empty spaces of the Leihamtes. Rain drips in rooms. Empty shelves. Coffins are kept in a pawnshop. Snake face lending. Man checks objects. Withdrawal of money.
(30 m) 03. England: Science helps mothers of infants. Doctor and nurse in bed sick. Sister newborn in her arms, big. Laboratory investigations. Doctor shows effectiveness of inhaler for pain-free birth. Insensitivity to pain. Crying baby.
(29 m) 04. people make clothes for spring and summer fashion shows in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Berlin. Long wide dresses and jackets. Wide jackets. Dress with low back neckline.
(44 m) 05. streiflichter from Germany a. Duisburg: Rhine ship basing coal Holland barge is loaded with coal. Barge on the Rhine River near border control.
(14 m) b. Düsseldorf: postage stamp forgery unit stamps, big. Stamps in the shop window. Exchange on the black market. Collectors considered brand with magnifying glass. Specialist checks brands.
(25 m) c. Munich: Aquarium at the Tierpark Hellabrunn alligator Pike in Aquarium. Fish eats little fish. Vulture turtles swim. Piranhas at feeding. Skeleton of the bait.
(24 m) 06. Hannover: The big football event: Northern Germany against South Germany 1:0 inlet of the teams. Kick-off. Pass from South Germany. Goalkeeper Flotho holds. Second half: Turek, South Germany, keeps the ball. Bung bottle scores goal for the North. Embrace the players. Centre forward of the North galley breaks through, but Turek holds. Viewers run after the game on the square.
(49 m)

01 updates soon: a. Gandhi's death anniversary of the first anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi was committed in all over India with prayers and commemorations. The Indian Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, and foreign diplomats laid wreaths at a memorial plaque for Gandhi.
Over a million Indians from all parts of the country made pilgrimages to the place where Gandhi's body was burned a year ago.
And millions in all India honored the Apostle of tolerance, non-violence and faith.

b. monastery Monte Cassino Monte Cassino was rebuilt. Here pictures of the bombing of the Italian monastery, which was built by German troops in the war to a military base. To remember that in the battle for Monte Cassino fallen American soldiers, the American Ambassador planted an olive tree. The reconstruction of the world-famous Benedictine monastery will take seven years. The ruins of the old building be reused due to lack of material. Many of the old works of art of the monastery are preserved as miraculously.
Monte Cassino - destroyed and turned into ruins - comes back for the third time in his thirteen hundred year history again in old size and beauty.

c. Vulkan Mauna Loa Mauna Loa, one of the most daunting volcanoes in the world, was again in action. Plumes of smoke and flames shoot over the almost 5,000-meter mountain in the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Glowing lava streams flow through the canyons of the mountain down into the Valley.
This sensational night pictures were taken from an aircraft of the US air force.
White glowing lava flowing from the crater and covers an area of several square kilometres.
After 20 years of peace, Mauna Loa has again become the fire-breathing monster of the South seas.

d. world flight B-50 flight around the world non-stop. An American B-50 aircraft will begin in Texas to the first non-stop flight around the world. The flying aircraft was powered by a special type of refuelling from the air with fuel. The flying gas stations were located in the Azores, in Saudi Arabia, in the Philippines and Hawaii: here the refueling in the air! By a special aircraft, the fuel is taken over by a hose.
With a crew of 14 the machine put back the 38,000-kilometer route in 94 hours, just under four days. The average speed was 385 miles.
After the aerial of world seas and continents, the machine again safely lands on the spot in Texas.
Around the world in 94 hours - without accommodation and without landing.

02. lending - yesterday and today, lending yesterday - decayed ruins, without staff or customers. Looked like the pawnshop in Munich before the currency reform: destroyed roofs left by rain and snow. The pawnshop was closed - no one wanted to put something. The space for the pledges remained empty. In the cash room, municipal cemeteries Department had put in coffins. A tomb without life and operation...
Lending today - a completely different image of the same site. The switches items of all types of collateral are offered again. The pledges can be triggered within 3 months. Mostly used the money to cover essential expenses. Today, the pawnshop is a mirror of the time with their multiple concerns to the daily bread.

03. England: Science helps mothers painless birth - without anesthesia. A new scientific achievement should be all mothers of England in their heavy hour available. This is a request, the English Parliament should decide on the now.
About 750,000 babies are born each year in England. Science and social reform should therefore provide relief for 750,000 mothers.
The painkillers and the necessary inhaler can be applied by every doctor and every midwife. Here a specialist in the laboratory demonstrates how the new medium is applied and acts. Fully conscious of the body is No more sensitive to pain.
So, the science helps the mothers. These babies are No more born in pain.

04. people make clothes: for spring and summer is a new fashion Center Düsseldorf, where formerly Berlin companies have now built their factories. This spring and summer clothing is presented - this time, the clientele consists of retailers. These clothing models special value is low price set. Also the leitmotiv of this fashion show in Frankfurt is cheap and tasty. The new fashion for spring and summer of 1949 has great simplicity in the lines - the lightly-weighted Hüftlinie has remained - the wide swinging day skirts have become shorter.
Fashion show in Berlin. A leading House brings 115 chique new models, which are then shown in West of Germany. So, despite the blockade: connection and world fashion and export. Soft, lightweight wool and silk are the preferred material - the colours have become somewhat more subdued, some models have a strong appeal to the fashion show at the turn of the century.
All in all: the fashion remains distinctly feminine. The 'New Look' transformation from extravagance to the generally portable. Clothes make the man. And people make clothes that fell anywhere again.

05. streiflichter from Germany: a. Rhine ship to Holland In the port of Duisburg the first German barge is loaded, which happens again after the war the German Dutch border on the Rhine. The cargo of 1,500 tons of Coke, goes directly to Rotterdam.
On the border: Control of the papers. The boatmen are owned by Chechnya.
German Rhine vessels can now go to the ports in the Netherlands.

b. postage stamp forgery stamps are small securities. The risk of counterfeits grows with the increasing popularity of these collectibles. On the black market, sometimes surprisingly cheap brands are offered, whose Echtheit then doubting the buyer on closer examination. In Düsseldorf, therefore the judicial police established a Central Office for combating counterfeiting of postage stamp. Using modern methods of investigation here reveals any forgery. First, a general review is carried out: is the suspected of a forgery, so looking at the structure of the paper. Even the postmark is tested by infrared photography. The brand itself remains almost invisible here. The stamps detective infallibly decide whether the tiny security is real or fake.

c. fish in Hellabrunn new attractions in the Aquarium of the Munich Zoo Hellabrunn. This alligator Pike in North America like crocodiles have bony plates instead of scales. Smaller fish, which they catch with their long beak-like mouth are their food.
The vulture turtles also come from North America. Enter their name because of the vulture-like head. Hidden in the mud they lurk for prey.
And finally the dreaded water hyenas from South America, the piranhas. In Hellabrunn succeeded for the first time, to record the as nervous as murderous piranhas at feeding. The bait in a skeleton is transformed in an instant.

06. the big football event: Northern Germany to southern Germany in Hanover the teams from northern Germany and southern Germany faced before 40,000 spectators - the sensation of the football season. After the war, southern Germany (white trousers) lost still no selection game. By kick-off away a colored, fast game with slight superiority of southern Germany is developed. But Flotho prevents all successes in the gate of North Germany. Northern Germany will think about after halftime. Dangerous attacks roll on the German goal, and the goal keeper Turek has to fend off trouble the sharp and placed shots. The decision in the 59th minute. Gallagher strikes to bung bottle, who shoots a untenable. It is 1-0 for North Germany.
And still a dangerous situation for southern Germany. Breaks through the North German centre forward galley - Knoll can clarify at the last moment. Towards the end of the game South Germany will make every effort to achieve the balance, but the backs of the Northern ward off all attacks. It retains the tight result has earned won 1: 0 Northern Germany a great game.

Date of Release:

18.03.1949

Year of Production:

1949

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Commissioned by:

USIS

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German