UFA-Wochenschau 29/1957 13.02.1957

01 company Orient - 2nd report Beirut airport. Manfred Purzer loads camera luggage. Aerial view of Jerusalem. Election of the Patriarch of Jerusalem. Head of the Greek Orthodox Church. The border between the Israeli and Jordanian Jerusalem. Jordanians read newspaper. Jordanians with binoculars on the border of the city. The Mandelbaum gate. At the border crossing observation and command post. Mass demonstrations in Israel against the United Nations resolution to the evacuation of the Gaza Strip. Arab refugee camp near Jericho. Women carrying water jugs on their heads. Children in the camp school. Sick in the infirmary. Benedictus.

02. Frankfurt: Departure in the United States, Erich Ollenhauer breakdown from NDW 368/3: on the Rhine-Main airport goodbye Erich Ollenhauer by his wife and his assistant. Ollenhauer of autograph Flugplatzangestelltem and going up stairs. Waving. Luppa's onboard camera. Propeller is started. Start (somewhat less).

03. Tokyo: Foreign Minister Shigemitsu + laying out Shigemitsu and farewell to his colleague: review: Shigemitsu signed as Prime Minister in 1945 with the Japanese surrender McArthur.

04. England: world tour by Prince Philip breakdown from NDW 368 / 5: the friend and Secretary Philips Michael Parker after his return to London from journalists surrounded. Due to impending divorce, he had to abandon his service. Prince Philip on born by ship in the Antarctic. Penguins, sea lions, and Crabeater on rocks. Philip Wade through water (here some other editing).

05. Nagoya: Hunt for an escaped elephant of broken animal transport cage to escape of the elephant. Elephant is driven back after finding in chains and placed in cage. Transport on trucks.

06. circus Knie: elephant training. Elephant lifting feet about this girl. Cameraman filming under elephant lying. Artist pulls up on the rope and turns on the swinging rope. Acrobat makes somersaults through hoops.

07. Hamburg: Middleweight boxing: Max Resch beats Mickey Laurent / France points boxing in the Ernst Merck Halle. Referee separates and warned Laurent. Heavy shock Exchange. Laurent in the 8th round to floor must hit. Referee counts. Laurent turns back to the fight, boxing but posted. Clear point winner Max Resch.

08 Dublin: Rugby-England Ireland 6-0 run to the ball and falls. Feral to the ball. Players remain injured. Viewers filling image head to head. Players without face and body protection when struggles with the ball. Holding, tripping and falls.

9th St. Moritz: World Championships in the four-man Bob helmsman Rösch Germany I on the train. He is 5. Germany II is 8. In the race Bob United States. Exit in haystack. He will be 3 two-woman bobsleigh world champion Monti in the race. He is 2. It wins Bob Switzerland I with Hans Zoller. Winning photo.

Title: 2nd morning country report camera: Seib departure Ollenhauer after the United States camera: basic Foreign Minister Shigemitsu + origin: Asahi news Duke Philip & Parker on St. Helena origin: Pathe news Nagoya: elephant transport lost origin: Asahi news circus Knie camera: Rau, Hafner boxes Resch/Laurent Ernst-Merck-camera Hall: Stoll, student Rugby England/Ireland in Dublin origin: Pathe News four-man World Championships St. Moritz origin: Cine journal end brand:

Take West Beirut, which was the capital of Lebanon, the first station of the UFA camera team. With the Air Jordan, the journey to another country of the front went Orient, always looking for further news.
Jerusalem, the divided city. Just in the first hours our employees witnessed an event that occurs only once in a generation. The Patriarch of Jerusalem was elected. Benedictus remains the head of the Greek Orthodox Church for his whole life.
The Jordanians lively discuss the political issues.
Main topic of their talks; the border. Often her gaze goes over into the Israeli Jerusalem, you say: "This is Arab land, which now lies in Israel."
The only border crossing between Jordan and Israel is the Mandelbaum gate. Behind Israeli fortifications.
In Israel, our team became an eyewitness to a mass demonstration. The people of this country protested against the UN resolution, which calls for the evacuation of the Gaza Strip.
Speakers and banners proclaiming slogans against the United Nations. Came from Israel around 90000 Arabs since 1948 after Jordan, Jericho was the largest refugee camp in the world. Civilization seems to end here, in the same place where she once took their origin.
The women of the camp to get the water from the source, the Prophet Isaiah once by a salt water turned into a freshwater source.
The children know nothing more than the camp, their only joy is the school. A teacher, it is said, is balanced here with gold.
The rush to the infirmary is great. Any disease the epidemic can spread under unsanitary conditions of camp life. The political and human problems of the Middle East are nowhere more evident than here. From current events: Bonn: Goodbye to the SPD Chairman Erich Ollenhauer on the Rhine-Main airport. He joined a 16-days trip to the United States.
Ollenhauer firsthand about the views of American leaders to the world situation will consult on a number of political meetings.

Tokyo: The former Japanese Foreign Minister Shigemitsu died at the age of 69. His colleague Hatoyama made the last visit. In September 1945, General McArthur of the United States and Shigemitsu had signed the surrender document in Japan as Japanese Prime Minister and ending the second world war.

St. Helena the Napoleon's exile island was a station of the world tour, the Duke of Edinburgh took with his friend and Secretary Michael Parker.
Now, the longtime companions must separate, because Parker has filed his farewell. The impending divorce from his wife forbids him a position at the Royal Court according to unwritten laws.
Meanwhile, Parker in London has arrived.
The British public wonders whether these consequences with a contemporary Outlook is compatible.

Nagoya great consternation prevailed when the crew of a Japanese animal transport. Miss Bamako, a stately elephant Lady, had broken out. After a long search, the valuable animal was found and caught again.
The dream of freedom was short-lived for Miss Hamako.

Magic of horse-riding In the circus Knie in Munich lives the small Rosita under dangerous foot. It has nor fear of the mighty elephant bulls Sandri as our cameraman, - Sandri did something for his new friend and brought him into the right position so that he could film Tosca de Lac, the charming Frenchwoman with her grandiose Luftakt. The culmination of the program is Domis. His Salto represents an artistic world sensation through the hoop.

Colored boxing match of the Middleweights of Germany Middleweight hope Max Resch fought Merck-Halle in Hamburg Ernst the French Mickey Laurent, Resch is reflected alstechnisch accomplished fighter, he opposes the wild attacks of his opponent's effective results. The advantages of the fight are moving more and more to Resch, must in the eighth round of the French for the first time to the ground, Laurent stands over the rain, but he is clearly inferior. Convincing points winner: Max Resch.

Play rugby, the game for hard men, United elements of handball, football and of freestyle wrestling in the rough manners.
In a match England (in white) and Ireland in Dublin faced. -England leads 2-0. A successful attack is the result of 3-0 half-time. -Injuries not stay out, but after the forced Verschnauf break we continue with double standby. A turbulent scene after the other, limits are set only by the rules of the hardness, - 6-0 England win this international competition.

Four-man World Championships under the also-rans were registered the German bobs at the World Championships in St. Moritz. Bob Germany I finished 5th place with helmsman Rösch. Germany II was 8.
The Americans landed in third place lively ride. For two-woman bobsleigh world champion Monti, Italy, it reached Go ahead the second position.
The Swiss Hans Zoller, surprise winner and new world champion Bob Switzerland I was driving all of it.

Date of Release:

13.02.1957

Year of Production:

1957

Camera Work:

Grund; Hafner, Anton; Rau, Kurt; Seib, Gerhard; Schüler, Richard; Stoll, Erich

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH

Source Foreign Material:

Asahi News; Cine Journal; Pathé News

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German