UFA-Wochenschau 143/1959 21.04.1959

01 United States: John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State, sets down Dulles Office, large, before microphones. His signature. At Conference. Standing in an open Mercedes in addition to Willy Brandt in Berlin. Waving with hat in addition to Adenauer. Starting close up under umbrella.
(18 m) 02 Washington: visit breakdown from NDW 482/3 - here shorter Fidel Castro: Fidel Castro goes down stairs. Visit to the United States to get a larger dollar bond. In addition to the new Secretary of State Christian Herter, great.
(6 m) 03. India: arrival of the Dalai Lama in Tezpur car reverses in northernmost railway station of India Tezpur. The 23 year old priest King is welcomed on arrival.
(12 m) 04 Hanover: fair preparations for the German industrial fair in 1959 construction, cranes, steel road, vehicles, screws turn. Pavilion Humboldt Deutz. Giant parking lot.
(43 m) 05. Frankfurt: opening of the House of the "Deutsche Bibliothek" Pan 9-stöckiges buildings. Books are arranged. Entire German writing goods is managed since 1945. Readers in the library.
(43 m) 06 Gelsenkirchen: water baptism for letterpress journeymen newspaper Note: "UFA Wochenschau today at the Gautschfest of the LAD printing." Onslaught in historical costumes. Apprentice receives journeyman and submerged in water ton.
(18 m) 07. Zagreb: game clock turns from the game clock to the jukeboxes. Collection of old music boxes and vending machines.
(25 m) 08 London: Big Ben strike 100 years Big Ben. Watchmaker increases in Tower, to check mechanism of the Carillon. Date of manufacture 1859, movement. To correct, coins are placed on suspension. Large hour Bell of Big Ben. Big Ben in the evening light.
(25 m) 09 Switzerland: 70th anniversary of the birth of Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chaplin and his wife Oona with flowers, surrounded by reporters. Children Chaplin at the leapfrog. Charlie Chaplin is a book. Film clips of Chaplin silent films.
(35 m) 10. Rome: Olympic preparations stadiums under construction: the Olympic Stadium, hockey stadium - Stadio Marmi with large marble figures - swimming pool with recessed Windows in the edge of the pool. Stadio Flamino, the football stadium with flood light masts. 2. structures for indoor sports. Boxing, gymnastics, fencing, large and small Sports Palace.
(39 m) 11 Pirmasens: German championship in woman gymnastics spectators clap. On the uneven bars: Ursel Schepam / Dortmund. She is 4. On the uneven bars, the German Champion Rosi Fottner successfully defended their title. Rosi Fottner in the floor exercises. Audience clapping.
(33 m) 12 Nürburgring: racer as teacher for car drivers car on the Nürburgring: VW Karmann Ghia, Mercedes 190 SL, triumph sports cars, Porsche. MG, ID 19 Citroen, VW Beetle. Cornering, oil trace. Teacher: Richard Frankenberg; Count mountains of trips, Hans stuck: winner Theo Mey.
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Title brand 7, 6 John F. Dulles resigned origin: Metro of Fidel Castro Cuba in Washington origin: Metro Dalai Lama, arriving in India origin: Asian, vis news preparation: fair, Hannover camera: student Frankfurt Book Tower camera: strong water baptism d. Buchdt.-GES., Gelsenk.
Camera: Basic music machines origin: Novosti 100 years Big Ben origin: Pathé news 70th birthday ch. Chaplin & old. Film origin: Cine journal, gek. Material from Olympic preparations in Rome camera: Luppa DT. Meistersch. i. women T., Pirmasens camera: strong, basic sport driver training course, Nuremberg ring camera: Seib final brand

John Foster Dulles, heads the week six years through Foreign Minister who has United States Office laid down. He has represented the interests of the United States and the Western world in countless conferences; He made the trips to a new style of diplomacy; He was a man of tireless activity.
Despite his illness, he further advised President Eisenhower.
An unofficial guest in Washington the Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro. Looking for a larger dollar bond for his country he met with the new Secretary of State Christian Herter.
In Tezpur, the northernmost railway station in India, it was assumed the spiritual and secular leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama.
The 23 year old priest King emphatically said he had voluntarily come to India. The Indian Government has provided a Villa him in Mussoorie. The showcase a little early and yet in time our cameraman attended enough the German industrial exhibition in 1959 in Hanover. What is not visible to visitors to the fair, building and preparing this huge patterns show to appear here once.
Figures sober to these images of a few. 770 exhibitors from abroad have sent their products to Hannover, on the whole, there are over 4 thousand companies. The statistics also indicates that the number of employees approximately 53 thousand on the fairgrounds. A total 18 thousand tons have been transported in the exhibition grounds exhibits.
The city of Hannover registered the largest trade fair in Germany after the war and the visitors - a reasonable - parking.
The new home of the "Deutsche Bibliothek" was now opened in Frankfurt am Main. This 25 metre, neunstöckigen "book Tower" preserves the entire German-language literature published since 1945. There are more than half a million volumes, completeness phone books.
That the printer keep even today ancient custom and good custom in honor, that we experienced in Gelsenkirchen-Buer. The printer's apprentice of traditional water baptism must undergo the so-called Gautsch letter to purchase and to be recognised as a journeyman.
Comment from the 16th century to this hearty Planscherei: "The thirsty soul a Sturtzbad give on top."

The time on the roller of Belgrade: It is the roll of old time, which turns here, so to speak, the great-grandmother of the record.
This unique collection of old music boxes, musical clocks and phonographs belongs to a private person in Zagreb.
This Orchestrion was also even then for only a dime everyone's favorite melody - however in three-quarter time.

London: The biggest game watch in the world but has London. It is the clock high up in the Tower of the Parliament. Three times a week a specialist climbs, to review the mechanism of the Carillon.
This watch is exactly one hundred years now, but its precision is proverbial; If it is really necessary to correct, putting a few coins on the pendulum.
The heart of this clock but is the large hour Bell "Big Ben". Its sound goes everywhere from London on the broadcasting, where Englishman living.

Charles Chaplin celebrated the birthday of Charlie Chaplin's his 70th birthday. The great magician of the boob lives today with his wife and six children in the Switzerland. Unforgettable and incomparable but remains of Charlie Chaplin, who made eloquent film more than forty years ago, even though the canvas remained silent.

Sporting a pre Olympic panorama offered our cameraman in Rome. The Italian capital is gearing up for XVII Olympic Games in 1960. The Olympic stadium seating for one hundred thousand spectators is focus of new plants. The athletics competitions will be held here.
The Stadio dei Marmi, you will play hockey with his larger than life marble figures.
The swimming pool is particularly spacious. Through the window into the edge of the pool, you will later film the float under water and photograph.
Remarkably in the design and its technical facilities the Stadio Flaminio where the Olympic football tournament in front of 55 thousand spectators will roll off.
For indoor sports - such as boxing, gymnastics and fencing - two architecturally beautiful structures have been built. So, large sports Palace for 18 thousand spectators from the dome measures almost 40 metres up to the play area.
Small Sports Palace for 5 thousand spectators is perhaps the most impressive example of the style of this modern Olympias in Rome.
A pre Olympic aspects was the German championship in woman gymnastics in Pirmasens. Compared to previous years, the services were generally excellent. This good practice on uneven bars came Ursel Schepan from Dortmund only at the fourth place.
The German Champion, Rosi Fottner, from Munich, Germany successfully defended their title.
The Munich for this exercise got 9.8 points. In the floor exercise, she was still clearly superior then all competitors.
How to sportgerecht drive car in all weathers, learned that the participants of a seminar at the Nürburg ring. Richard von Frankenberg was his racing experience available, like Graf Berghe trips and old master Hans Stuck.
The ABC of driving begins in the curve.
The horror of each driver, the oil trace here is generated it artificially, because whoever passes the slide test, is recommended in everyday life when black ice from the railway.
Finally, it sought the perfect driver who knows how to turn well and quickly. It was also not a Grand Prix, this amateur race at the Nürburg ring, there was yet a glückstrahlenden winner, Theo Mey from Luxembourg.

Date of Release:

21.04.1959

Year of Production:

1959

Camera Work:

Grund; Luppa; Seib, Gerhard; Schüler, Richard; Starke, Rainer

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH

Source Foreign Material:

Asian; Cine Journal; Novosti; Vis News; Metro; Pathé News

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German