UFA-Wochenschau 152/1959 23.06.1959

01 bus accident at the level crossing in Lauffen limited level crossing. Train passes the barrier is closed. Room of the train guard at Bahnwärterhaus. Barrier opens. City shield Lauffen district of Heilbronn. Cars crossing the Rails after barrier is open. People with newspapers. (At level crossing bus has been detected in Tübingen-Würzburg by express train). Debris pictures. 38 dead. Battered bus. (More than 30 passengers were recovered alive.) Barriers are closed. Train passes. Flagman revs up barrier. Cars on track.
(48 m) 02. Hamburg: meeting the Cap Horniere old masters and Cap Horniere of the Pamir wreath lay down at memorial plaque for the victims. Harbour cruise. Visit to the Passat. Welcome by monkfish Graf Luckner. Old driving people driving the Passat and the shrouds.
(30 m) 03 Hamburg: Belgian training ship Mercator cadets on training ship. Exit at backdrop Hamburg landungsbrücken and Michel pass. Passing to the German shipyard. Windjammer drive stretches under sail.
(23 m) 04 keel: launching of the Onassis tanker Olympic Champion Tina Onassis christens the tanker production sound. Champagne bottle shatters on the bow. Hug from Aristotle Onassis. Giant tanker runs from the stack.
(21 m) 05. Kieler Woche sailing are raised. Kick-off. Sailing on the fjord.
(23 m) 06 Karlsruhe: German gliding Championships cameraman filming and keeps the camera upwards. Will high towed glider. Flying and aerial photos. Landing braking parachute. In cockpit world champion Haase.
(29 m) 07. Upper Palatinate: skiing on sand people with skis on his shoulders go through landscape and are drawn with large lift on the mountain. Skis are strapped. Slalom run on kaolin sand scattered from. Fall. Departure in summer shorts.
(24 m) 08 Oberstorf: figure skater at the summer training swimming competition. Gymnastics in water. Tour with swimsuit with ice skates at the ice stadium. Kürlauf of the Italian figure skating champion Anna Galmarini in a bathing suit. Marika Kilius and Hans Jürgen Bäumler run.
(44 m) 09 Berlin: International track and field sports meeting be set up starting blocks. 80 m hurdles women: start and run in ZL. Start finish victory runs great in 11.1 seconds ahead of Anneliese Karl, Zenta Kopp / Munich. 100 m hurdles men: start and run in ZL. Martin Lauer WINS in 13.7 seconds ahead of the Italians Mazza. Close-up. Viewers filling picture. 5000 m run: start and run. Ludwig Müller wins the final sprint. Close-up.
(40 m) 10 Vienna: handball World Championship: Germany - Romania 14:11 run the teams. Large field outdoor game. First, Romania plays to consider. Audience clapping. Gate dignity for Romania. Goalkeeper parades. Germany is catching up. Gateway throws for Germany. Ball is in the net. Advertisement: Philips TV.
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Title brand 7, 6 bus accident at the level crossing in Lauffen camera: Basic, Seib "Cap Horniers" in Hamburg camera: Rieck, Seib Prien Schulschufff "Mercator", Hbg. camera: Seib, Rahim Stapellf. Tank. "Olympic Champ!", Kiel camera: GA sailing "Kieler Woche" camera: GA German glider Championships, Karlsruhe camera: strong, basic summer skiing (kaolin Hill, Amberg) camera: Hafner, Vlasdeck summer Eisbahn, Oberstdorf camera: Vlasdeck int. Leichtathl.-Festival in Berlin camera: P Handb.msch. Germany / Romania in Vienna origin: Austria final brand 3, 1

The disaster of Lauffen a limited level crossing somewhere in Germany. It is a day like any other. The barriers are properly closed.
But one day this level crossing in Lauffen becomes the scene of a horrific disaster.
Yet the small Württemberg town people can't comprehend it. At this point, a crowded bus and coach of the express train of Tübingen-Würzburg was captured and smashed. 38 people died at this point completely frazzled bus reveals the unimaginable power of the clash. And yet more than thirty passengers were recovered from the rubble alive.
The causes of the disaster will be solved someday. The level crossing between Lauffen and Meimsheim but will remain marked by death and mourning.

Cast off!
In Hamburg, memories were evoked in these days of a past, great time of seafaring. Gray driving people from many countries, which once Hora have circumnavigates Cape on sailing ships, the Pamir laid down at the memorial plaque for the victims of a wreath.
The CAP Horniers, as the brotherhood of the captains and helmsmen of the old windjammer calls, could it not take, in the port of Hamburg to keep lookout towering masts.
On the Passat monkfish Graf Luckner and the other Cape Horn to sailors could freshen up then old memories.
The elderly captains but have good reason to smile. There are enough young. The word of old driving people "the best sea legs grow on sailing ships" also applies to the cadets of the Belgian down "Mercator", which in these days, visited Hamburg.
The image one is a rare and fascinating sight under sail windjammer travelling down the river Elbe for coastal populations, the image of modern navigation looks like this. In Kiel, a 65 thousand ton tanker was baptized by Tina Onassis on the name "Olympic Champion".
The new giant tanker of the Greek shipowner has a length of 254 meters and reaches a speed of 17 knots.
The launch of the giant oil tanker was also an imposing Overture to this year's 77th Kiel week, which began with the preparation of the ocean yachts regatta in the Olympic port.
The traditional meeting of the sports sailors from all over the world on the Kiel fjord is located in this year "to the wind".

Sports Karlsruhe: wish you good wind also the participants of the German gliding competition in Karlsruhe Forchheim, which takes place after the World Championship regulations.
Even in the age of supersonic fighter and manned rockets, there's still the romance of free flight. The old dream of mankind, the same bird, silent hovering and gliding has still its original meaning for the glider pilot. But also on a glider, the technical progress can be register. This guy needs even a brake parachute for landing.
World Champion Haase is among the most prominent participants.

Amberg: For passionate skiers, there are obviously nowadays no seasonal breaks more. You can practice in this country all kinds of winter sports in the height of summer summer, without snow, of course, because this ski lift will not on the Mont Blanc, but on the Monte Kaolino in der Oberpfalz. What da beautiful white and g lead looks is sand.
False winter, then towards the real Soraraer is not far, and the ski runners showed also in the wet element from its best side.

Oberstdorf: those are also preparations for winter sports in Oberstdorf.
The summer visitors carried ice on it here recently.
By the way, is very prominent summer visitors. This is for example the Italian skating champion Anna Galmarini. Also European champions Marika Kilius and Hans Jürgen Bäumler took the opportunity of Olympic summer training.

Berlin: As the high favorite, also the German national handball team - white - in the final went to the World Cup. In Vienna WACKER Stadium nearly a half was given long a lesson from Romania after the lightning-fast 2-0-lead the Romanians came the team better in the game.
A five minute gate vertebrae in the second half decided the meeting and made Germany with 14:11 for the fourth time to the handball world champion.

Date of Release:

23.06.1959

Year of Production:

1959

Camera Work:

Grund; Hafner, Anton; Pahl, Georg; Rieck, Hans Jürgen; Seib, Gerhard; Starke, Rainer; Vlasdeck, Willy; Garms

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH

Source Foreign Material:

Austria

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German