UFA-Wochenschau 161/1959 25.08.1959

1st visit to Eisenhower aircraft US Air Force rolls out. German and American flags. Adenauer, by Brentano, interpreter Weber, General Heusinger on the airfield. Salut. Eisenhower comes down stairs behind him Secretary of State Herter. Welcome by Adenauer. German army band playing the American national anthem. Eisenhower, Adenauer and General Heusinger intervention from front of stand of all military branches. Eisenhower welcomed the members of the Federal Cabinet and the US Embassy. Adenauer interview: "I am convinced that the exchange of ideas, with a number of European statesmen, maintain these days, will serve the peace and security of the world." As a listener: By Brentano and Herter, ostrich and hay singer, Erhard; Schröder; Seebohm. Eisenhower speaks interview: "... a free Berlin, we will like yourselves and continue always to enjoy... "Handshake Eisenhower - Adenauer. Drive standing by cheering people with a motorcycle escort to Bad Godesberg. Driving with headlights. Transparent: East Prussia - Silesia - POMMERN.
(63 m) 2nd parachutist course for medical doctor Gita Chanda training in air force school. Exercises on the floor and training jump from aircraft. Landing.
(14 m) 03. Mexico: tree beetle transmits diseases tree bug, big, crawling on the body by warthog and stands out. Pathogens greatly under microscope. Beetle crawls on hands of man. Bite. Pathogens in blood from people and multiply quickly. Microscope image.
Gears can be folded out by electric auxiliary motor (30 m) 04 wheelchair for paralysed wheelchair, making stairs can be overcome.
(9 m 05) Tahiti: visit to leprosy village leper village fishing, hanging laundry, walk and into their homes.
(15 m) 06. Italy: Indian summer vacationers on the beach and basking.
(14 m) 07. Alkmar / Holland: go fashion show of the local silk industry in Seidenstrümpfen mannequins with hooded cloaks. Demonstration of pants dress. Waiter jacket, Baker caps. Mannequins with cylinders perform men's shirts.
(11 m) 08 England / Brighton: election of the beauty queen faces of the applicants, large pan. Applicants in newly built, nor empty swimming pool. Champion Wicky Boorne, Blackpool.
(12 m) 09 Cornwall: shark fishing prisoner of shark, hung up on land. Boat on the sea. Mrs shark fishing.
(10 m) 10 Friesland: ditch jumping young men jump on long sticks of ditch. Landing on the other shore or in the water. Girls jump and fall into the water. Winner will receive the trophy.
(18 m) 11 Germany: children's holidays in building playground game playground skipping rope and boat. Construction of wooden houses. Lantern parade singing "Lantern, lantern" (23 m) 12. Moscow: almost empty greeting of the teams in the Lenin Stadium athletics competition USSR - Germany. 110 m hurdles men: kick-off. Martin Lauer leads, by Mikhailov is catching up but then. Destination photography chooses Mikhailov. 80 m hurdles women: start. Zenta Kopp Gastl loses against Irina Press at the same time. Viewers filling picture. Irina Press, great. Triple jump: Gorjajew WINS. High jump: Shavlakadze WINS with 2.08 m. shot put women: Tamara Press it wins with 16.56 m pole vault: Bulatov WINS with 4.50 m. Russian among the spectators. 100 m men: Manfred Germar WINS in 10.8. Finish in ZL. 200 m men: run. Viewers get up. Manfred Germar before businessman WINS on the last meters. 4 x 100 m relay: as final Torchbearer, Manfred Germar brings victory for the German team against Osolin. The USSR WINS clear with 129:91 points in the overall standings. Stroll through the town of the German team to the Kremlin. Visit the red square. Film cameramen. The Saint Basil's Cathedral. Marianne Werner raise large stone.
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"Title brand 7, 6 Eisenhower in Bonn camera: Luppa, strong, basic parachute jumping end doctor, India origin: film Division of deadly bug sting, Mexico origin: Emasa of novel sick wheelchair origin: Cine sound lepers on Tahiti origin: Gaumont bath life in Italy origin: iNcom bath life in France origin: Gaumont fashion in Holland origin: Polygoon choice / Miss Brighton", Engld.
Origin: Pathe news shark catch, England origin: Pathe news ditch stilt jumping, Holland origin: Polygoon kindergarten and lantern, Hbg. camera: students Athletics international competition Dtld. / Russia in Moscow camera: base, Seib final brand 3, 1

Medicine and Research India: The young doctor Gita Chanda is the first woman of India, which can be formed as a parachutist. Air force school, completed as their male comrades, the prescribed training jumps, to later provide medical assistance in the disaster relief in inaccessible areas.

Mexico: medicine in South America is this dangerous tree bug that feeds on the blood of even heavily armored mammals, now on the track. At the same time, the insect absorbs pathogens with blood.
Still always hungry, it searches for new food.
Take the bite is deadly pathogens in the blood of the people as well.
They spread rapidly throughout the body and not seldom any medical help comes too late.

Australia: The cherry wood clinic of Sydney was presented this new wheelchair for the victims of polio. By an electric auxiliary motor can be overcome easily any stairs with him. A welcome help for the countless people who are his life tied to a wheelchair.

Tahiti Tahiti - symbol of South seas romance is that. However, these people are not tourists – there are lepers, who had to lead their lives, on the island, from all over the world. But since you launched the lepers from human society, gone. The modern, medical research denies the extreme contagiousness of leprosy. The isolation method is obsolete for the sick a hope more from exile to return.

It is busy to win the "best sites" from the Indian summer - late harvest anywhere on the shores of Europe.
Who is tired of too much social life and has no seasonal ambition, locates the rare solitude of nature.
The Dutch city Alkmar served a special fashion show their tourists. The domestic silk industry presents the variety of their products.
After a light jacket for waiter the fashionable bakers Cap today, and finally a new demonstration by Mr shirts.
In New Brighton, England, they elected the inevitable beauty queen, the well-attended Coronation scene as the Summit of season the newly built, still empty swimming pool.
The most beautiful Badenixe of England, Wicky Boorne from Blackpool.
The most beautiful shark by England was captured on the coast of Cornwall. Shark fishing is there more recently come into vogue as a health-promoting vacation employment for everyone.
The spectators at the traditional ditch jumping in Friesland had the largest holiday fun.
The winner in the long jump of staff set a new record with 10 meters and 80.
These kids have been perhaps no summer trip and yet they experience every day more than some ' other driving thousand kilometers. On their playground, you To find props for every adventure, ideas for play and fantasy galore. This exemplary playground is formed by a large construction company in Hamburg.
What the adults Not yet To want to admit, the children include it in their game, the first signs of early autumn swing through the dusk.

The international competition in Moscow, he began in the amazingly bad occupied Lenin Stadium ceremonial greeting of the teams.
The German track and field athletes went with high hopes in this meeting, Augsburg's last victory was still in good memory.
110 m hurdles of men. High favorite, record man Martin Lauer. In Europe so far unbeaten, he must accept his first defeat in Moscow. Destination photography chooses Mikhailov.
Also world record Zenta Kopp Gastl is no victory over 80 metres hurdles on this track. In the last meters, moves past Irina Press and WINS at the same time.
Gorjajew is not to compromise in the triple jump. Also the other jump competitions and technical exercises go to the Soviet Union.
Shavlakadze jumps over 2 metres and 8.
Among the women, Tamara Press WINS in the shot put.
In the pole vault, Bulatov brings the points for his team.
The distances are a sure thing for the amazingly resistant Manfred Germar once again. He won the 100 metres in 10.8 seconds.
Over 200 meters he is up to the half distance the Russians - surprisingly strong businessman - 400 meters winner but Germar comes in the final meters and ensures our team a one-two finish.
Also the German success in the 4, times 100 meters relay of the men could not prevent the clear defeat of the German track and field athletes in the overall standings.
The slightly depressed mood among German athletes was rescued however by an extensive walk through town. Our cameramen accompanied the prominent travel company to the Kremlin, the biggest attraction of the Soviet capital.
Snapshots from the red square and St. Basil's Cathedral built under Ivan the terrible are the Moscow drivers still long this international competition are reminiscent of a sporting task that has proved to be a little too heavy.

Date of Release:

25.08.1959

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:

Polygon; Gaumont; Incom; Cine Sound; Emasa; Films Division; Pathé News

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German