UFA-Wochenschau 240/1961 28.02.1961

01 clocks Museum after examples of time measurement before the invention of the clock, watches are displayed in a Dutch Museum in Bussum. Old time measurement: foot before foot, small stick in his hand casts shadows, burning candle in sections divided and a oil lamp with scale. Clock Museum: Transformer in the Museum, pivoting about a room full of clocks, musical Interior, and game clock with windmills and sailing ships, drums, Black Forest clocks in figures, Panorama with a moving train in a frame, a modern station clock and railwaymen lifts trowel.
(10:00:18 10:01:12) 02 mercury capsule Cape Canaveral: second hand runs great at "Zero", a mercury rocket, introduction of 7 astronauts, including John Glenn, training of frogmen to salvage the capsule from the Atlantic: jump from a boat, handling under water in the capsule, and mount a rescue ring.
(10:01:12 10:01:50) 03. Defusing a mine of air in Berlin-Moabit archive: Lancaster bomber throws a bomb and night-time totals of strikes. A sound truck of the police through Moabit and urged residents to leave their homes, Pan will be lowered over the exposed 40 quintals air mine, rolling shutters, people leave their House, observations by people on the street, including a little girl with doll, old woman with a small dog, women with baby carriages, an old woman is pushed on a Gurney into an ambulance and drove off, and a young woman in a wheelchair, Road sign, traffic light, deserted streets, the two demolition expert, the air mine, House facade with open Windows, the demolition expert at the mine and the built in fuses, speaker size, Georg Pahl sen. on the camera. Hans-Joachim Peters interview with the demolition expert: "how get it so a detonator?" "So, these 3 we brought out here by means of a pipe wrench and the detonation with a bore with a special pair of pliers." "And How long did it take you to do this?" "In the whole 30 minutes." "Thank you." Onlookers watch as the mine with a low-loader is transported away.
(10:01:50 10:03:50) 04 monastery building by Le Corbusier, at Lyon, monastery of Ignatius of Loyola two long shots and a detail of the new monastery building by Le Corbusier, a concrete structure, however, long shots of the historic monastery, cloister, monks go to mass in the new monastery, mass, monks at the fair in the old monastery, glass image, monks in the ambulatory of the new monastery, façade and Bell Tower.
(10:03:50 10:04:38) 05. students demonstration in Brussels, students demonstrate marching with banners, against the policy of the United Nations. Water cannons used, mounted police rides "Attack", a protestor is led away, police officers walk in a park after fleeing, police firing tear gas, the students throw back the grenade.
(10:04:38 10:05:35) 06 new year celebrations in Hong Kong exploding fireworks and firecrackers in the streets of Hong Kong, a boy lighting a firecracker, children digging in the remains of fireworks, burning lanterns, street musicians, dragon dance, children, a man eats in a food stall, a chicken on a Chair, a policeman controls the traffic, night-time street scene, and neon signs.
(10:05:35 10:06:13) 07 Dior fashion Dior introduces the so-called "slim-look". Below are six single - and multi-part day dresses and costumes, and three evening dresses with A lot rhinestone trim.
(10:06:13 10:07:00) 08. Beauty salon in Australia there will be presented new "fat shredder": women are rotating rollers, which should reduce unnecessary pounds on the Po, others riding on Hometrainern, a young girl in the dumbbell press, two women in vibrating massage belts.
(10:07:00 10:07:32) 09 ski flying week in Oberstdorf an Alphorn players against the mountain backdrop, road with Oberstdorf in the background, traffic COP, viewers flock to the Hill, parking, spectators in a tree, smoke cartridge for the wind measurement becomes inflamed, installation starts, cameramen, jumps and a fall. World record jump with 141 m of Jose Slibars, Yugoslavia, Slibars, he will be in the competition but only 6 Wolfgang Happle, Germany, at the start, Willy Millowitsch photographed, jump from Happle, he is 3, jump of the 2 Otto Leodolter, Austria, dangerous-looking fall by Helmut Wegscheider, victory jump by Helmut Recknagel, DDR.
(10:07:32 10:09:30)

Title brand 7, 6 m clocks Museum origin: Polygoon, Sucesos mercury capsule origin: Metro Entschärfg. a "cookie", Berlin-Moabit camera: Pahl, Jürgens monastery of Ignatius von Loyola + Dominican Klost. v. Corbusier b. Lyon origin: Pathé journal, no.-do Santos-Demonstr. away. Congo in Brussels origin: Belgavox new year events in Hong Kong Dior fashions origin: Pathé journal beauty salon in Australia origin: Cine sound int. Ski week in Oberstdorf camera: Vlasdeck, Hafner final brand 3, 1 m

The measure has always been man seeks time to divide the time into measurable sections. He wanted to be a Lord of the time, and to do so, he invented the clock, which should be the end of his days.
A Dutch watch fanatic succumbed to the fascination by later Daedal fabric to the measurement of time. He created a unique Museum in Bussum.
In its outer form the clock has adapted the time, in which she had to measure the time. Formerly there were playful chronometer, today there are sober time machines, of which especially the watches in Cape Canaveral waiting to view a historical second.

Where the pointer in the mercury capsule of such a missile, one of the three American officers will sit maybe tomorrow which are ready and trained for the space flight. Trained and ready then even America's frogmen will be, which here practice the recovery of a space capsule from the Atlantic Ocean. The time for the manned space flight is imminent.

Dangerous minutes by a throwback to the bitterest period of our recent past the inhabitants of the Berlin Moabit of of district of were rattled these days.
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Following the discovery of 40 hundredweight air mine, more than 13,500 people had to leave their homes temporarily.
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Punctually at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, anxious minutes began for the Moabites. Two of the most experienced Shotfirers, the police scorcher raba and Brown, were deployed to defuse.
(Original sound) for 30 minutes it was in Moabit like in those days. Then the general anxiety gave way to the curious interest on occasion happy defused a terrible memory.

Monasteries of yesterday and tomorrow also watches of the churches move with the times, Le Corbusier created this Dominican monastery near Lyon. The contrast to the old monastery of Ignatius of Loyola, in the 16th century. Century founded the Jesuit order, is of course great.
Past eras needed to the mystical sinking still strong sensual impressions. The need for the pictorial demonstration is however largely replaced by abstract reasoning, which even the unadorned lines corresponds to in the Dominican monastery of Corbusier's in our days.

Go Belgium watches?
Against the policy of the United Nations, but also Moscow and Cairo was demonstrated in Brussels of Belgian students. Even under the Jet of water cannon, they held up the banner of new academic view of the world that is to be against everything.
Serious injuries on both sides, the question of why precisely the young generation of Belgium wants to turn back the wheel of time up to the colonialism remained.

According to Chinese calendar with sophisticated combinations of fireworks, Hong Kong, whose Uhren do differently than ours, received the new year, starting end of February according to the Chinese calendar. Also the poorest Chinese save for a whole year for three days play and Frolic.
In the city drawn by the misery of refugees European yearning for far eastern romance, this day means all glory on Earth.

The hour O of the "slim look" for you, my ladies, made from the clocks on the 'slim 'look, the sleek, feminine line, House Dior in Paris. The reigning chef Couturier of the renowned House on the Seine, Marc Bohan, created a sensation with his spring / summer collection insofar as any sensational extravagance this time is missing.

This Dior models are portable to any woman against the ravages of time that slim or is slim. We recommend those women, however, her figure To find more bad than slim, the example of the Australians. In her spare time, visit a beauty salon. There those games be leveled without starvation diet in the rolling by ingeniously devised machines with more trembling as a coward, which are the "slim look" of fashion or demschlimmen views of the men in the way.

The most beautiful seconds the Allgäu Alpine horn that is otherwise Go ahead of the autumn season, attracted 35,000 spectators to the sixth international ski flying week to Oberstdorf. 32 participants from 9 countries started on a hill, with which they had to cope with a height of 168 meters.
Despite many downfalls, the participants undeterred strove to bring the existing ski jumping world record. And he brought down. The 27 Yugoslav Joze Slibar reached only the 6th place overall.
2 days prior to the decision but expected of all world record with 141 meters succeeded him.
Wolfgang Happle, the German Junior jumper from the Black Forest, finished in 3rd place. Its greatest width: 134 meters. Otto Leodolter from Salzburg, on the first day of competition narrowly in the lead, it was at 138 meters and ranked second.
Upside down, the German Wegscheider crashed when he lost balance on the bounce. Nevertheless, he escaped with the horrors.
Helmut Recknagel of Thuringia remained unsurpassed in attitude and style. Twice he jumped 132 meters and clinched the victory of Oberstdorf.

Date of Release:

28.02.1961

Year of Production:

1961

Camera Work:

Hafner, Anton; Jürgens; Pahl, Georg; Vlasdeck, Willy

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH

Source Foreign Material:

Belgavox; Polygon; Pathé Journal; No-Do; Cine Sound; Sucesos; Metro

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German