UFA-Wochenschau 282/1961 19.12.1961

Advance cinema commercial (per l pan with Christmas range and cinema tickets) 01 Baden-Baden. Award of the "athletes d. year" (s. 621 - NDW and.) Section) 02 Nuremberg. Athlete portrait - Karl Friedrich Haas - Haas sitting in Office, with his family in Living room, scrolls in writing his memories, as a trainer of young sprinters in the gym and on training, archive footage of one of his runs.

The time lapse 03 Jerusalem. Eichmann is sentenced. -Guard soldier close outside courthouse (non-illuminated), people at passage in the Atrium their passports showing above, close, COP scans man in a narrow cell, close, A few jg. "People by wire mesh seeing close, COP pits when cell, courtroom, the High Court Eichmann, settles down, close in his cell (interview):" I've had to bend me the prescribed Government revaluation of values. I would now ask the Jewish people I apologize and confess that shame falls over me at the Memorial of the injustice Which one happened to the Jews, and the deeds Which one perpetrated on them. "But given the judgment reasons this would be deemed me probably only hypocrisy."

04. Dar es Salaam / Tanganyika. Independence. -Half close, close, 2 heads v. Tanganyika applauding indigenous women Prinz Philipp Gangway coming down, welcome by A few statesmen on airfield, div. presented document settings dancing and drumming of the natives, Philipp go, hand in hand about a place, smiling close, gr. Ship illuminated on (at night) seen from coast, nächtl. Military parade, Fireworks.

05. England. Sit-down strike of the opponent of nuclear weapons. -The demonstrators sitting (before military airport, various settings police protesters dissipate.

06. Rome. Marie celebration on the Piazza di Spagna. -Pope in crowd out car, div. Settings fröhl. Groups of people, including nuns of balcony waving, close to half the Pope b. blessing and incense dispersion.

07. children from all over the world Munich. Photo exhibition. -Div feeds images of sad, mournful, anxious and begging children, div. archive photographs of Asian children, including naked Japanese child at the roadside sitting, her son in the arm using chopsticks, children stretch the arms begging up, upper half of the face of a man, screen. -Crying Negro boy on himself while carousel, archive recording of Chinese children playing, happy child on the arm of his mother, close is by wire mesh, close, boy.
Interviews (interview) with various children by Esterer and Wichmann. Children respond to the question, what they would do with 2 DM, if they had them, various settings exhibition visitors before the pictures, Archivaufnähme children behind window in. Once.

"The scale" UFA commercial title brand 5, 8 m athlete of the year; Graf trips, Heidi Schmid, Germar camera: Luppa, strong death sentence for Eichmann origin: Metro PR. Philip b. independence celebrations in Tanganyika origin: Pathe news sit-in d. nuclear bomb opponents (Engld.)
Origin: Pathe news Marie celebration m. Papst Joh. XXIII. origin: iNcom children from all over the world (m. interviews) camera: Vlasdeck, Seib, Jackson finally brand 3, 1 m

The sports report best of the year begins our sports report with the sympathetic face. the fencing world champion and Olympic gold medalist Heidi Schmid. She was elected to the Sportswoman of the year in Baden-Baden. -The mother of count Berghe von trips could take the badge of honor of the athlete of the year for her mortally injured son. The German sports press subsequently awarded the equally successful as exemplary racers with their choice.
On behalf of the team of the year, the 1st FC Nuremberg, team leader Maxl Morlock accepted a valuable trophy for the man as a precaution had billed for a guard of honor. The young and ambitious team of the Club has to owe their choice first and foremost, the German Championship.
Almost good tradition is the market leader of Manfred Germars in the ranking of the sportsman of the year. This time, he was elected on the second place. The portrait of a former team-mate of Germars, Karl Friedrich Haas, said ADE the cinder track long ago. In Nuremberg the 30th operates today as an engineer. His spare time is one of his two children and his wife, the German pentathlon champion Maria Sturm. For them and for all those who have not forgotten the successful and popular athletes, Haas writes in his memoirs. You will report Once again by the thrilling battles, in which the spurten huge Haas won titles and Championships and finish with the silver medal in Melbourne.
His rich, athletic experience provides Karl-Friedrich Haas the sprinter young of his club coach free of charge. He gave up more Not yet running. He operates it for his own enjoyment.
In contrast to other his colleagues Karl-Friedrich Haas never happened to the idol of the masses. For he, where he ran was celebrated as a great and likeable sportsman - and as a sprinter with the far most beautiful running style.

In motion one of the most fiercely guarded processes of our time ended now in Jerusalem. Once again, world press and audience, crowded around to see Which one would verdict against Adolf Eichmann. After Eichmann was a whole epoch, was the international phenomenon of the extermination of a whole tribe. However, were the Israelis alone about Eichmann, not Germany. They chopped down the death sentence after a correct and legally correct process, for this, they deserve our admiration. The defendant had the final word. Hard and clinking against the cold and. Cynicism were his words in the Hall.
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Prince Philipp was warmly welcomed guest as representative of the Queen of England was preparing the British colony Tanganyika, to begin a new chapter of its history with the Declaration of independence. See the jubilation of dance joyous Africans dismissed Prince Philipp in Dar es Salaam this once German colony to independence.
The youngest African State does the step to freedom probably prepared by wise mandate policy. In the future, England and Tanganyika will be associated in the Commonwealth.
Thanks to the befeuernden power of a belief these English are likely to have survived it, to eat their lunch in hard frozen landscape, the Committee of the nuclear bomb opponents had staged a sit-in outside a military airport. So Very much you may agree with this demonstration for moral reasons – it seems to us that it rests you to Very much on the shoulders of the police and too little on the conscience of the Eastern leaders.
Humanity prays that a nuclear war spared her. On the Piazza di Spagna in Rome, the faithful gathered together with Pope John XXIII. to the Virgin Mary to pray. Throughout the Catholic World, the pre-Christmas Marie celebrations are an annual focal point of veneration of the mother of Jesus Christ.

Future children from all over the world children from all over the world are the subject of an impressive exhibition in Munich for the best photographers in the world have provided their best images of children.
Children from all over the world, their fear and their woes, their fear and their abandonment, To find again in the recordings of our cameramen. There are moments on the edge of an often gruesome events, but they tell the viewer more than all the words about misery and grief, - as well as about human security and human Lostness.
From all faces speaks great amazement about a world that now Not yet comprehend them, that one day but must understand it, and speaks the pain they suffer and the many big and small miracles. Whether white or yellow or Brown, everywhere on this earth, the children of this world have same grief and the answers to a question we asked a city on a December afternoon in the playground showed same secret desires, and how Very much the longing looks like, us: (original sound), which have become old in honor, just the look remains in the face of as A lot of charming innocence back in time, when everything was still promise and full of Nice possibilities.

Date of Release:

19.12.1961

Year of Production:

1961

Camera Work:

Jürgens; Luppa; Seib, Gerhard; Starke, Rainer; Vlasdeck, Willy

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH

Source Foreign Material:

Incom; Metro; Pathé News

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German