UFA-Dabei 813/1972 22.02.1972

1 Hamburg: Looking back on the flood disaster of 1962 and new levees port screen, wall made of reinforced concrete, etc. at the wharf. Pan offer of barges on the wall to the. The same setting when the tsunami flooded road. Various archival recordings by the flood disaster. Pictures of new Dyke and barrier systems. Ship sails into sheath, total. Pan on Baltic Sea Barrage, totally. Indoors. Ship sails through barrage, totally.

2 Wolfsburg: Assembly Hall at the VW plant, cars roll off the Assembly line, various settings record-VW, the 15.007.034. car. Pan across the Hall. Several cameramen. Swivel on the flower-filled Volkswagen beetle. Brass band. Speaker CEO Heiding, o-ton: "We are certainly very confident that one day passes also the 20 millionth beetle of the band.". The decorated car rolls. Intermediate cuts viewers and Werksangehörige. LEIDING in profile, close, in the crowd. Model of the Ford - "Tin Lizzie", is turning totally and detail settings. Swivel on the decorated VW Beetle.

03. Hamburg: Mikes Theodorakis at the Hamburg art factory long shot of the art factory, outside. Indoor hall. Theodorakis at the microphone, totally. Ranking ride. Several settings Theodorakis statements before the concert with lively gestures, close and big. When conducting half total and big. Theodorakis conducts Greek folk-band-O tone. Camera moves Theodorakis and his band. Theodorakis close. Actuality in French, covered by the German translation: "I don't believe in the art for a small group or to an art that is itself enough. I rather believe in an art for the masses; and therefore is me because, to establish contact and consistent with many with my music. " Theodorakis sings original sound accompaniment. Individual members of the band and singing, big and close. Views from the top on the musicians.

04. France: Lipizzaner Traforanfahrt on French riding Academy, total. In the Hall lipizzaner horses in training, total and detail shots. Slow motion shots of a Lipizzaner total at Levade combined total with a caper. still dark lipizzaner horses in the pasture, half total. Foal rises out of the grass and skips them. Head of a teenage, yet dark Brindle horse with fluttering mane. Galloping horses, legs, close. Jumping and running Lipizzaner groups on the pasture, ZL, various settings.

05. Inzell: ice Speedway-World Championship semi-final 1972 spikes are screwed on motorcycles, close. Man checks the spikes. Start the motor cycles and tracking on the artificial ice rink of links. Various settings of the race. Falls two riders who can get up again. Duel trip of the Russian Dubinin with the Sweden Kurt Westlund. Dubinin crosses the goal before Westlund. Dubinin waving big, him wreath is hung around. Intermediate cuts public.

Review of Hamburg floods of 1962 and new levees camera: Rahim origin: Archive Wolfsburg: record-VW camera: Jürgens, fire origin: archive of Mikes Theodorakis camera: L., Ahsendorf Lipizzan breeding, France origin: Gaumont ice Speedway Inzell origin: Fox at the beginning and end of total length

This report: Death has German åland's largest port city of protection on the coast 10 years after the great flood. behind a new wall from Earth. Found sand and concrete. 9 metre high walls are also available today. Where the Bank previously unprotected were delivered the force of storm and water.
These days, Hamburg takes stock against the background of that horror night of 17 February 1962, when the dike broke and the heaviest storm surge brought death and destruction for 150 years.
up to four metres were 150 sq km of the Hanseatic City in a few hours under water. The flood surprised thousands of hamburgers in sleep. 315 people were drowned, froze to death or died of exhaustion. Some deaths that have been found: they were with water from the Elbe River down in the North Sea driven.
The storm surge had caused losses of 820 million marks. Yet while the many dike intrusions makeshift sealed seals, adopted Hamburg designers a new Dyke program, to prevent greater disasters in the future equal to the. For 530 million mare were locks. Games, works and flood wall built and dikes with the help of Dutch experts straightened and increases. The Oste barrage - one of 6 new buildings, which are the Elbe River Taming. 10 years after the disaster Hamburg seems sure to storm surge.

These moments: Notes on the time world record in Wolfsburg daily life in the largest German automobile plant. Tagesproduktien: 5625 beetle. The original consumauto of the world is still in demand. This week, the Heckmobil of the Professor Porche directed reached 1932 world record: for the 15.007.034 time, a beetle for VW by the band - rolled once more than Henry Ford's famous T-model. "We are quite sure, fully confident that one day passes also the 20 millionth beetle of the band." (Applause) CEO Leiding optimistic, even though he knows: also the beetle will live forever. Actually any vehicle who once will replace the long distance runner by VW - you spoke about as successor of the beetle on the Jubilee – so the VW boss said – is overwhelmed. Only the beetle will decide How long even the beetle that natural fate can escape, that even Henry Ford's "I-Lizzie" once overtook: switching from the Assembly line at the Museum.

This music: Rebel in the major of Hamburg's "Culture factory" - since a year model for new forms of cultural communication. A concert among the highlights of the first events in the former munitions factory with Mikis Theodorakis. The Greek composer many years dedicated social is gained musical world fame through his music for the film "Alexis Sorbas". In Hamburg, he presented himself as a composer of Greek folklore. Theodorakis is also politically from talk: as a fierce opponent of the Athens military regime. He now fights after his prison time in a Greek detention location in exile for democracy in his homeland. "I don't believe in the art for a small group or an art: that itself is sufficient." "I believe instead in an art for the masses: and therefore is me because, to establish contact and consistent with many with my music."

These moments notes at the time - Levade and caper the neoclassical façade of the French equestrian Academy lead she lost your life and luxurious, as it corresponds to their booth: Lipizzaners, the aristocrats among the horses. You will never deny a rename a clean tournament. To let their only purpose: a work of art, formed after a 400-year-old rules that have been handed down in Canon of high school your life purpose, they have achieved: the Levade, combined with a caper. Lipizzaner horses were born almost black. Gradually, the hair turns. After 8 years, a Lipizzener has a white, silky shiny fur. Almost 500 of these horse are there in the world. You are Stantspensionäre your first life lesson. Because in a profit-oriented society, mere beauty is not profitable.

Spikes duels in Inzell zerschrammten 28 mm-long spikes of Inzell rink for a weekend. Where else Olympic Erhard Kelier circles his moves, Europe Speedway ACEs this time gathered ranking points for the ice Speedway World Championship in 1972. Despite Spikesbewehrter tires, nu purely holds artist in the saddle of the special machines. In cornering a piece tires protect the left knee of the driver. Ensure exclusivity of Speedway sport not least cost: none of the easy racers is among 6,000 mark. Falls are usually benign, but they drastically restrict the chances of victory. Only, who loses at most once in the 20 runs the balance, may hope to repeat the time loss in the remaining races. He start Russian Dubinin in a direct duel with his fiercest competitors Kurt Westlund from Sweden. For years, the Soviet riders dominate the sport of Speedway. Sweden first in the Soviet phalanx broke in the semi-finals in Inzell. The German driver to hold their usual places of means of. Just before Westlund, Dubinin conquered the first place in the overall standings. But the Sweden remain optimistic: because they align the World Championship final in their homeland.

Date of Release:

22.02.1972

Year of Production:

1972

Camera Work:

Brandes, Klaus; Jürgens; Labudda; Rieck, Hans Jürgen; Ahsendorf

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH

Source Foreign Material:

Gaumont; Fox

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German