UFA-Dabei 924/1974 09.04.1974

01 Hockenheim: formula II - race and Renault 5-11-Cup race cars in a curve into. Grandstand sold out audience, including the woman with sunglasses and hat. A racing car is leaving some of the railway. Huge clouds of dust. Hans stuck Jr. in his car No. 1 several times. The car has printed advertising of Jägermeister. Stucco, big, close, and waving. A race set, large, close for Renault 5, with alloy wheels, roll bar, new valve spring and camshaft. Converting a Renault 5 TC. Renault on a tank column. Home to the first Renault 5-11-Cup. Various recordings on the slope under the other two accidents. Renault's move. Waving the finish flag.

02. Holland: tree rescue a VW transporter goes above a large broken tree. Men (tree Surgeons) get their tools: drills, axe, and steel bars from the cars out. Rotten wood is removed, the AST ausgekernte is secured by steel clamps and ropes. Where moisture can penetrate into the tree, a drainage is applied. Tree transplant machine at work. A large tree is transplanted into a bleak high-rise settlement.

03. United States: Beep ball (baseball) for blind children breakdown off El Mundo 595/1 - same section. Various shots of the game of blind children. Blind children through baseball. Manufacture of balls. Each ball is equipped with a mini battery in hand work. Finished balls are packed. Balls must produce noise for the children. Various scenes. Audience in the stadium.

04. Germany / Berlin: Udo Lindenberg II. part of Udo Lindenberg is sitting on the wall and sings original sound. Recorded big, close. A girl with blonde hair passes several times in front of the camera. Udo Lindenberg kisses the girl. Alexander-Platz during the Youth Festival 1973 East German military March, short. Udo Lindenberg with the girls, various recordings. Barbed wire fence in Berlin, people policeman with binoculars. Intermediate editing: Meeting Willy Brandt - Willi Stoph in Kassel. Again, Udo Lindenberg on the wall sitting and singing.

Formula II race in Hockenheim and Renault 5-11-Cup camera: Jackson, fire, Rühe tree rescue origin: Polygoon beep ball for blind children origin: Fox, USIA Udo Lindenberg II. camera part: L., fire origin: DEFA, archive at the beginning and end of total length

This sport: Impressions of the Hockenheim despite the oil crisis and cost inflation: auto racing keep in the favor of the audience. 100,000 spectators were at the Hockenheim-ring II pilots Europe's best formula rushed 40 times over the course of the fast. Hans stuck Jr., whose Vater collecting race trophies before the war at home and abroad is the new star in this class.
March BMW sitting the 1.91 large young riders like a glove. From the start of he resulted in in this second round of the European Championship. Stuck won also the first run in Spain. After his second victory in Hockenheim, the 23 year old Bayer considered strongest young talent in German racing.
A racing set, which makes a toxic ski racer from a lively everyday car. The Renault had its racing debut at the Hockenheim ring in the shadow of the big 5 TL. The garden GNOME under the formula racing is equipped with alloy wheels, roll bar, new valve springs and sharp camshaft. 4 Bilstein shock absorbers are prescribed. The whole conversion kit costs less than 3,000 mark.
Main sponsor of the new class are Renault and the oil company Elf. Also the company Bilstein helps to popularize the compact hit in Germany.
Start of the first race to the Renault 5-11-Cup. 46 young drivers tested the new formula, which is established in France for a long time in Hockenheim, Germany. French riders have almost all once started in the Renault-Elf-Gordini class.
Driving ability and power of the engine are all cars equal.
Only the driver can decide the placement. At Hockenheim, some riders overestimated their talent.
Spectacular falls remained without consequences. The riders climbed unhurt from the stable of small cars.
The Renault 5-11-Pokal, which is well endowed with 300,000 mark in prize money, could be the first real apprentice class for racing enthusiasts young drivers. While environmental protection: oak moving they are called 'Tree Surgeons'. Your tools: Drills, axe, and steel. Their work is highly valued, since even the general public has recognized how important is environmental protection in industrialized countries. A mature tree absorbs the fumes of 4 cars a day and covers the daily oxygen requirement of 20 people. Trees have become precious, and their value increases with age. Everywhere in Europe to start to save the old stock of trees.
Specialists - such as here in Holland - know how you can extend the life span of rotten, rotten on trees.
Rotten wood is removed. The branch ausgekernte or root secured by steel clamps and ropes. Where moisture can penetrate into the tree, a drainage is applied.
The implementation of trees is still in its infancy.
Every day, hundreds of trees be felled because they are new roads and houses in the way. Dutch engineers developed this tree transplant machine that raises of up to 35-year-old trees and soil and again enters you in other places - a tempting opportunity to make something homely the bare stone landscape of new large settlements.

This rehabilitation: Basketball for blind children, students or hochbezhalte pros: they all operate America's national sport number 1. Also these kids play baseball. It is different only one of their peers: they are blind.
Retired employees of the US company Western Electric manufacture free of charge the most important unit of the game: the ball that you can not only see but also hear. A noise cell that are shrill beeps a built-in battery using, when the PIN into the ball comes out: a simple construction that blind baseball player in the sets, to locate the ball with the hearing.
The beeping ball has found favour with many blind children. Even the large sports arenas open them when they try on their way to emulate the 'big' baseball stars.
Instead of three, the children at the blind baseball have 5 strikes. Otherwise it's like in the great: the catcher tried to find the ball, before the Club reached the time, sends out the also acoustic signals.
Parents and sports instructors have joined forces, so that blind children in carefree play for a few hours forget their dismal lot. And it seems as if they had succeeded.

This music: "imagine..."
Udo Lindenberg, the melancholic rock Bard from the German North again throughout the country. The number of his followers is growing constantly, even the most surprised him: Udo with a love ballad in the divided Germany.

Date of Release:

09.04.1974

Year of Production:

1974

Camera Work:

Brandes, Klaus; Jürgens; Labudda; Rühe, Bernd Michael

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH

Source Foreign Material:

Polygon; DEFA; Fox; USIA

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German