Die Zeit unter der Lupe 979/1968 29.10.1968

01 Offenbach: Party Congress of the German Communist Party meeting hall, total. Cameramen. Board of Directors Bank. Close-ups of listeners. Chairman Kurt Bachmann speaks big. The audience clapping.

02. London: Anti-Viet Nam demonstration protesters on the street with posters and banners at the protest March. Scrum. Police officers to confront protesters. Tangible dispute police and protesters. Brawl. Ground screen on the street.

03. He was in Portugal Kiesinger and wife Kiesinger descend stairs and be welcomed by President Caetano, close to half. Kiesinger and Caetano step out front of the stand. Kiesinger receives awarded doctor honoris causa at the University of Coimbra. Flipping sash.

04. Italy: holiday Nachlese - tourists between Mount Vesuvius and the Adriatic Hovercraftboot runs, great. Chair lift. Young people sitting on rocks by the sea. Crater of Vesuvius and billows of smoke. Young people during archaeological excavations. Tourists lay mosaics in reconstruction of ancient patterns. Tourists on the extinct Vulkan La Soufriere. Tourists in hot sulphur caves. Egg boiling vapours. Tourists cures in the warm sulphur fumes. Presentation of fashion. Long dresses. Shiny garter belt on leg. Mirror reflections of fashion.

05. Olympic Games Mexico - III report 100 km cycling road race: cyclist on the track. Cyclists from above. Franco Vianelli / Italy, travels first through the target, total and wins the gold medal. Two kayak women: start. Annemarie Zimmermann and Roswitha Esser assumed the leadership, half-close & go first through the target. Display on board. Award ceremony. Annemarie Esser, Roswitha Zimmermann, gold medal, Hungary silver medal, USSR bronze medal. 100 m backstroke men: audience claps. Start. Swimming. The gold medal WINS Roland Matthes / Erfurt, 58.7 seconds. Diving women: jump of the gold medallist Milana Dutschkova / CSSR, ZL. Diving men: gold medal winner Klaus Dibiasi jumps ZL and WINS Medal for Italy. Boxing welterweight: Manfred cloud / East Berlin defeated Joseph Besala / Cameroon in the final and win the gold medal. Award ceremony. Cloud puts arm around Besalãº. Single ride: horse jumps into obstacle. Rider crashes. Horse gallops away and is captured. Prince Phillip and Prince Bernhard on the Auditorium, half-close. Hans Günter Winkler on Enik on the course. He is 5th young spectator sport hat, big. Marylin Coakes / England on the stroller's small horse wins the silver medal. William Steinkraus on snowbound wins the gold medal. Gymnastics men: Japanese gymnast on the rings wins the gold medal. Mikhail Voronin, USSR on the horizontal bar, ZL, wins the gold medal. Gymnastics women: Natalia Kutschinskaja turns on the balance beam and won the gold medal. Vera Caslavska / CSSR, horse jump ZL, gold, floor exercise (ZL) gold, uneven bars, ZL (gold), Vera Caslavska at award ceremony. Closing ceremony: Invasion of the flags of the countries. Olympic flag is carried out of the stadium. The Olympic flame is extinguished. Audience wave. Hats are given. Fireworks. Font Munich 72.

Information DKP party day camera: Luppa, Jürgens anti-Viet Nam protests in London origin: Pathé news Kiesinger in Portugal origin: Portugal mainly cheerful holiday gleaning Italy origin: Corona Olympics Mexico 3. report 100 km cycling road race origin: Polygoon, INA pool two kayak - women origin: Polygoon, INA-pool 100 m Rückenschimmen men origin: Polygoon, INA-pool diving women origin: Polygoon, INA-pool diving men origin: Polygoon, INA pool boxes welterweight origin: Polygoon, INA pool individual riding origin : Polygoon, INA pool gymnastics men: rings, horizontal origin: Polygoon, INA pool gymnastics women: balance beam. Vault, floor exercise, uneven bars origin: Polygoon, INA-pool closing ceremony origin: Polygoon, INA-pool at the beginning and end of total length

Details of Germany's breathe Communists. 12 years after the ban on the Communist Party, they promoted after the founding of their party under the name DKP to vote in public. Board of Directors and delegates of the German Communist Party lined up on their first National Conference at the Offenbach Stadthalle satisfied the international cameras. Her spokesman Kurt Bachmann but proved: the political objectives of the new German Communist Party largely resemble those of the old Communist Party.
Britain's anti-war formed in London's streets to the largest Viet Nam demonstration, which previously went through the British capital. During their three-hour March through the city centre, about 30,000 demonstrators initially respected the zone around the Government District and the American Embassy. Only when wanted to pull a group of 3,000 so-called Maoists and anarchists to the American Embassy, police turned against them. 30 people were dei the clashes injured, 40 arrested. It was not the feared bloody clash. Interior Minister Callaghan therefore called the March a demonstration of British common sense.
Lisbon was the target of Kurt Georg Kiesinger, who made an official visit as the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of the Portuguese Government. The political talks of the two leaders were in particular the consolidation of the Euro Atlantic community.
Concluded his 4-day visit, the Chancellor was awarded the honorary doctorate of the University of Coimbra. Kurt Georg Kiesinger received the highest German Award, which has overseas politician to Portugal after Ludwig Erhard as a second German statesman.

Mostly cheerful season finale in Italy. What does the bathroom-friendly tourist Mecca when the mercury drops? SLO-MO discovered for you, dear spectators, the other face of the Apennine peninsula, which was the destination in the first six months of this year for over 3 million German citizens alone. 1944, spewing Mount Vesuvius from Naples decided over life and death for the last time. Today the volcano heats up the business with the traveler laggards.
Culture in the fare included. Instead of amore - archaeology. The past is done in Ercolano tasty the twenty-somethings of Europe.
A puzzle game with concern - ancient mosaics are reconstructed. Flirting can be found by themselves.
He cooks up for all. In Posszuoli is the recently extinct crater of la Soufrière the advertised tourist attraction. The sulphur mines have a constant heat from 240 degrees. In the caves of sand, an egg is minutes cooking. The money is in the air - Pozzuolis sulphur fumes are the Spa proposal. Italy can invade much to occupy more than 5 billion marks due to tourism.

Mexico 68 account of the last days. The road race book Mexico's saddest record. 102 participants were forced to abandon the hot mountain air. Italian Vianelli took the gold hope the remaining 50.
Two kayak of women. The team from the Federal Republic Eater/Zimmermann distanced himself early.
With a length lead - gold for Germany, followed by Hungary and the USSR.
Hot favorite in the 100 meters backstroke: an Erfurt high school students. The 17-year old Roland Matthes slipped effortlessly from his two American pursuers.
At the age of 16 and 1 54 meters tall. Gold for the Czech Dutschkova. Best diver - the Italian Dibiasi.
Welterweight Manfred as a second Boxer attacks cloud from East Berlin after the war to the Olympic gold medal. 4:1 - point victory over Joseph Bessala of Cameroon.
The course was. None of the single hunting jumpers made it flawlessly. 5th for Hans Günter Winkler.
A first in Olympic history - an Amazon, the Englishwoman of Marion Coakes. She won the silver medal in the individual competition.
Gold for BillSteinkraus from America.
The big won Japan's gymnast team. Twice gold ahead of the Soviet Union. Voronin from the USSR was world champion on high bar can't be beat.
The graceful Russian Kuchinskaya clinched gold on the balance beam.
A Czech blonde was the star of the games, Vera Caslavska. You could book for 4 gold medals. The high point of their career is the end. The Frischgetraute wants to retire into private life.
Closing ceremony of the 19th games at University Stadium of Mexico City. 119 Nations take stock; It was a game of sporting records and political conflicts - East against West, Black versus White. It was a celebration of the underdog. Prophesy the Olympians of the Federal Republic: it must change in Germany's sports world, if we want to have chances of victory in Munich.
Hamburg, October 29, 1968

Date of Release:

29.10.1968

Year of Production:

1968

Camera Work:

Jürgens; Luppa

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH (Hamburg)

Source Foreign Material:

Polygon; Corona; Ina-Pool; Pathé News

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German