LACHENDES LEBEN : 10 Minuten froehliche Gymnastik [Main Title]

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  • Title: LACHENDES LEBEN : 10 Minuten froehliche Gymnastik [Main Title]
  • Film Number: GWY 719
  • Other titles: LAUGHING LIFE : 10 minutes of happy gymnastics [Translation]
  • Summary: Film publicises the joys of outdoor gymnastics for young German women.
  • Description: Separate groups of girls, some wearing swastika vests and others dressed in folk or dance costumes, perform simple graceful exercises on a sports field edged by woods and a swastika-bedecked monumental facade. Girls also play a tug-of-war style game calling for more combative spirit and muscular strength than grace. Singing, music and joyful laughter on the soundtrack make these exercises for physical fitness seem an enjoyable form of relaxation.
  • Alternative Title: LAUGHING LIFE : 10 minutes of happy gymnastics [Translation]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: GWY 719
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM-GERMAN Attribution: IWM – GWY 719
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1940
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Production Details: Deutsche Arbeitsfront Kraft durch Freude Reichspropaganda-amt Abt.-Film (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: recreation, German civilian - sport: gymnastics (object name) society, German - ethnic (object name) Germany (geography) propaganda (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: German Title language: German Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 471 ft; Running time: 5 mins
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    GWY 719

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