UFA NR 441 [Main Title]

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  • Title: UFA NR 441 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: GWY 112
  • Other titles: UFA AUSLANDSTONWOCHE NR 441 [Alternative Title]
  • Summary:
  • Description: I. Restoration of Prague church. Early Baroque Church of St Ignatius is restored by workers on scaffolding. II. Building mountain road in Austria. Workers overcome steep terrain to build 3 kilometre stretch of Flexenstrasse which will link the Lechtal with Innsbruck and the Vorarlberg. III. Variété and circus-style acts. Various acts by acrobats, girl contortionists, girls balancing on big balls (Scala Girls) and jugglers on bicycles are shown with musical accompaniment but no commentary. IV. Arabs fire from horseback in Spanish Moroccan spectacle. V. Japanese skiers climb Mount Fujiyama. Increasing popularity of skiing in Japan is illustrated by men and women ascending Fujiyama and stopping outside hut marked in German Fuji-Hutte. VI. International winter sports week in Garmisch Partenkirchen. Despite war eight nations participate in winter sports event. Scenes from the Langlauf, women's slalom won by Christel Cranz and ski jump from the Olympic ramp flanked by swastika flags. (End of Reel 1) VII. Volksdeutsche from Russia return to Reich. Largest emigration of modern times continues with arrival in Germany from Eastern Europe of some 135,000 Volksdeutsche whose ancestors settled in Russia. Germans from Volynia in Western Russia arrive by horsecarts through snow beneath banner reading Grossdeutschland grüsst Euch. One cart is covered by traditional patterned fabric. Refugees, dressed in furs and traditional costume against cold, receive soup from street kitchen. Smiling child poses with St Bernard dog in snow. (Reception point is on German-Russian demarcation line through former Poland.) VIII. Military attachés watch German Army exercise. Attachés from various states including Japan and the USSR stand in the snow watching attack exercise by infantry battalion across snow, supported by artillery fire from 15cm s IG 33 and 7.5cm le IG 18 in background. Soldier fires MG 34 on tripod in snow. (Site is Döberitz outside Berlin.) IX. German soldiers visit coal mine in Ruhr. Soldiers from Western Front visit mine, seeing miners with pneumatic drills at the underground workface. Small trucks are loaded with coal, carted to surface and dispatched by rail. X. Construction of petrol processing plant in North Germany. Construction of giant dehydration plant will enable Germany to process petrol from coal and become self-sufficient in fuel. Storage tanks and pipes cover the new site. Elsewhere soldiers move petrol drums and jerry cans, suggesting fuel necessary for Pzkpfw IIIAs hauled onto tank transporter. XI. German seaplanes patrol North Sea. Heinkel He 115, with three ducks nose emblem and mascot dog on float, is launched. Several He 115s fly low over the North Sea and crew drink beverage on board. Small trawler described as British comes into view but is not attacked by German plane which continues its patrol.
  • Alternative Title: UFA AUSLANDSTONWOCHE NR 441 [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: GWY 112
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM-GERMAN Attribution: IWM – GWY 112
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1940-02
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Production Details: UFA (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Cranz, Christel (person) German Air Force (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: arts, Czechoslovak - decorative arts: restoration (object name) engineering, civil, Austrian: road building (object name) recreation, German civilian - theatre: variété (object name) society, Moroccan - ethnic (object name) recreation, Japanese - sport: skiing (object name) recreation, German civilian - sport: skiing (object name) refugees, German - relocation (object name) training, German - combat (object name) weapons, German - gun: 15cm s IG 33 (object name) weapons, German - gun: 7.5cm le IG 18 (object name) weapons, German - smallarm: 7.92mm le MG 34 (object name) recreation, German military - tourism (object name) industry, German - primary: mining (object name) engineering, civil, German: processing plant (object name) industry, German - chemical: petrol processing (object name) aircraft, German - seaplane: Heinkel He 115 (object name) operations, German air - sortie: maritime reconnaissance (object name) Czechoslovakia & Prague, Bohemia <Saint Ignatius Church> (geography) Austria & Arlberg Pass, Vorarlberg (geography) Germany & Arlberg Pass, Vorarlberg (geography) Morocco (geography) Japan & Mount Fuji, Honshu (geography) Germany & Garmisch Partenkirchen, Bavaria (geography) Russia & Volynia (geography) Poland (geography) Germany & Doberitz (geography) Germany & Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia (geography) Germany (geography) North Sea (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: French Title language: French Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 2 Footage: 1151 ft; Running time: 13 mins
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    GWY 112

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