UFA NR 445 [Main Title]

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  • Title: UFA NR 445 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: GWY 116
  • Other titles: UFA AUSLANDSTONWOCHE NR 445 [Alternative Title]
  • Summary:
  • Description: I. Leipzig Trade Fair. Flags of nations not at war with Germany fly outside the Ring-Messhaus where the annual Trade Fair has attracted 6,600 exhibitors. Visitors watch electric model trains and mechanical pets. Book and Paper Fair exhibits a German paper press. German development of cellulose to produce rayon is shown from viscous form to finished material. II. Anniversary of Nationalist entry into of Barcelona. Statue of female nude is unveiled to commemorate victory of Franco's Nationalist forces at Barcelona on 26 January 1939. Soldiers preceded by elderly general and admiral in vehicle parade past diplomatic representatives including German ambassador von Stohrer and Italian ambassador, as well as Franco wearing beret, and bishop. III. Deep snow in Western Japan. Japanese battle to clear snow from roads and railways in western part of Honshu. Train pulls into snow-covered Takada station. IV. Finno-Russian war. Finnish troops, some on skis, warm themselves against the bitter cold before firing a small field gun across the snow. V. Frozen coast off Holland. Fishing boats stand frozen in the sea. VI. Skiing competition between Hitler Youth and young Italians. Scenes from the slalom and ski-jump events at Garmisch Partenkirchen. Olympic symbol from 1936 is visible on the jump. Spectators include head of Italian youth movement with Blackshirt girls and smiling members of the SS. VII. Visit of Sumner Welles to Italy and Germany. US Under Secretary of State disembarks at Genoa before talks with Italian Foreign Minister Ciano. Statesmen pose. Roosevelt's envoy later arrives at Berlin by train and proceeds through outer courtyard of the Chancellory en route for talks with Hitler (not seen). VIII. New Russian ambassador to Slovakia. New Soviet Ambassador to Slovakia arrives to present his credentials to President Tiso in dog collar and cassock. IX. German torpedo boats refuel at sea. Three torpedo boats move through ice-covered North Sea, then one refuels from supply vessel. X. German Army reconnaissance mission on Western Front. Reconnaissance patrol in snow camouflage moves across barbed wire and through snowy woods to sound of bullets on track. Soldiers return with wounded French prisoner on stretcher. XI. German tank manoeuvres on Western Front. Line of Pzkpfw I, II, III and IVs crosses snow-covered open country in exercise. Infantry advance in close support and fire a flamethrower in distance.
  • Alternative Title: UFA AUSLANDSTONWOCHE NR 445 [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: GWY 116
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM-GERMAN Attribution: IWM – GWY 116
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1940-03
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Production Details: UFA (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Stohrer, Eberhard von (person) Welles, Sumner (person) Ciano, Galeazzo (person) Tiso, Jozef (person) Spanish Army (regiment/service) Finnish Army (regiment/service) DE.S (regiment/service) Hitler Youth (regiment/service) Gioventu Italiana del Littorio (regiment/service) German Navy (regiment/service) German Army (regiment/service) German Army, Panzerkorps (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: economics, German general - fairs: Leipzig Trade Fair (object name) industry, German - clothing: rayon (object name) ceremonies, Spanish - event-related: anniversary of Nationalist entry into Barcelona, 1st (object name) ceremonies, Spanish - event-related: unveiling of statue (object name) operations, Japanese civilian - relief: snow clearance (object name) transport, Japanese civilian - rail (object name) operations, Finnish military - sortie (object name) society, Dutch - domestic: winter seascape (object name) ships, Dutch civilian - fishing (object name) recreation, German military - sport: skiing (object name) recreation, Italian military - sport: skiing (object name) delegations, US international - political (object name) ceremonies, Soviet - state (object name) ceremonies, Slovak - state (object name) supplies, German, movement - pol (object name) ships, German - escort (object name) operations, German military - sortie (object name) prisoners of war, French - movement (object name) training, German - combat: armoured (object name) armour, German - tank: Pzkpfw I (object name) armour, German - tank: Pzkpfw II (object name) armour, German - tank: Pzkpfw III (object name) armour, German - tank: Pzkpfw IV (object name) weapons, German - CBW: flamethrower (object name) 01/5(480) (event) Germany & Leipzig, Saxony <Ring-Messhaus> (geography) Spain & Barcelona, Catalonia (geography) Japan & Takada, Honshu <railway station> (geography) Finland (geography) Netherlands (geography) Germany & Garmisch Partenkirchen, Bavaria (geography) Italy (geography) Germany & Berlin, Berlin (geography) Czechoslovakia & Slovakia (geography) North Sea (geography) Germany & <Western Front> (geography) Winter (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: Dutch Title language: Dutch Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 1171 ft; Running time: 13 mins
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