UFA NR 449 [Main Title]

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  • Title: UFA NR 449 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: GWY 120
  • Other titles: UFA AUSLANDSTONWOCHE NR 449 [Alternative Title]
  • Summary:
  • Description: I. Byrd's Antarctic expedition. US Admiral's Jacob Ruppert approaches ice pack near South Pole and disembarks vehicle. Two cameramen film with hand-cranked cameras. Views of basking whales, penguins and walrus. Husky-drawn sledge sets off. II. Frozen Danube. Ice floes drift down the Danube past the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest, Rumanians use dynamite to clear frozen Danube to shipping. III. Lumbermen in Bavarian Alps. Lumbermen ease timber free in mountain ravine so that force of dammed-up stream propels logs down falls in Berchtesgaden region. IV. Traditional Easter ceremonies in Bohemia-Moravia. Preservation of traditional customs in Protectorate is evident in Easter ceremonies in village, where women in local customs paint eggs and villagers follow priests towards church. V. German manufacture of shatter-proof glass. Factory scenes show production of laminated glass sheets and manufacture of motorist's eyeshields. Use of glass in battle conditions is tested by soldier who fires at and shatters screen without breaking it. VI. German naval school instructional scenes. Thorough training of young German sailors includes lessons in physics, chemistry and technical drawing. Sailors study in classroom and engine-room, then practise naval gunnery firing from a moving platform by the coast. (End of Reel 1) VII. German mountain artillery exercise. 7.5cm GebK 15 mountain gun is dismantled and hauled up a rock escarpment in the Mittelgebirge then reassembled for firing. VIII. German cyclist company on manoeuvres. Cyclist troops take cover off the road as four Messerschmitt Bf 109Es swoop low in mock attack. Flak team fire tripod-mounted MG 34, then men don gasmasks before proceeding on cycles. IX. German attack exercise on Western Front. Soldiers cross Rhine by rubber dinghy, transporting cycles and Pak 3.7cm gun. Soldier arms himself before exercise with stick grenade and Luger. Sappers advance through woods towards no man's land, protected by MG 34 and Pak 3.7cm 35/36. Library film from ground shows simultaneous Stuka attack, then shock troops press forward rapidly, supported by MG 34 and artillery and flamethrower fire "to occupy enemy positions".
  • Alternative Title: UFA AUSLANDSTONWOCHE NR 449 [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: GWY 120
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM-GERMAN Attribution: IWM – GWY 120
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1940-04
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Production Details: UFA (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Byrd, Richard E (person) German Navy, Training School (regiment/service) German Army, Gebirgsjager (regiment/service) German Army, cyclists (regiment/service) German Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: animals, birds: penguin (object name) animals, mammals: whale (object name) animals, mammals: walrus (object name) journalism and record, United States - cameraman (object name) sciences, United States - earth: Antarctic expedition (object name) ships, United States civilian - STR: Jacob Ruppert (object name) operations, Rumanian civilian - maintenance: ice clearing on Danube (object name) agriculture, German - arable: forestry (object name) celebrations, Czechoslovak - customary: Easter (object name) religion, Christianity - ceremonial, Czechoslovak: Easter (object name) industry, German - general: glass (shatter-proof) (object name) training, German naval (object name) training, German - weapons: gunnery (object name) training, German - weapons: mountain artillery (object name) weapons, German - gun: 7.5cm GebK 15 (object name) aircraft, German - combat: Messerschmitt Bf 109E (object name) equipment, German military - personal: gasmask (object name) training, German - combat: anti-aircraft (object name) transport, German military - 2/3 wheel: bicycle (object name) weapons, German - smallarm (mounted): 7.92mm le MG 34 [AA] (object name) aircraft, German - combat: Junkers Ju 87 Stuka (object name) training, German - combat (object name) weapons, German - gun: 3.7cm Pak 35/36 (object name) weapons, German - smallarm: 7.92mm le MG 34 (object name) weapons, German - smallarm: 9mm P 08 Luger (object name) Antarctica (geography) Hungary & Budapest <Parliament> (geography) Hungary & Danube (River) (geography) Rumania & Danube (River) (geography) Germany & Berchtesgaden area, Bavaria (geography) Czechoslovakia & Bohemia-Moravia <Protectorate> (geography) Germany (geography) Germany & Mittelgebirge (geography) Germany (geography) Germany & Rhine (River) (geography) Germany & <Western Front> (geography) Winter (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: Spanish Title language: Spanish Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 2 Footage: 1241 ft; Running time: 14 mins
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