UFA NR 451 [Main Title]

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  • Title: UFA NR 451 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: GWY 122
  • Other titles: UFA AUSLANDSTONWOCHE NR 451 [Alternative Title]
  • Summary:
  • Description: I. Yacht race in Genoa harbour. Small yachts sail in the harbour at Genoa. II. German amphibious car. New car demonstrates its versatility across country and water before mounting steps into town. III. Opening of horse racing flat season at Karlshorst. Horses race at Berlin's main course. IV. Folk dancing in Protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia. Villagers dance traditional steps to the accompaniment of violin and clarinet, demonstrating the preservation of old customs. V. German female gymnastics championship in Leipzig. VI. Dutch Air Raid Precaution exercise in Amsterdam. Civilians take cover during a practice alert, while city's canals provide firemen with water for their hoses. VII. Albanian mountain ski troops train with Italian Army. Albanians put on skis during a training course for chasseurs alpins. Soldiers fire from prone position in snow then advance. VIII. German cable production. Scenes during the production of wire cable, a main German export which has not been diminished by the war. IX. German pharmaceutical production. High quality of German pharmaceutical products is known worldwide. Inside the Bayer factory aspirins are produced, packed and crated, with cases marked to Copenhagen, Zurich, Dairen, Budapest, Zagreb and Amsterdam. (End of Reel 1) X. Tank exercise behind Siegfried Line. Pzkpfw IVs take part in exercise over open country, first fired at and then supported by 3.7cm Pak and MG 34s. Infantry rush forward through wood and artillery supports the practice attack, which ends as troops penetrate anti-tank defences under cover of a smokescreen. XI. German protection of Denmark consolidated. Bridge linking Jutland to Funen, built by German engineers, is now under German guard. In Copenhagen men and matériel are unloaded in the port, German soldiers riding off in a clearly marked Danish truck. King Christian X takes his normal ride, saluted by both Danish civilian and German soldier. German military commander Generalleutnant von Kaupisch receives members of the foreign press indoors. XII. German protection of Norway consolidated. Junkers Ju 52/3m flies over snow-capped mountains and another passes low overhead above pine trees. Heinkel He 111Hs fly over seabase on Norwegian coast with He 59s moored. Men and matériel are unloaded from Ju 52s at Fornebu airbase outside Oslo, where a ball of smoke beyond runway is described as a shot-down British Sunderland. Bf 109s pass low overhead in squadron formation. German transport vessels sail under the protection of Scharnhorst, Möwe Class torpedo boat and Leberecht Maass class destroyer. Oil covered survivors of HMS Glowworm are rescued from sea and hosed down. Flak opens against a British plane "shot down before it could release a single bomb". In port Pzkpfw IIs and horses are disembarked from Buenos Aires. In Oslo Germans parade through streets, past Deanna Durbin poster for "Her First Love" and sign Holmenkobanen, playing the Badenweiler March and "quickly establishing peaceful contact with the people". German soldier poses with smiling Norwegian girls.
  • Alternative Title: UFA AUSLANDSTONWOCHE NR 451 [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: GWY 122
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM-GERMAN Attribution: IWM – GWY 122
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1940-04
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Production Details: UFA (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Christian X, King of Denmark (person) Kaupisch, Leonhard von (person) Air Raid Protection, Netherlands (regiment/service) Albanian Army, Mountain Troops (regiment/service) Royal Italian Army & [mountain troops] (regiment/service) Bayer (regiment/service) German Army, Panzers (regiment/service) German Army (regiment/service) German Navy, Scharnhorst (regiment/service) German War Navy, Leberecht Maass Class, destroyer (regiment/service) Royal Navy, Glowworm (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: recreation, Italian civilian - sport: yachting (object name) transport, German civilian - amphibious: car (object name) recreation, German civilian - sport: horse racing (object name) recreation, Czechoslovak civilian - dance (object name) society, Czechoslovak - ethnic (object name) recreation, German civilian - sport: gymnastics (object name) society, Dutch - precautionary: air raid precautions (object name) training, Albanian military - specialist: mountain warfare (object name) industry, German - general: cable (object name) industry, German - chemical: pharmaceutical (object name) combat [simulated], German (object name) training, German - combat: armoured (object name) administration, German - occupation: Denmark (object name) journalism and record, international: press (object name) supplies, German, movement [FA] - misc (object name) aircraft, German - combat: Messerschmitt Bf 109E (object name) aircraft, German - transport: Junkers Ju 52/3m (object name) arts, German - music: Badenweiler march (object name) defences, German - emplacement: anti-aircraft (object name) operations, German naval - rescue (object name) ships, German auxiliary - transport: Buenos Aires (object name) ships, German naval - battleship: Scharnhorst (object name) ships, German naval - destroyer: Leberecht Maass Class (object name) ships, German naval - escort: torpedo boat Mowe Class (object name) Italy & Genoa, Liguria <harbour> (geography) Germany & Berlin, Berlin <Karlshorst race course> (geography) Czechoslovakia & Bohemia-Moravia <Protectorate> (geography) Germany & Leipzig, Saxony (geography) Netherlands & Amsterdam, NH (geography) Italy & Dolomite Mountains (geography) Germany & <Western Front> (geography) Denmark & Copenhagen (geography) Denmark & Little Belt (geography) Norway & Oslo (geography) Norway & Oslo area <Fornebu airfield> (geography)
  • 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: 1658 ft; Running time: 18 mins
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