UFA NR 489 [Main Title]

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  • Title: UFA NR 489 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: GWY 139
  • Other titles: UFA AUSLANDSTONWOCHE NR 489 [Alternative Title]
  • Summary:
  • Description: I. New Year's audience at Danish Royal Palace. Exterior view of the snow-covered Royal Palace and changing of the royal guard. Diplomats' vehicles arrive for the traditional reception by the king (not seen). One car bears a German general. II. Hungarian-Yugoslav Treaty. Hungarian Foreign Minister Count Csaky arrives by train in Belgrade for the signature of the treaty and is greeted by his Yugoslav counterpart Cincar-Markovic. Two statesmen with their wives walk along platform, then pose to be filmed smiling. III. New Argentinian Minister in Madrid. Car bearing Dr Escobar arrives outside the Royal Palace in Madrid flanked by Spanish African Lancers as outriders. Members of the Falange and students waving flags of the Sindicato Español Universitario Madrid section of salute. Bald and moustachioed Argentinian envoy Dr Escobar walks forward to present his credentials to Franco (not seen), then departs by car. IV. Variety performance for Italian workers in Berlin. Italian workers who have rewarding employment in Germany sit watching various turns in the Deutschlandhalle. Entertainment includes gymnastics, trapeze artistes and a comic imitating a taxi. V. Bicycle football in Switzerland. Game of football played by men on bicycles ends with St Gallen defeating Zurich team. (End of Reel 1) VI. Construction of hydroelectric dam in Poland. Construction scenes on a dam in the Government General which will both generate hydroelectric power and protect 2000 hectares from flooding. VII. Surveying Prague. Different survey work done on a bridge and side of the building is preliminary to the intended large scale rebuilding of the capital of the Protectorate. VIII. Red Cross centre in Geneva. Volunteers administer the vast filing card system which helps friend and foe alike. German and British services and Belgian card index are shown, as well as the letter distribution centre. IX. Japanese seaplanes attack Chinese positions. Nakajima E8N2 takes off from Lake P'o Yang hu in order to attack enemy targets approximately 100 kilometres west of Chiu-Chiang on the Yangtse River. Three E8N2s fly in formation before peeling away and bombing target. X. U-boat construction and launching. General scenes of soldering and riveting in one of the German submarine yards where output is running at capacity. Type VII U-boats are launched, one stern first and another sideways. One has a bowcutter. XI. Italian battleships intercept Royal Navy. Aerial view of Vittorio Veneto and sea-level bow views of Andrea Doria and Giulio Cesare represent the Italian naval force which reportedly engaged a British squadron south of Sardinia. Forward twin and triple and rear triple turrets open fire and shells land in sea. Unsteady film shows two destroyer escorts manoeuvring at speed. (Presumably represents Operation Collar of Cape Teulada.) XII. German reconnaissance flight over Southern England. Map of Southern England indicates flight path over Kent. Photo reconnaissance camera is placed in Messerschmitt Bf 110 of Aufklärungsgruppe 14, which taxies before flying over the English Channel and landing back at base. Camera magazine is removed and film developed. Magnification reveals damage to port (Southampton) and Lympne Airfield, bombed the previous day.
  • Alternative Title: UFA AUSLANDSTONWOCHE NR 489 [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: GWY 139
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM-GERMAN Attribution: IWM – GWY 139
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1941-01
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Production Details: UFA (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Cincar-Markovic, Aleksander (person) Cincar-Markovic, Aleksander (Mrs) (person) Csaky, Stefan (Count) (person) Csaky (Countess) (person) Escobar, Adrian (person) Spanish Army & Spanish African Lancers (regiment/service) Falange (regiment/service) Sindicato Espanol Universitario (regiment/service) Swiss Red Cross (regiment/service) Imperial Japanese Navy & Naval Air Force (regiment/service) Italian Royal Navy, Andrea Doria (regiment/service) Italian Royal Navy, Bolzano (regiment/service) Italian Royal Navy, Giulio Cesare (regiment/service) Italian Royal Navy, Vittorio Veneto (regiment/service) German Air Force, Aufklarungsgruppe 14 (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: ceremonies, Danish - customary: New Year diplomatic reception (object name) delegations, Hungarian international - political: Count Csaky visits Hungary (object name) delegations, Argentinian international - political: Escobar visits Madrid (object name) economics, German national - employment: foreign workers, Italian (object name) recreation, German civilian - theatre: circus (object name) recreation, Swiss civilian - sport: bicycle football (object name) engineering, civil, Czechoslovak: surveying (object name) society, Swiss, charity: Red Cross centre, Geneva (object name) aircraft, Japanese naval - seaplane: Nakajima E8N2 (object name) combat, Japanese - air raid (object name) industry, German - ships: submarines (object name) ships, German naval - submarine: Type VII (object name) ships, Italian naval - battleship: Andrea Doria (object name) ships, Italian naval - battleship: Giulio Cesare (object name) ships, Italian naval - battleship: Vittorio Veneto (object name) ships, Italian naval - cruiser: Bolzano (object name) ships, Italian naval - cruiser: Trento Class (object name) operations, Italian naval - sortie (object name) aircraft, German - combat: Messerschmitt Bf 110 (object name) intelligence, military, German - reconnaissance (object name) Denmark (geography) Yugoslavia & Belgrade, Serbia (geography) Spain & Madrid, New Castile (geography) Germany & Berlin, Berlin <Deutschlandhalle> (geography) Switzerland & Zurich (geography) Poland (geography) Czechoslovakia & Prague, Bohemia (geography) Switzerland & Geneva <International Red Cross> (geography) China & P'o Yang Hu (Lake) (geography) China & Chiu-Chiang area (geography) Mediterranean Sea (geography) Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK (geography) GB, England & Lympne <airfield> (geography)
  • 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: 2 Footage: 1180 ft; Running time: 13 mins
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