UFA NR 534 [Main Title]

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  • Title: UFA NR 534 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: GWY 150
  • Other titles: UFA AUSLANDSTONWOCHE NR 534 [Alternative Title]
  • Summary:
  • Description: I. Start of winter semester at Barcelona University. Minister of Education Ibanez Martin as Franco's representative arrives outside University and is greeted by two star general. Students stand aligned beside banner of Falangist Sindicato Español Universitario and are inspected by Martin. Church dignitaries give Falangist salute. Opening ceremony takes place inside large hall, where front seats are filled by members of the armed forces and church dignitaries. II. Royal opening of National Swedish Workers' Institute. King Gustav V arrives to look round Institute's different departments before taking his seat for the opening ceremony. King is accompanied by Prince Gustav Adolf and Princess Sibylla. III. Restoration of Mozart House in Prague. On 150th anniversary of composer's death dilapidated house in Bertramhof is being renovated according to original plans "in order to have a working monument to his memory in the Protectorate". Bust of Mozart, front sheet of Don Giovanni score, theatre bill for 1825 performance and set for final act are also shown. IV. French artists visit Breker's state atelier in Berlin. French painters and sculptors visiting Germany in order to become acquainted with contemporary plastic and graphic artists meet Professor Arno Breker, seen working in his studio on Force. Standing by Apollo Fountain horses, Charles Despiau, bearded Aristide Maillol and Paul Belmondo, together with painters Vlaminck and Van Dongen, chat with Breker. Bust of Richard Wagner is visible to right of Belmondo. V. Winter Congress of Flemish Youth in Brussels. Leader of Jong-Dinaso Dr Edgar Lehembre presents "medals for faithfulness to several youths" to uniformed members of the youth section of the Flemish Fascist Dinaso movement. Boys in shorts and with banners then parade past Lehembre and other youth leaders. VI. German tractor production. Tractors are helping Germany become independent in foodstuffs. Vehicles are seen in production, being tested and drawing ploughs. VII. German forces prepare for winter on the Eastern Front. Animated map of Leningrad-Narva-Reval area introduces scene of construction of wooden icebreaker barriers to protect bridge over river from ice. Train carrying German reinforcements crosses bridge. New warm garments for soldiers arrive at the front. Men (Russian POWs?) load socks into trucks and provisions including meat and Tilsit cheese are unloaded for "the active forces before Leningrad". One trench is marked Bayern Hütte and a wooden hut is marked Münchner Haus SS Okt 1941 FP 32052. Wood is stacked for protection against the Russian winter. Soldiers model special winter clothing including sheepskin coats, white camouflage smocks and fur coats, boots and gloves. (End of Reel 1) VIII. German forces attack outer defensive belt of Moscow. Animated map of Moscow-Smolensk area introduces attack on deep line of positions north of Moscow. Infantry advance, houses blaze and Pak 37 fires. Tank ditches, wrecked armour and corpses in the snow represent traces of the Bolshevist defeat. One hundred kilometres from Moscow armour moves forward along "main roads in unbelievable condition". Vehicles struggle through thick mud and sludge and a tank pulls a truck through axle-deep morass. IX. German occupation of Kharkov reveals Soviet slums. Animated map of Dnepropetrovsk area introduces aerial film of Kharkov's industrial area, said to be armaments works. Fieseler Storch lands in centre of the city. "Not far from the industrial palaces are the miserable huts of the workers. Without any social aid whatsoever they vegetated and often lived under conditions not fit for an animal", as film shows a hovel and lurking cat within sight of modern buildings. X. Germans repair bridge over Dnieper. Nazi memorial commemorates date of rebuilding of Ostland Bridge (12-28 September 1941) by German sappers after it had been blown up by Russians. Swastika flies in foreground as Russians watch train pass over the railway bridge. XI. Russian prisoners of war in the Dnieper sector. Columns of prisoners from the mighty annihilation battle east of the Dnieper file endlessly past camera. Many are not in military uniform and may be rounded up civilians rather than captured soldiers. Some are bearded and of Semitic appearance, picked out in close-up. XII. Rumanian and German victors of Odessa parade in Bucharest. At start of parade by Odessa warriors King Michael decorates flags of victorious regiments and dubs Rumanian and German (Luftwaffe and Navy) officers knights of the Order of St Michael. Massive images of Hitler, Mussolini and "national leader" Marshal Antonescu are visible. King, Antonescu and Keitel as Führer's representative stand on review stand as Rumanian infantry, artillery Renault R-35(ZM) tanks and tankettes pass by followed by representative formations of the German Army, Luftwaffe and Navy. XIII. Condor attacks British convoy, Focke-Wulf 200C-3 (Kampfgeschwader 40, based at Bordeaux-Mérignac) taxies before taking off on mission to "attack and disperse a British convoy in cooperation with U-boats". Camera on board records take-off, cockpit, crew member opening thermos flask, flight over enemy rocky coast and distant convoy. Side-gunner opens fire at distant British plane before Condor releases bombs near small ships. Further strafing and bombing attacks, but no signs of U-boats to which Condor reportedly signals.
  • Alternative Title: UFA AUSLANDSTONWOCHE NR 534 [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: GWY 150
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM-GERMAN Attribution: IWM – GWY 150
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1941-11
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Production Details: UFA (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Ibanez Martin, Jose (person) Gustav V Adolf, King of Sweden (person) Gustav Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden (person) Sibylla (person) Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (person) Belmondo, Paul (person) Breker, Arno (person) Despiau, Charles (person) Dongen, Kees van (person) Vlaminck, Maurice de (person) Wagner, Richard (person) Maillol, Aristide (person) Lehembre, Edgar (person) Antonescu, Ion (person) Keitel, Wilhelm Bodewin Gustav (person) Michael, King of Romania (person) Mussolini, Benito Amilcare Andrea (person) Sindicato Espanol Universitario (regiment/service) Jong-Dinaso (regiment/service) German Army (regiment/service) German Army, Pioneers (regiment/service) German Army (regiment/service) German Air Force (regiment/service) German Navy (regiment/service) Romanian Army (regiment/service) German Air Force, Kampfgeschwader 40 (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: society, Spanish - education: Barcelona University (object name) ceremonies, Spanish - event-related: opening of Barcelona University (object name) ceremonies, Swedish - event-related: opening of National Swedish Workers' Institute (object name) delegations, Swedish national - state: Gustav V visits National Swedish Workers' Institute (object name) arts, Austrian - music: Mozart & Don Giovanni (object name) buildings, Czechoslovak - historic: Mozart House (object name) arts, German - fine arts: sculpture (object name) delegations, French international - goodwill: French painters visit Arno Breker (object name) ceremonies, Belgian - event-related: investiture (object name) agriculture, German - arable (object name) industry, German - vehicles: tractors (object name) engineering, military, German: ice barriers (object name) operations, German military - routine (object name) equipment, German military - personal: winter uniforms (object name) supplies, German, storage [FA] - misc (object name) casualties, Russian dead - battlefield (object name) defences, Russian - emplacement: anti-tank (object name) operations, German military - sortie: advance through Russia (object name) aircraft, German - light military: Fieseler Fi 156 Storch (object name) animals, mammals: cat (object name) society, Russian - domestic: slums (object name) engineering, military, British: bridge building (object name) transport, German military - rail: train (object name) prisoners of war, Russian - movement (object name) armour, French - tank: Renault R-35ZM & [Rumanian] (object name) ceremonies, Rumanian - event-related: investiture (object name) ceremonies, Rumanian - event-related: victory parade (object name) aircraft, German - combat: Focke-Wulf Fw 200C-3 Condor (object name) combat, German air - anti-ship (object name) operations, British maritime - routine: convoy (under attack) (object name) Spain & Barcelona, Catalonia <University> (geography) Atlantic Ocean (geography) Bordeaux-Merignac Airfield, Bordeaux, Gironde, France (geography) Sweden & Stockholm (geography) Czechoslovakia & Prague, Bohemia <Mozart House> (geography) Germany & Berlin, Berlin <Breker's state atelier> (geography) Brussels, Brabant, Belgium (geography) Germany (geography) Russia & Leningrad area (geography) Russia & Moscow area (geography) Russia & Dnepropetrovsk (geography) Russia & Kharkov (geography) Russia & Dnieper (River) (geography) Russia & <Ostland Bridge> (geography) Russia & Dnieper (River) area (geography) Rumania & Bucharest (geography) Russia & Odessa (geography) Deprivation (concept) Race (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 2 Footage: 1434 ft; Running time: 16 mins
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