WELT IM FILM NO 85 [Main Title]

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  • Title: WELT IM FILM NO 85 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: WIF 85
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  • Summary:
  • Description: I. Berlin: the Sportpalast (former Nazi propaganda centre) in spite of war-damage is again used for a sporting function (ice hockey). II. General McNarney speaks in Frankfurt (surveying achievements to date and remaining tasks of military government). III. Otto Hahn (winner of Nobel prize for Physics) returns to Göttingen. The 4 previous prize winners (Windaus, von Laue, Heisenberg and Planck) congratulate Professor Otto Hahn on his return from award of Nobel Prize in Stockholm; camera records Planck's brief speech and Hahn's reply. IV. New York: end of UNO session. Byrnes speaks to delegates; film of proposed permanent UNO site in New York; Bevin and Molotov speak to the press. V. Irish cattle for Berlin: unloaded in Bremerhaven from German-manned ship, and in pens in Berlin. VI. Viennese Boy's Choir in Hamburg (a visit to the Hagenbeck zoo, and a performance). VII. "Aktuelles in Kuerze." a. Trial of Milch by US court in Nuremberg. b. Red Cross transports food parcels for German and Austrian POWs in Yugoslavia. c. Opening of new stretch of London Underground by Transport Minister Barnes. VIII. "Originelles vom Sport." a. All-in wrestling in Paris. b. 'Underwater ball'. c. Rocket propelled skis in USA.
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  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: WIF 85
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1946-1975
  • Production Date: 1947-01-10
  • Production Country: Allied Military Government
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  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: McNarney, Joseph Taggart (person) Hahn, Otto (person) Heisenberg, Werner (person) Laue, von (person) Planck, Max (person) Windaus (person) Bevin, Ernest (person) Byrnes, James F (person) Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Scriabin (person) Barnes, Alfred (person) Milch, Erhard (person) Indian Red Cross (regiment/service) United Nations (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: administration, international - civilian: United Nations Organisation (object name) administration, German - occupation: Germany (object name) reconstruction, German (object name) recreation, German civilian - sport: ice hockey (object name) celebrations, German - event-related: welcoming for Nobel prize-winner Otto Hahn (object name) sciences, German - physics (object name) agriculture, German - animal: cattle (object name) agriculture, Irish - animal: cattle (object name) operations, German maritime - routine: unloading of cattle (object name) arts, Austrian - music: Vienna Boy's Choir (object name) recreation, French civilian - sport: wrestling (object name) recreation, United States civilian - sport: skiing (rocket-propelled) (object name) ceremonies, British - event-related: opening of London Underground line (object name) law and order, Allied - judicial process: Nuremberg trials (Milch) (object name) society, international - charity: food parcels (object name) Germany & Berlin, Berlin <Sportpalast> (geography) Germany & Frankfurt (geography) Germany & Göttingen, Lower Saxony (geography) United Nations Headquarters, New York, New York, United States of America (geography) Germany & Berlin, Berlin (geography) Germany & Bremerhaven, Bremen (geography) Germany & Hamburg, Hamburg <Hagenbeck Zoo> (geography) Germany & Nuremberg, Bavaria (geography) London, England, UK (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: 1 Footage: 1270 ft; Running time: 14 mins
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