Description: I. Berlin elections. Posters (including some on Chancellory ruins); voting observed by Military Government officials, with film of all Parties' leaders voting, and voting in hospitals; vote counting: Social Democrats win.
II. Divers investigate wrecks of German ships (Cap Arcona and Tielbeck) sunk in the last days of the war with near total loss among the 7,520 prisoners on board (only 380 survived), bringing up identification documents, etc.
III. "Bilder aus aller Welt." a. Demonstration of a radio-controlled plough in England. b. Cotton-picking contest in USA. c. Boomerang demonstration by small child.
IV. Pastor Martin Niemöller speaks in Hamburg on the question of German war guilt.
V. "Streiflichter aus Deutschland." a. USAF personnel provide mobile library for German children. b. Mushroom farming in a converted Berlin air raid shelter. c. Hamburg: Deutsche Hilfsgemeinschaft collect unwanted household articles for redistribution. d. Frankfurt: bear cubs, dog and monkey taken to visit hospitalised zoo keeper.
VI. The Queen Elizabeth on the eve of her first peacetime voyage. Film of the liner in drydock, of interiors, and of the Queen and Princess Elizabeth visiting the ship.
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Niemöller, Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin (person)
Elizabeth, Queen (person)
Elizabeth, Queen (person)
Cunard White Star Line, Queen Elizabeth (RMS) (regiment/service)
Keywords: administration, Allied - occupation: Berlin elections (object name)
politics, German - establishment: elections (object name)
ships, British civilian - passenger: Queen Elizabeth (object name)
operations, German civilian - salvage: sunken ships (object name)
ships, German : Cap Arcona & [wrecked] (object name)
ships, German : Tielbeck & [wrecked] (object name)
equipment, British civilian - agricultural: plough, radio controlled (object name)
recreation, United States civilian - sport: cotton picking contest (object name)
weapons, Australian - powderless: boomerang (object name)
Germany & Berlin, Berlin (geography)
GB, England (geography)
United States of America (geography)
Germany & Hamburg, Hamburg (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: 1345 ft; Running time: 15 mins
