WELT IM FILM NO 53 [Main Title]

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  • Title: WELT IM FILM NO 53 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: WIF 53
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  • Summary:
  • Description: I. "Statesmen on the move." a. Smuts visits Berlin (arrives at airport, looks at ruins of Chancellory) and Hamburg. b. Field Marshal Alexander (in morning dress) takes up Governor-Generalship of Canada, in Ottawa. II. "Pictures of the reconstruction": ceremonial openings of repaired railway bridge in Cologne and road bridge in Mannheim. III. Sport. a. Football in Berlin Olympic Stadium: British forces beat Sheffield United. b. Weigh-in for the Billy Conn - Joe Louis boxing match. c. Marathon race run in Massachusetts. IV. Japanese elections: speeches, rallies, polling; Yoshida wins. V. Trial (in Dachau) of 74 Leibstandarte SS 'Adolf Hitler' men for Malmédy massacre; good sequence, including court scenes, VI. Prague: former SS police chief Karl Frank on trial (sorting of evidence; court scenes); sentenced to death. VII. Mass production (mechanised and manual) of pencils. VIII. "Bilder aus aller Welt." a. Solar observatory in Colorado USA, including film taken by the observatory. b. American cannon-billiards expert demonstrating skills. c. Animal Hospital in Salzburg: a vet at work, including dentistry on a horse.
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  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: WIF 53
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1946-1975
  • Production Date: 1946-05-27
  • Production Country: Allied Military Government
  • Production Details:
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Alexander, Harold (1st Earl Alexander of Tunis) (person) Smuts, Jan Christiaan (person) Conn, Billy (person) Yoshida (person) Louis, Joe (person) Lary, Virgil (person) Frank, Karl Hermann (person)
  • Keywords: law and order, Czech - judicial process: trial of Karl Frank (object name) ceremonies, Canadian - event-related: swearing in of Governor-General (object name) delegations, South African international - state: Smuts visits Germany (object name) ceremonies, German - event-related: re-opening of bridges (object name) reconstruction, German (object name) recreation, British military - sport: football (British forces v Sheffield United in Berlin) (object name) recreation, United States civilian - sport: boxing (Billy Conn v Joe Louis) (object name) recreation, United States civilian - sport: marathon (object name) administration, Japanese - civilian: election (object name) law and order, German - judicial process: Malmedy massacre trial (object name) industry, German - general: pencils (object name) animals, mammals: horse (object name) buildings, Austrian - institutional: animal hospital (object name) recreation, German civilian - sport: billiards (object name) sciences, United States - astro: solar observatory (object name) Germany & Berlin, Berlin (geography) Germany & Hamburg, Hamburg (geography) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (geography) Germany & Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia (geography) Germany & Mannheim (geography) Germany & Berlin, Berlin <Olympic Stadium> (geography) USA & Massachusetts (geography) Japan (geography) Germany & Dachau (geography) Czechoslovakia & Prague, Bohemia (geography) Austria & Salzburg, Salzburg (geography) USA & Colorado (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: 1397 ft; Running time: 15 mins
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