Monday 22 November 2021

Die Deutsche Wochenschau (UFA-Tonwoche) - Newsreel No. 488 - 10 January 1940


 

1. Tran and Helle propaganda sketch.

 

2. Hong Kong.

 

British troops are out of Hong Kong.

 

Steamship „Tak Sang“ in the port Tientsin (Tianjin).

 

The British soldiers come out of the railway cars, walk along the waterfront, climb aboard the ship.

 

At the station is transporting cargo by the Chinese coolies, they carry boxes.

 

On a pile of crates with the inscription „Hong Kong“ is sleeping Chinese.

 

3. Winter in Europe.

 

Italy, the snow-covered streets of Rome.

 

Arch of Triumph, the Colosseum.

 

Snow-covered square in front of the cathedral with a fountain in the center.

 

People on the square playing snowballs.

 

4. Germany.

 

In Berlin, city residents are out on the streets to remove snow with shovels.

 

The boy sweeps the snow with a mop.

 

Adults and children enjoy sledding from the slides.

 

In Garmisch-Partenkirchen are German conscript ski competitions.

 

Jumping from a springboard decorated with Olympic symbols.

 

The winner of the competition - Tony Eisgruber, in second place - Hammerschmidt from Innsbruck.

 

View of the ski jump and the panorama of the surrounding area.

 

Berlin, Ransdorf Lake.

 

Races on the ice of the lake.

 

The champion Ernst Holz on the ice buer.

 

Ice rink in Berlin.

 

Figure skating among children at the rink.

 

Mass skating girls, they are watching the audience.

 

Children are trying to do different elements of figure skating: swallow, spinning, etc.

 

5. Vienna.

 

Female workers are bringing children to kindergarten.

 

Children are playing in the room.

 

One of the girls has a birthday, the guys congratulate her, kissing, she treats friends with cookies.

 

Dinner, the children at the tables.

 

Tyrolean village.

 

In the village organized repair service for clothes.

 

Girls collect from homes in need of repair clothes, put them in baskets.

 

Girls with baskets go down the street, enter the house.

 

Girls mending clothes.

 

A boy sits at the spinner, trying to spin yarn.

 

6. Germany.

 

Wilhelmplatz in the city of Posen.

 

View of the formation of young German soldiers who are brought to the oath.

 

Production processes in the factories of the German military industry.

 

Worker turns the machine stock of rifles.

 

Turning the barrels of rifles.

 

Workers gather rifles.

 

Rifle shells on the conveyor.

 

View of the shells and their casings of different calibers.

 

Blacksmith shop, working press.

 

Goes forging shells.

 

Works lathe, cutter close-up.

 

The worker at the machine.

 

A welder is working.

 

The workers are pulling the red-hot barrel of the gun from the furnace, forging it.

 

Workers are collecting a gun.

 

A panorama of a workshop, assembly of guns.

 

7. Germany.

 

The troops on maneuvers.

 

The road - riding cavalry and artillery.

 

Planes in the sky.

 

At the signal of the air-raid, the soldiers disperse, hiding in a ditch.

 

Machine with anti-aircraft guns mounted on it.

 

Cavalrymen are crossing the creek.

 

The soldiers set up the gun, firing at tanks.

 

Part of the infantry go on the offensive.

 

Explosions in the woods.

 

The soldiers are leaving the trenches and go on the attack, advancing in short bursts under the explosions.

 

Firing flamethrowers.

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