Overview
- Description
- Welt im Film. Issue no. 48 (part)
Title: Hoover in Berlin. Herbert Hoover's plane arrives in Berlin. The ex-president is leading the American efforts to fight the world hunger crisis. Hoover gets off the plane, greets American army officers, gets into a car, and leaves the tarmac.
01:34:15 Title: Landwirtschaft im Aufbau [Reconstruction: agriculture]. Factory scenes show fertilizer being produced, farm implements being forged, threshing machine being built, among other things. The last scenes show farmers plowing in the fields with horse-drawn equipment.
01:37:05 Title: 10 Millionen Menschen Suchen Sich [10 million people in search of each other]. People enter the building that houses the Central Tracing Bureau (now the International Tracing Service). Dozens of women in nurse uniforms looks through stacks of index cards in a large room. A nurse helps a man fill out a form. The narrator says that offices were opened in Hamburg and Munich to help 10 million people find each other after the war. A postman brings in bags full of mail containing applications from people who are looking for lost loved ones. Brief shot of binders containing the files of children who are seeking their parents. A radio announcer reads the names, birthdates, and other details of these children on the air. The narrator states that 2,000 people find each other every day through the efforts of the service. - Film Title
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Welt im Film no. 48
- Duration
- 00:05:00
- Date
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Event:
1946
Production: 1946 April 17
- Locale
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Munich,
Germany
Hamburg, Germany
Berlin, Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
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Producer:
Welt im Film Newsreel
- Biography
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The Welt im Film [World in Film] newsreel series was produced by the American and British military governments to support the denazification campaign in Germany and Austria. Screening was compulsory in cinemas in the American and British zones of Germany until the late 1940s.
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Newsreels.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:33:11:00 to 01:38:11:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2850 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2850 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2850 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2850 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2850 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2850 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2850 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2850 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the film excerpts from the National Archives and Records Administration in February 2008.
- Note
- Copyright: Technically the Welt Im Film [World in Film] German newsreels are not in the public domain. Rights are generally held by the Imperial War Museum. However, the Welt Im Film issues sold by the National Archives mainly contain Signal Corps footage which is in the public domain or footage of undetermined Allied forces origin to which no one can claim copyright. Researchers interested in duplication should clear rights through the Imperial War Museum if film excerpts or soundtrack have clear British origin.
- Copied From
- 35mm DNC
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 5023
Source Archive Number: 306 WIF 48 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:45:00
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