Overview
- Description
- Welt im Film. Issue no. 69
Training of female police in Berlin. Female recruits in physical training, watched by a laughing group of male policemen. After being issued uniforms, the women perform traffic control duties such as admonishing a young boy for riding his bike in the street and helping a group of children cross the street.
02:13:06 Title: Britische Zone: Gedenkwoche fuer die Opfer des Faschismus [British Zone: Memorial Week for the Victims of Fascism]. Commemoration activities for the victims of fascism (the narrator provides the statistics of 11 million people who died in almost 2,000 concentration camps.). People in Hamburg parade through the town to the cemetery, carrying urns containing the ashes of those opponents of the regime who were executed. At the cemetery a local official speaks to a large, somber crowd, after which members of a local youth group transport the urns to their final resting places in the cemetery. On the same day in another town (inaudible), townspeople attend a ceremony to unveil the first memorial in the British zone. The memorial was created by former political prisoners. People in formal dress come forward to place wreaths at the memorial. The narrator notes that the first week in September will continue to be designated as the memorial week for victims of fascism.
02:14:32 Scenes from the Olympic stadium in Berlin, where an Allied-sponsored sporting event is taking place. Crowds rush into the stadium. American General McNally leads a group of other officers into the stands. An athlete lights the Olympic flame for the first time since 1936. Shots of people in the stands applauding several track and field events. - Film Title
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Welt im Film no. 69
- Duration
- 00:04:52
- Date
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Event:
1946
Production: 1946 September 18
- Locale
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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
- 02:11:57:00 to 02:16:49:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2851 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2851 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2851 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2851 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2851 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2851 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2851 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2851 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- 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: 5027
Source Archive Number: 306 WIF 69 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:45:01
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