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Training of female police in Berlin; ceremonies for the victims of fascism; athletic event at the Olympic stadium in Berlin

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2008.40.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4669 | Film ID: 2851

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    Training of female police in Berlin; ceremonies for the victims of fascism; athletic event at the Olympic stadium in Berlin

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    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
    Welt im Film no. 69
    Duration
    00:04:52
    Date
    Event:  1946
    Production:  1946 September 18
    Locale
    Hamburg, Germany
    Berlin, Germany
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
    Contributor
    Producer: Welt im Film Newsreel
    Biography
    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

    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.

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    Administrative Notes

    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
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:45:01
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