Tonwoche № 587 (1942)

Newsreel №59822, 1 part, duration: 0:09:20
Production: UFA

Reel №1

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1. Seeing winter in Zurich.

Wooden platform with the ringing of bells burning the symbol of winter – a Scarecrow.

2. Spain.

Spring in the city Once.

Carnival procession through the streets, are women in national costumes.

Parade of peasants.

Allegorical carts, decorated with fruit, flowers.

People throw confetti and serpentine.

3. Through the Bavarian mountain lake cattle transported to summer pastures in the German mountains.

Crossing on ferries.

The shepherds drive the cows on mountain trails.

4. Spring in Paris.

Market square, everywhere sell lilies of the valley.

Boy with a tray of flowers, a flower cart.

Couple buys a bunch.

5. Following the wishes of Marshal Petain to recreate obsolete folk custom in the southern French province of the Limo the wedding was celebrated according to the customs.

From the Church go the bride and groom, they throw the grain with the words: "be Fruitful and multiply!".

Folk dance starts young.

6. In Valencia hosts the annual procession in honor of St.

Joseph.

The wagon carry the statue of the Saint.

Wooden figures representing vices and bad customs man, burned at midnight.

An evening fireworks display.

7. In honor of St.

George the victorious in the Spanish city of Alcoy is held annually folk festival.

There is a procession in traditional costumes.

In the procession takes part of the children's ensemble with drums and bugles.

In memory of fierce fighting between the peasants and the Moors played in the middle ages, around the city a token procession, showing the entry of Moors into the city and then exile their peasants.

8. Mandalay – the strategic center of Burma.

His occupation by Japanese troops.

German road ceases to exist to supply countinho government.

Pictures of the most beautiful temples and pagodas that were damaged by the retreating British troops before the occupation of the city by the Japanese.

9. In the General government, Novopechersky salt crafts in the chapel, located underground at a depth of 100 meters, annually held a Church service in front of Saint Barbara being the patroness of miners.

10. Belgium.

In the great hall of the broadcasting station was arranged a holiday for children of prisoners of war.

A man dressed as St.

Nicholas gives children gifts.

11. Old tradition in the Romanian village.

In Moldova you can watch ritual folk dance called "dance of the horses": the spring dance presented by the boys, mummers horses.

12. Spain.

Traditional festival in honor of the end of the week post.

Carnival night procession with torches - funeral of the sardine.

Carry a huge effigy of the dragon – the personification of the fish, which for weeks was the main dish.

An effigy is burned at the stake.

Locations: Spain [205] Belgium [22] Moldova [145] Poland [177] Myanmar [151] Germany [84] France [77] Switzerland [212]

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