Aus Dem Generalgouvernement Filmbericht №20538 (1941)

Newsreel №63010, 2 parts, Duration: 0:09:53 B/W

Annotation:

The issue is dedicated to various aspects of life in occupied Poland during the Second World War.

Reel №1

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Ears of ripe wheat.

Polish peasant sharpens his scythe and begins to mow wheat.

Polish peasants mow wheat with scythes and tie sheaves.

Peasant with a scythe.

Teenager ties sheaves.

Woman stacks sheaves.

View of harvested field.

Loading sheaves onto cart.

Peasant standing on cart stacks sheaves.

Removal of harvested wheat from field, peasants follow cart with sheaves.

Panorama of field, post with barrier on road to Grentse village.

Officer observes through binoculars, border violator in binoculars.

Officer gives order to duty detail to detain violator.

German soldier runs across field.

Violator tries to escape.

Soldier fires warning shot into air.

Detention and search of violator.

Aspirin pack found in detainee’s bag, detainee’s face.

A detainee is taken away under guard.

An announcement of food prices.

The entrance to a store with drinks and baked goods.

A customer enters the store, takes out a food card.

The saleswoman cuts off the counterfoil of the food card.

The saleswoman gives a man bread according to the card.

A man with bread under his arm leaves the store.

The man takes out a cigarette, asks a passerby for a match.

The man lights a cigarette.

A man with bread under his arm walks along an alley, smokes as he goes, stops.

A box of cakes.

Women sitting on a bench feed a dog cakes.

The man stands, thinks, and moves on.

A German military orchestra plays in a city park.

People listen to the music.

Faces of adults and children.

German soldiers and city residents listen to the music.

The conductor directs the orchestra.

A German soldier picks up a little girl.

Faces of children and adults, the orchestra continues to play.

Views of one of the quarries.

Workers crush stone.

Carrying out blasting operations in a quarry.

Workers crush stone with sledgehammers and hammers.

Loading crushed stone and rubble into mine carts.

Mines with stones travel along rails.

Lifting a mine cart with a winch.

The process of crushing stone into rubble.

Piles of rubble on a city street.

Concreting the street surface.

Workers laying a concrete curb.

Workers at a concrete mixer.

One of the workers levels the concrete surface.

View of the street being repaired.

Calendar:

1941

Shooting locations:

Poland

Seasons:

Summer

Reel №2

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Street views of occupied Krakow.

Street flower trade, sellers offer flowers to customers.

View of a flower row on one of the streets.

A man smoking a cigarette.

Tobacco leaf processing processes.

View of a workshop with equipment for grinding tobacco.

Automated line for making cigarettes.

Production processes in the workshops of a tobacco factory.

Automatic packaging of cigarettes into packs.

A man smoking a cigarette.

A director at the console in a recording studio reading the lyrics.

A female choir performs a song in a recording studio accompanied by a piano and harmonica.

Accompanists play harmonicas.

Faces of the choristers performing the song.

A female choir performs a song in a recording studio accompanied by a piano and harmonica.

Calendar:

1941

Shooting locations:

Poland

Seasons:

Summer

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