Tonwoche №426 (1938)

Newsreel №63915, 2 parts, Duration: 0:12:52 B/W
Studio UFA

Reel №1

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British troops in Palestine.

Armored vehicles moving along a road in a mountainous area.

Jews on the streets of the city, close-ups of characters.

Residents with children sitting on the street near their houses.

An Arab with a camel on the street, close-up of a chewing camel.

A sign pointing to Bethlehem.

British armored vehicles on the road, planes flying over them.

Troops in the city.

Soldiers at a firing point on the veranda of a house with a machine gun.

A soldier looks through the loophole of the fortress wall, a view of the city.

British soldiers walking through the city, they are on a street blocked by barbed wire, a soldier at the fence.

Light signals being sent from the roofs of houses.

Soldiers walking along the street past a high stone wall, a fighter fans himself with a flat aloe leaf.

Soldiers jogging through the streets of the city.

Traces of bullets and shells hitting houses: broken glass, doors.

Captured Arabs, tied up one by one with a rope.

Muslim soldiers handing out bread to residents from a truck, women in burqas and children in the queue.

English cars driving in the desert.

View of the city and the mosque tower.

Artillery firing, clouds of smoke in the air, fires, explosions of houses.

England.

People standing in line at the stadium.

Billboards about a football match of the top national league.

Spectators at the stadium, King George VI arriving at the match, he goes around the teams, shaking hands.

Moments of the game.

Opening of navigation on the Rhine-Oder rivers.

Map of Germany, the Rhine, Weiser, Elbe, Oder rivers, which are planned to be connected by canals.

Construction of a canal from Duisburg through Essen, Dortmund, Minden on the Weiser, then through Hanover, Salzgitter, Braunschweig, Magdeburg - on the Elbe to Berlin.

Canal diagram on the map.

People's construction of the Volkswagen automobile plant in Grunwald.

Construction commissioning, workers and welders are at work.

The plant's chimneys are smoking.

Rudolf Hess arrives for the opening of the canal in Magdeburg.

He drives through the city in an open car, the people greet the guest.

Hess walks around the line of soldiers.

There is a speaker on the podium.

He gives the floor to Hess.

After the speech, Hess goes to a boat, which enters the lock to move to another water level.

Crowds of people on the shore greet Hess, a line of rowers with oars in their hands stands separately.

The lock opens, a ship goes along the canal.

A view of the port and many ships.

Keywords

Palestine, 1938, troops, occupation, Jews, Arabs, destruction, artillery, England, 1938, sport, football, monarchs, personalities, Germany, 1938, fleet, civil, construction, channels, Germany, 1938, construction, car factory, Germany, 1938, channels, opening, Hess, gateways, civil fleet

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Soldiers of the Francoist army in the mountains near the Ebro, a firing point with a machine gun on the top.

Soldiers in the attack.

A victory flag on the top.

A colossal fire destroyed an entire block of Marseille.

Firefighters put out the fire with fire hoses.

Prime Minister Daladier inspects the ruins.

A panorama of the ruins of buildings, the charred walls of the cathedral and houses are falling.

People are clearing away the rubble.

A German unit is resting.

A soldier is darning a sock, another is cleaning a boot.

The soldiers are polishing their weapons and singing to the accompaniment of an accordion.

The commander comes in, reads out the order, everyone is happy and continues singing.

Mobilization in Germany.

Recruits are marching down the street with suitcases in their hands.

Recruits are riding a decorated tram, suitcases are lying on the roof.

German Book Week is taking place in Weimar.

The house of the poets Schiller and Goethe, a monument by the wall.

A ceremonial meeting in the hall.

Goebbels' speech on German literature.

Listeners in the hall, individuals.

Keywords

Spain, 1938, civil war, soldiers, France, 1938, Czechoslovakia, 1938, soldiers, rest, Germany, 1938, mobilization, recruits, Germany, 1938, literature, Goebbels, monuments

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