Tonwoche №479-1 (1939)

Slovakia.

Pressburg.

Honouring Jozef Tiso, who becomes President of Slovakia as a result of the elections on 26 October 1939. He arrives at the building in a car and inspects the guard of honour.

Tiso is in the hall, being greeted by delegates.

Tiso travels through the streets of the city in a carriage, while residents in national dress greet the president on the sidewalks.

A parade in his honour.

Tiso in the hall with members of the government.

The Sino-Japanese War.

The advance of Japanese troops in the Hankou region of Canton.

Soldiers run across the water after tanks, a landing party is on the shore.

Soldiers ford a river, fighting on the opposite bank.

Japanese planes bomb Chinese positions.

Artillery fires.

Abyssinia.

Religious festival in Addis Ababa.

Native troops stand on the field.

Emperor Haile Selassie and his retinue watch the ceremony.

People walk around a structure made of poles in the form of a cone, warriors run, throw long spears.

Germany.

Production processes at a glassblowing factory.

Molten glass is placed in a mold.

Glassblowers at work.

Cutting finished vases.

Artistic glass products.

USA. Cross-country auto racing on cars of various designs, including the earliest ones.

Accidents on the highway.

USA. Female gymnasts training in a gym.

The gymnasts demonstrate various exercises to develop mobility, ending with walking on their buttocks.

Holland.

Queen Wilhelmina visits a stadium where anti-aircraft equipment is being demonstrated.

The Queen goes around a row of officials, then she is shown the equipment and protective suits.

Helmets are lying on the ground.

The Queen goes around a line of firefighters in gas masks.

Wilhelmina goes to the stands, the spectators clap.

German soldiers are restoring the railway bridge across the Vistula.

Königsberg railway station, train schedule.

Launch of the first train to Berlin from Königsberg via Birschau and Schneidemühl, names on the carriage.

The train travels across the bridge, the builders welcome it.

A wunschconcert (a concert by request) is organized for front-line soldiers, the concert is conducted from the hall of the radio station by Heinz Gedike.

A military orchestra plays.

Gedike reads letters from the front.

The reading is accompanied by footage filmed in a maternity hospital: close-ups of newborns, baby carriages.

A hall with spectators, many soldiers among them.

A jazz band performs hits from the film "Hello!

Yanina".

Soldiers and sailors at the front listen to the concert.

German soldiers set up loudspeakers on the Western Wall, pointing them at the French side, music plays, the soldiers clap.

France.

Grape harvesting in the area of the Western Wall.

German soldiers guard local farmers, help gather the harvest.

Japanese General Terauchi on the Western Front.

Fortification zone of the Western Front.

General Terauchi inspects the structures of the Western Wall surrounded by German officers.

He looks through a stereoscopic telescope, enters a bunker, talks with officers.

German soldiers march into a bunker.

A German airfield on the Western Front, planes are preparing to take off.

A dog on the airfield.

Artillerymen set up guns, light searchlights.

Soldiers in the trenches.

French soldiers in captivity, a German treats them to cigarettes.

The prisoners are taken to the rear in trucks.

The position of the artillery battery in front of the Western Wall, the guns are preparing for battle.

The shelling of the French positions is underway.