Tonwoche №479 (1939)

A propaganda sketch about the rules of cycling and the design of bicycles.

An elderly man, Ludwig, and his young friend in a workshop, where Ludwig has brought his bicycle, damaged in an accident.

During the briefing, Ludwig answers questions about traffic rules and finds out that his bicycle did not have a light, which is why it collided with a car.

The election of the President of Slovakia in Pressburg, which is won by Jozef Tiso /10.26.1939/.

Tiso's speech from the rostrum, where he swears allegiance to the fatherland, Adolf Hitler and his people.

Tiso in a carriage, accompanied by cavalry, moves from the parliament building to the palace of Archduke Friedrich.

On the sidewalks, people in national dress greet the new president.

A parade in honor of the president.

Sports competitions of the fascist and national socialist youth of Germany and Italy in the Sarasani Circus in Berlin.

Gymnasts perform exercises on the parallel bars and horizontal bar.

Italian gymnast Imetti performs.

The imperial sports minister Tschammer-Osten is among the spectators.

Olympic champion Stefans is on the pommel horse.

Tarel performs on the parallel bars, then on the horizontal bar, rapid shooting Hitler's youth helps with agriculture.

A detachment of teenagers marches out of the camp, they are in a farmstead.

A peasant greets them, shows them what to do.

A horse is harnessed to a cart, they go to the field.

Teenagers plow on horses.

Collecting books for the German Wehrmacht.

Guys from the Hitler Youth organization go from house to house, collecting books in baskets.

A woman takes books off a bookshelf and gives them to children.

The books are packed and given a special stamp.

A soldier at the front carries books to his comrades, they sort them out and read them.

Books arrive at the hospital.

At the telephone point of one of the air defense units.

The telephone operators receive a message about an air attack.

An alarm is declared in the air defense units, a soldier runs, rings the bell.

Germany.

Continuation.

Airborne alert drill at an airfield of air defense units.

Soldiers are having lunch at the table, and when the alarm sounds, they rush to their places.

Artillerymen rush to their guns.

Pilots scatter to their vehicles.

Airplanes in the sky.

Anti-aircraft guns aiming.

The North Sea.

A view of individual ships of the German Navy that are participating in breaking the blockade of England; they are moving toward the shores of France.

The steamship Deutschland arrives in Sassnitz (Rügen Island), passengers descend the gangway to the shore.

Among the passengers is the famous Swedish singer and actress Zara Leander, who has arrived to film a new movie in which she will play Mary Stuart.

The Winter Aid campaign.

Raising funds for the Wehrmacht in Germany.

Weapons of war are on display in the streets of Berlin, boys from the Hitler Youth are examining a captured Polish cannon and a tank, children are climbing on the tank, and residents are examining the weapons.

Wehrmacht soldiers are collecting donations in circles.

Cycling veterans are performing in front of an audience on exercise machines.

Actors are performing in Berlin's Winter Garden for charity.

Artists are in the audience with moneyboxes in their hands.

Circus performers are performing in the streets of Berlin, and a girl with a parrot on her shoulder is collecting donations.

Composer Herms Niel, the author of many German military marches, is conducting an orchestra performing his new march, "We Are Going Against England." The German navy is sailing to the sounds of this march.

A close-up of the guns on board a ship.

Airplanes are flying over the ships, a view of the squadron from an airplane.