Tonwoche №501 (1940)

A playful sketch about behavior in public places.

An elderly citizen Ludwig, entering a cafe, approaches his young friend, loudly singing a song.

The latter tries to make Ludwig feel ashamed, but it turns out to be in vain.

Ludwig demands that the waiter fulfill incredible orders, such as freedom, wealth, independence for all members of society, but, in the end, stops at a "wonderful German omelette".

The offended waiter simply walks away from the rude visitor.

Berlin, Olympic Stadium.

A match between the teams of Germany and Hungary is taking place here.

Fragments of the game, the score is a draw - 2:2. There are many military men among the spectators, the Minister of Sports Tschammer-Osten is sitting.

Byrd's expedition to Antarctica.

Individual scenes from the journey.

A view of the polar ice from aboard a research vessel.

On the deck, against the background of icebergs, is the American explorer of the South Pole, Richard Byrd.

Whales are splashing around the ship.

A view of the ship in the area of eternal ice.

An all-terrain vehicle disembarking from a ship.

A view of penguins on ice.

Seal hunting with a net.

A dog sled expedition inland.

A man skiing.

Celebration of the 18th anniversary of the Italian Air Force.

A view of an airfield near Rome.

Personnel lined up in front of the planes.

Mussolini with his retinue walks in front of the pilots, he is by the plane.

Mussolini presents awards to the families of the deceased pilots.

In front of him is a boy in a sailor suit and a woman in mourning.

Mussolini talks and then presents an award to an old woman in mourning.

Mussolini addresses a young woman in mourning holding a child in her arms, stroking the child's cheek.

Close-up of Mussolini.

Air parade, planes flying in a triangle.

The Italian inspection commission visits the Western Front.

Officers enter bunkers, inspect fortifications, inspect the location of the combat unit, look through binoculars at enemy positions.

The invention of cellulose staple fiber is the greatest achievement of German chemists.

Germany occupies a leading position in the world in this matter.

Patent for the invention of fiber.

Workers load packed boxes.

Work in the laboratory to obtain the original substance.

In the machines, various components are mixed to obtain viscose.

Drawing viscose threads, winding threads into bobbins.

The processes of cleaning and drying viscose.

Cellulose staple fabric at the exit.

Workers manually sort the fiber, pack it into blocks.

Berlin.

At Goering's call: "The best gift for the Fuhrer's birthday!" thousands of residents begin to hand over metal household items, as well as antiques, for the military needs of the Reich.

There is a line of residents handing over metal in front of the collection point.

The point opens, people are allowed inside.

A girl hands over a tray with cups.

A woman brings a bronze chandelier.

Various metal figurines on the counter.

The gifts are weighed on scales.

In the frame is a certificate issued by Goering to one of the especially distinguished citizens.

At the collection point: a man brought cast-iron figurines, he is congratulated: all together they give a record weight.

In the new Reich Chancellery, they remove a chandelier, lamps, metal decorations, fireplace grates - everything that can be useful for the military industry.

Carts with scrap metal drive by.

At the pier, barges are prepared for loading scrap metal.

The return home of the German tanker "Altmark".

View of the tanker Altmark, which was attacked by a British cruiser in Norwegian territorial waters in the North Sea and received serious damage.

Close-up of Altmark's captain Dau.

The crew is lined up on the deck.

North Sea.

Patrol boats training.

View of the patrol boats designed to fight aircraft.

An aircraft of the imaginary enemy is visible from the captain's bridge, the signalman transmits a message about it with flags.

Sailors take their places at the anti-aircraft guns on the deck, fire at the aircraft.

Pilot in the cockpit.

View of the boats from the air.

The gunner fires at the boats.

The aircraft lands on water skis.

The return of German aircraft after an air battle over France.

A Messerschmidt fighter, which shot down a French aircraft, lands at the airfield.

The pilots are joyfully greeted on the ground, carried in arms.

Western Front.

An anti-aircraft battery fires at a British plane attempting to cross the border.

Soldiers at an anti-aircraft gun.

Shell explosions appear around the flying plane.

The gun is aimed.

The plane is hit and falls to the ground.

German soldiers and officers are standing in the forest near the smoking remains of the plane.

The commander of the Lion Squadron, Colonel Fuchs, returns to the front after being awarded the Knight's Cross by the Fuhrer; he is at the airfield.

At the plane, the colonel greets the crew and makes a speech in front of the microphone.

Fuchs boards the plane.

German troops in the French town of Paint.

German soldiers from the sapper unit of the railway troops carefully make their way to a building on the territory of a coal mine, which – according to intelligence reports – has been evacuated.

The soldiers carefully comb the territory.

Observer sentries are sent to the tower; a view from the tower of the adjacent area.

Restoring the railway track blown up by the French during their retreat.

The first train is moving along the restored track.

The cars are coupled, and the train continues on its way.

The cars are carrying timber, scrap metal, etc.

Tank exercises on the Western Wall.

Tanks are moving, as seen from the turret of a moving tank.

Tanks are taking obstacles.

Their conventional enemy is artillery, which is firing.

Machine gun fire.

Tank breakthrough, infantry follows the tanks.

Soldiers carry a machine gun.

A camouflaged tank is firing.

The infantry is moving forward in short dashes.

A camouflaged artillery piece is firing.

Under cover of a smoke screen, the infantry attacks and breaks through.

At the enemy positions.

The infantry is overcoming obstacles.

Tanks are moving forward, supported by artillery.