Tonwoche №539 (1941)

Czechoslovakia.

Portrait of Mozart, his score.

Laying the foundation stone of the Mozart monument in Prague on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the composer's death.

Laying a capsule in the foundation of the monument.

Czech Philharmonic, Rafael Kubelík conducting the orchestra.

Celebrations in Vienna.

Flags of different countries hang near St.

Stephen's Cathedral.

Chalice with fire and monogram with the letter M, laying of wreaths.

Spectators in the hall of the Vienna Philharmonic, where a concert of the symphony orchestra is taking place.

Bust of Mozart.

Poland.

Winter landscape.

City by the river, fortress.

Panorama of the city of Bauska.

German tanks are standing in the snow.

Occupied Poland, horse-drawn sleighs are standing in the square, cabbies are waiting for passengers.

Men unload sacks.

Vocational school, teenagers in a carpentry workshop.

They make shovels from wood.

Processing wood for skis.

Latvia.

Civilians donate skis and boots for the army.

A small boy with boots approaches the reception desk, a soldier shakes his hand.

In Copenhagen, due to the onset of cold weather, swans are transferred from a lake to another body of water.

Men catch swans with a landing net and carry them in their arms.

Fishing in the Protectorate of Moravia.

Fishermen pull a net through shallow water, pull the fish to the shore, and put them in baskets.

Close-up of a large catfish.

An inventor takes his motorcycle-based car out of the garage, gets in, demonstrates various devices, and drives along the road.

USA. Girls running with piglets in their hands.

The girls put piglets in barrels, then roll them down a hill along marked paths, climb over a fence with them, and across a stream.

The winner with a piglet in her hands.

A variety show at the Scala Theatre in Berlin.

Girls in shiny bathing suits with epaulettes and swords in their hands are dancing.

Riga, an announcement about recruiting volunteers born in 1920-22 for the period from January 10 to January 31, 1942. Volunteers for construction brigades enter the reception center.

Officers address them with a speech.

Enrollment in brigades.

Recruits go to the barracks, a meeting in the hall.

A brigade with shovels in their hands marches to the construction site along the shore.

Construction of a house.

Mines with earth move along the track, a young man plays the piano next to the track.

RAD fighters clearing forests, doing field work.

A brigade rides bicycles through the forest.

Volunteers playing sports: they run on the sand, play with balls.

Volunteers near the barracks, relaxing after work.

A young man plays the harmonica.

A squad with shovels marches out of the camp.

Soldiers drill, performance at the stadium.

RAD soldier on duty.

The Berlin sports hall Deutschlandhalle, where the Luftwaffe sports festival is taking place.

Mass gymnastics exercises of soldiers of the airborne troops.

Performances by athletes.

Soldiers, standing in two rows, do jogs with somersaults.

Parachutists do somersaults on a mat, jumping from a tower.

Jumps onto a tarpaulin held by comrades below at the tower.

A gymnast performs on a horizontal bar.

The founding congress of the International Union of Journalists of Pro-Fascist Countries took place in Vienna.

The meeting hall, Otto Dietrich speaks.

Demonstration in Rome after the signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact.

Mussolini drives through the crowd in a car along the street, goes out onto the balcony of the Palazzo Vecchio.

A banner with the faces of Churchill, Stalin and Eden and the words: "These three are wanted" is visible.

The English Channel.

A German pilot captain gets into a plane, a fighter takes off.

Observation flight of a German squadron over the English Channel.

Air combat with enemy aircraft.

Traces of tracer bullets.

A German submarine in the Atlantic.

Storm, the alarm sounds.

The sailors descend from the deck, the submarine descends.

Engine room.

An officer looks through the periscope, an enemy ship is visible in the eyepiece.

The submarine torpedoes the ship, it sinks.

The alarm is cleared, the submarine continues on its way.

Officers at the map.

The alarm sounds, the sailors leave their food and run to their places.

Observers notice a convoy.

Torpedoes are fired at ships.

The stricken ship is burning, it is sinking.

The submarine rises to the surface, the crew is on deck.