PAN AM AIRLINES WORLD TRAVELER GERMAN EDITION
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Year Published: 1966
Format: 16mm
Description: This 1966 black and white in-flight movie produced by Pan Am Airlines provides a newsmagazine style look at various scenes of interest around Hamburg Germany, including a the Deutsches Derby, naval technology, The Beatles on tour, pop art, The Daimler-Benz Museum, and Kiel Week (TRT 14:54). Pan Am logo and titles over the first Boeing 707-121 jet airliner, "Clipper America" (N707PA) (0:06). In Horn, men in bowler hats smoke cigarettes in closeup. Women wear hats and sunglasses at the 97th Deutsches Derby (0:15). Horses' hooves intercut with women’s legs. Jockeys on horseback. Then-president Karl Heinrich Lübke enters the racetrack in a horse drawn carriage. Photographers and socialite race fans in gaudy outfits. Lübke in closeup (0:28). Crash zoom on the derby’s start. 18 thoroughbreads hit the first turn. Spectators with binoculars (1:07). Slow motion on Ilix in the home stretch. The winner’s circle. Cheering crowds. A derby wreath is presented to Ilix (1:38). A shipyard and ocean liners. The "Sisela Russ" (2:14). Microphotography of a circuit board. A circuit board printer. Punched paper rolls feed through an Olympic machine. Workers at the Industrial Electronics Factory Seligenstadt outside Frankfurt. Transistors, resistors, and diodes installed on bakelite boards. An array rack with patch cables (2:24). AEG’s test lab for shipbuilding in Hamburg. A hand flips a switch, "kommando empfänger." An lab technician and oscilloscope. A circuit is placed in a "weather chamber" for stress testing (3:35). A control console is transported past assembly line workers. Using a multimeter (3:54). The SS St. Michaelis tanker’s assembly in a shipyard. Wiring the bridge. Control units in the machine room. Welding (4:09). The ship leaves Columbus dry dock in Bremerhaven. The captain shifts the throttle (5:02). An IBM selectric typewriter prints figures. The completed machine and engine rooms (5:42). An apartment in Hambug’s Hotel Schloss Tremsbüttel (Tremsbüttel castle (Schloßstraße 10), which briefly housed the Beatles. Empty pajamas and photos of Paul McCartney, George Harrison. Decorative paintings. A tiled bathroom. Photos of Ringo Starr and McCartney at the bottom of a watery sink. Beatles photos appear on a shaving stand while "Nowhere Man" plays (6:07). A girl in mod sunglasses waits at Ahrensburg train station with companions. The back of a raincoat with Beatles fan art (6:49). John Lennon arrives, chased by reporters. George Harrison sports rectangular sunglasses and an alpine hat. Lennon is mobbed by fans as he enters a car (6:54). Paul McCartney climbs a hotel staircase with Ringo in tow. Police on patrol outside (7:11). Beatles on a balcony. Euphoric fans break through a police barricade (7:21). Harrison and Lennon smoke at a press conference. Paul speaks: "If we were tired of it, then we’d stop... We only go on because we enjoy it and we enjoy making records and we enjoy singing things..." (7:35). The Beatles perform "Nowhere Man" and "Paperback Writer" for screaming, crying fans in concert at Ernst-Merck-Halle on June 27th. Banners: "Bravo-Beatles-Blitztournee." Gear: Höfner violin bass, Epiphone hollow-body electric guitars through Vox amps, Ludwig drums (8:06). A worker pastes up a billboard ad. A montage of pop art shows George Segal’s "Gottleibs’ Wishing Well" (1963), John Wesley’s "Dreams of Unicorns" (1965), Roy Lichtenstein’s "Crying Girl" (1963), others (9:03). Art dealer Hans Neuendorf speaks in his Hamburg gallery showing highway paintings by Allan D’ArcAngelo. Live action highway footage is intercut (9:33). Scenes of roads, bridges, autobahn infrastructure (10:42). Inside the Daimler AG / Mercedes-Benz automobile museum in Stuttgart. Innumerable early 20 Century luxury Benzes on display with vintage posters, displays of headlights, wheels, and tires. Visitors. A suspended airplane. A V12 engine. A 1927 sportscar. A 1925 official state car (10:57). 1890s horse-drawn carriages in montage (12:45). Docks of a marina. Women in shorts, men in concentration preparing for the 84th Kiel Week (Kieler Woche) competition. Sailboats are launched. Zoom out on a fleet of competitors (13:17). Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh arrives and climbs aboard his yacht, the "Bloodhound" (13:36). Competition sailboats with spinnaker sails navigate the fjords of the racing course (13:59). End titles (14:33).
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we're in the hamburg suburb of horn for the 97th running of the german derby this traditional test for three-year-olds is at one in the same time the high point of germany's racing season and a ranking social event [Music] guests of honor this year were federal president heinrich luebke and his wife who were given an almost royal welcome the 40 000 spectators on hand saw a picture book start and they're off eighteen thoroughbreds making up this field and they pass the stands in a tight pack craval and the odds on favorite waldmeister lead the field aureon is third coming out of the first turn it's valvemeister still in the lead the pace picks up wildmaster still out in front of the backstretch helix number four with jackie langner aboard pulls up on the outside in the far turn it's still a question mark baldmeister begins dropping back elixir and ariane bye for the lead and it's a battle coming into the home stretch helix pulls out in front and wins the german derby by one and one quarter lengths going away jackie langner wins his first blue ribbon [Music] helix proves a worthwhile descendant for the gamsoft stables his father orsini and tisino his grandfather were both past winners of the prize blue ribbon shipbuilding has also entered the era of automation the advantages less upkeep and greater safety germany's first contactless automatic system is based on a network of electronic semiconductor elements developed by aeg it can be used for all control and adjustment functions in industrial complexes as well as ships the fundamental units of the system printed circuits are produced at the industrial electronics factory in seligenstadt outside of frankfurt they are lightweight and space-saving and are rife with transistors resistors and diodes the circuits are then coated with bakelites which protects them from the effects of dust moisture and extreme temperatures these printed circuits are then joined into units which are capable of maintaining a constant watch on an entire mechanical complex at aeg's test laboratory for shipbuilding in hamburg the circuits are run through simulation tests to check their individual performances as well as their functional capacity when integrated with other units a test in the weather chamber places a circuit under extreme temperatures when the entire unit is assembled it once more undergoes a thorough checkout [Music] then the installation on board begins the saint michaelis is a tanker which was built for the hamburg sewed company at the ag vaser company in bremen the launching is scheduled within a few days [Music] the complicated wiring on the bridge is underway both the measurement and control units have been incorporated into one panel below deck we find the automatic control center in this panel in the machine room a data registrator assimilates information and keeps check on more than 200 facts involving the ship's machinery and the supporting units the final touches are completed in the machine room and the day of the trial voyage has arrived the scene mikhailis leaves columbus dry dock at bremerhaven the ship can be directly controlled from the bridge via the automatic control center [Music] with the same michaelis 75 germany passed the 1 million ton mark in tanker production this ship is destined to shuttle between kuvite and wilhelm's hoffman to keep the german refinery supplied with crude oil this tanker is the first of the german commercial fleet which doesn't require around the clock crews the maintenance crew can leave the ship just like any white collar worker confident that the automatic control center will keep tabs on everything until sunrise experts figure it won't be long now before navigation itself will become automated eliminating still one more utopian idea from yesteryear this apartment in the exclusive suburban hamburg castle hotel in trimsburg is reserved for a 26 year old multi-millionaire who five years ago was poorer than a church mouse his name paul mccartney profession beetle he and his friends and fellow millionaires george john and ringo recently blitzed through germany in three days and hamburg was one stop on their concert tour they began their astounding growth to the world's highest paid beat band right here in hamburg along the famous raper bond back in nineteen sixty these days the four men from liverpool earn about five thousand dollars per day their arrival time and destination in hamburg was supposed to be a secret 5 30 a.m in the suburb of irensburg track two but the fans were there about 700 in all and a total of three policemen to get us through from then on they followed their heroes wherever they went [Applause] [Music] the hotel was surrounded by police for which those of us on the tour were most grateful 1 30 pm the beatles are up and about four hours after the first concert the police in hamburg sent out an alarm the fans have broken through the beatles meantime calmly answer a battery of questions at a press conference in wintertime [Applause] i don't think you know if we were tired of it then we'd stop because there's no need to you know we've started off wanting money like everybody else but when you get money you don't have to go on any longer we only go on because we enjoy it and we enjoy making records and we enjoy singing things that's the only reason [Applause] and the second concert gets underway with guitars amplifiers speakers and the fans all going full blast for them the greatest and for the beatles apparently more fun than anything else they could think of at those prices i couldn't argue [Music] ah [Music] bye fun or serious art that's a question being asked today about a new form in modern art not much older than the fame of the beatles pop art many considerate art in this age of pre-packaging and frozen foods and its subject matter is derived from every area of reality hans neundorf a young german art dealer who believes in pop art explained it on cue this way pop artists paint the every day of today which as you know is overrun with washing machines advertising traffic signs and so forth their nature studies don't portray virgin landscape but rather expressways for example norendorf's hamburg gallery currently has an exhibition by america's alan d'arcangelo on display variations on the theme highways says dark angelo's paintings are in germany for the first time and at first glance they give a somewhat fearful impression cold unpopulated but their geometrical construction doesn't destroy a certain something which we might call the expression of a truck driver's sense of romance for example or call it modern wanderlust [Music] alan d'arc angelo teaches at a new york art academy and he's considered one of pop art's most expressive voices critics have called him a constructor of daydreams [Music] reality looks this way there's little time for romantic thoughts and wanderlust over 15 billion dollars have been spent on improving and extending west german roads since the end of the war some which places the federal republic in second place behind the united states in highway construction expenditures the development of the automobile from a mechanical curiosity into transportation for every man within eight decades can best be seen in a museum maintained by the world's oldest auto manufacturer the daimler-benz factory in stuttgart this model was the favorite of the film stars in the 30s six cylinders 180 horsepower the sports car of 1927 top speed 112 miles an hour in its first 15 years over 1 million visitors have visited the museum 40 of which came from abroad official government car from 1925 here bearing president von hindenburg [Music] 1913 poet gerhard hauptmann an auto fanatic in his day and as cars grew in stature and popularity embellishments followed the automobile's forefathers become recognizable horse-drawn carriages [Music] drivers around the turn of the century felt very masculine indeed they impressed their contemporaries no end air-filled steel rimmed wheel developed from the rubber-covered spoked wooden wheels and these are the oldest cars around 1890 passengers set across from one another as they did in carriages [Music] the first usable cars were constructed in 1885 by carl bentz and gottlieb daimler a reporter wrote at the time the car rolls on without any help from the feet taking all the curves in stride leaving passersby breathless and completely beside themselves [Music] sailing enthusiasts and contestants from 21 countries met on the baltic sea for the 84th keel week competition most prominent guest prince philip queen elizabeth's husband is a sailing enthusiast although he had to forego entering the field in keel his ocean-going yacht the bloodhound was in a class all by itself but he did sail the course for fun and seem to enjoy himself immensely [Music] in competition itself 600 boats left the starting line the rapidly changing winds and the many lulls made the competition difficult but most of the prizes in the four olympic classes were won by swedish and german entries the fjords at keel are one of europe's favorite sailing areas and there's growing talk of holding the sailing competition for the 1972 olympics here [Music] you
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