Ernst Leitz Optische Werke Wetzlar
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Genre: Short film / Documentary film
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Année: vor 1930
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Durée: 10:02 min
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Description: Portrait of the Leitz company. After a view of the city of Wetzlar and the Leitz-Werke from the Kalsmunt, the film introduces various departments of the company: the milling shop, the engraving shop, the lens grinding shop, the adjustment department. The film also shows the assembly of a microscope and a Leica. This Leica helps to date the film: It is a Leica 1, whose production was discontinued in 1932 and which was replaced by a camera with interchangeable lenses. Since the 1910s, Oskar Barnack, the inventor of the Leica, had captured events around Wetzlar on film with his self-constructed film camera. He documented flood disasters, city festivals, medical experiments, sporting events and the company where he was employed as chief designer: the Optical Works Ernst Leitz in Wetzlar. His films form the basis of a film archive in which local history has the same place as the effects of great historical events.
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Mots-clés: Arbeit / Work / Industrie / Industry / Produktionsprozess / Production process / Technologischer Fortschritt / Technological development
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Fournisseur: DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum
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Droits: Public Domain
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Société de production: Friedrich Krupp AG
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Director: Alfred Huzel
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Language: de