Winter sports in Wetzlar at Brühlsbachwarte Winter sports near Wetzlar. Tobogganists and skiers populate the slope. An intertitle reads: "That no-one is born a master is also true for our athletes. A...
Documentation of the city of Wetzlar in Hesse at the end of the war in November 1918, including Braunfelser Straße and Silhöfertorstraße. Buildings are decorated with wreaths and garlands of fir br...
Men in swimming trunks jump one after the other from a wooden jetty into the Lahn. In the first half of the film, the footage runs backwards. The film ends with a close-up of Günther Leitz (1914-1969...
Rowing Regatta (Imperial Regatta) Documentation of the International Regatta of the Frankfurter Regatta-Verein e.V. on 31 May/1 June 1914 at Deutschherrnkai in Frankfurt am Main. The film shows races ...
Unidentified footage of the Leitz factory in Wetzlar. On view are workers at partly filigree manual production processes. Since the 1910s, Oskar Barnack, the inventor of the Leica, had captured events...
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 film shows the the factory halls, presumably of the Ford plants in Cologne, and the work processes of the workers at the machines. Transport vehicles are loaded. Workers read notices with informat...
Oskar Barnack