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).
