Construction of aircraft, during World War I, at the German factory, Albatros Werke GmbH, located on Johannisthal airfield near Berlin. Wood is unloaded for use. Machinery for a woodworking room. Stacks of wooden planks. Men work on the machinery. Ribs are cut for wings. Men operate machinery. They cut the ribs and stringers. Men work on wooden structures. Women at work on parts of aircraft. Wing assemblies are wired and covered. Assembling of the complete cell. Fuselage sections are assembled and sanded in the assembly department. Tail and wing sections are attached to the fuselage. A large number of aircraft in process in the plant. Finished aircraft seen in a shed include an Albatros C.1 reconnaissance airplane and several early models of Albatros C.III, with small vertical stabilizers. The C.III tail was made larger in the version later produced at Ostdeutsche Albatros Werke, in Schneidemühl, Pommern,Prussia (Present day Poland).
A pole and a house in a German town during World War II. Nazi iron Swastika mounted on brick pillar in midst of rubble. Iron eagle on top of Swastika. Close view of Nazi iron Swastika and iron eagle. Rubble all around and battle-damaged trees in background.
Men spread a large piece of cloth which shows dark figure of an aircraft painted on cloth. Aircraft parked in the background on field. Aircraft in flight with the cloth hanging beneath which looks like two planes in flight. Cloth is detached from plane while aircraft flies. Piece of cloth falls down.
Film opens showing German astronomer, Erwin Finlay-Freundlich, who designed the solar telescope housed in the Einstein Tower observatory. He poses in a white laboratory coat (without his glasses) and then steps away to put them on and climb steps leading the way to the tower. The unusual building sits in a park-like setting on the Potsdam Telegraph Hill and contains Finlay-Freundlich's solar telescope for observations related to the theory of relativity. (Although he did not work at this facility, Einstein endorsed its construction and mission. In his honor, it is named the Einstein tower, aka Einsteinturm.) The remainder of the film shows various views of the observatory.
Scenes in the city of Coblenz on the banks of the Rhine River during a major flood of the Rhine. Water flooded streets of Koblenz. People walk on raised walkways on water. Civilians sail in boat and use ropes to move ahead instead of oars. Civilians get on raised walkways.
Hugo Eckener and other officials step down stairs from LZ-127. They are surrounded by uniformed Army officers and personnel. A technicial in lab coat carries a large microphone to set up. Later, Hugo Eckener climbs back stairs where he talks to persons gathered about and gestures.
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