Wilhelm Marzahn

The film shows a series of locations and the way of life in the Black Forest. It leads from Baden-Baden with its 20 hot springs through the Murg Valley southwards, past the Daimler factory and the friendly Gernbach stream, along the scenic Black Forest High Road, past the Allerheiligen monastery at the foot of Kniebis-Freudenstadt, Württemberg's highest town - Thermalbad Rippoldsau - through the Schappach Valley with its high pastures and isolated farmsteads down to the Kinzig, the border between the northern and central Black Forest.

The film shows how the German economy is supplied with sea fish: Hamburg-Altona fishing port. Wesermünde-Geestmünde fishing port. Preparations for departure. Departing fishing trawlers. Hauling in and processing the catch. Unloading the cargo in the fish market. Inspection, weighing, and sorting of the fish. Auction, packaging, and processing. Overview of important sea fish from German catches. Transport in special wagons to the German interior.

Documentary film about the 1933 Christmas party of the Reichsbahndirektion Berlin in the Sportpalast.

A film about the landscape of northern Germany and its people. Between the Geest and the marshes, the 200-kilometer-long Marschbahn railway takes viewers through Holstein, across the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal and the Eider River to North Frisia. From Dagebüll, take the mudflat steamer via Amrum, Hallig Hooge, and Föhr to Sylt. Lonely farms and quiet Frisian villages, the Hindenburg Dam, and the sparkling sea greet visitors.

Two packers discuss a damaged transport crate, and a young woman arrives to claim it for her father. The supervisor explains the defect and suggests the new container transport system. The father and daughter receive a brochure and watch a promotional film at the Reichsbahn office cinema. The film showcases the efficiency of container transport, featuring various goods like apple juice, strawberries, glassware, and furniture being packed and transported using Reichsbahn containers. The film highlights safety features and the ease of moving large items, concluding with the slogan “From house to house.”

The film highlights the connection between the Reichsbahn and forestry, showcasing lumberjacks, foresters, and wood transport using horse-drawn carts and forest railways. It features wood processing in sawmills, modern plywood production, and various wood uses like furniture, paper, and railroad ties. The Reichsbahn’s role in transporting wood is emphasized, along with its consumption in carriage factories and coal mines. Wood is also used in highway construction, house building, and a wooden radio tower, symbolizing German culture and spirit.

A trip to Norderney by sea and land. From Bremerhaven, the steamboat journey passes the Rotesand lighthouse and Heligoland. The land route begins with the train in Bremen, continues via Oldenburg, and connects in Norddeich to the mudflat steamer, which maintains the connection to the East Frisian Islands even at low tide.

A man and a woman in a convertible on their way from Giessen to Heidelberg. Numerous traffic obstacles are illustrated: unsuitable town thoroughfares, many curves, confusing railroad crossings, a school, flocks of sheep, a detour, a hay cart, a breakdown. An innkeeper tells the two about the new Reichsautobahn. Traffic moves quickly on the Reichsautobahn.

This film shows the halls of the Borsig locomotive factory in Berlin with the noise of the machines and riveting hammers. Iron and steel plates, bundles of pipes of all diameters are formed. Huge locomotive boilers, lifted by cranes, move through the hall. They connect with the huge steel wheels, glittering steel parts are inserted into the engine of the locomotive being built. Finally, the giant is on the rails, the class 05 express locomotive of the Deutsche Reichsbahn.

The highest peak in the Thuringian Forest, the Inselsberg, is surrounded by peaceful health resorts and industrious rural towns: Friedrichsroda, Tabarz, Schmalkalden, Bad Liebenstein, Bad Salzungen, Ruhla, and Eisenach, the town of Wartburg Castle. We observe knife and scissors smiths and other craftsmen at work in their workshops. Tabarz: Health resorts and industrious rural towns.