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- SummaryThis black and white documentary film reports about the cycling world championships, which took place for the first time in the GDR in 1960. Full of pride at the end of the documentary film the following is announced: "...a triumph for the cycling of the GDR at this excellently organized "Championnats du Monde"...most titles and places of the world championship for the cycling of the GDR...a victory of peace and friendship between nations".
- Shotlist0:00:00 Progress Film Vertrieb is showing a VEB DEFA Studio film for newsreels and documentaries "Campionnats du Monde" cross-fade "Cycling World Championships 1960". Rod data: Camera Helmut Gerstmann, Gustav Voigt, Siegfried Kaletka and others. Editing Dorit Gatzka. Music arrangement by Kurt Zander. Sound by Karl Heinz Schmischke and Hans Jürgen Mittag. Head of photography Gerhard Radam and Günter Schück. Design Hein Sobiczewski. dimming 0:00:30 Schwenk (from above) over Karl-Marx-Stadt (half total). Circumcision with swivel over the newly designed cycling track (half-total). Construction workers smooth the steep walls in the curves (semi-near). Women help to clean up the spectator stands (half total). Cut to the Sachsenring near Hohenstein-Ernstthal (half total). Carpenters assemble new rows of seats (half total). New building at the finish (half total). Bricklayers work on the ceiling cladding (semi-near). Circumcision with swing over the "Alfred-Rosch-Kampfbahn" in Leipzig (half total). View of the tilers at the access stairs (half total). Swing from the tilers to the construction works in the battlefield (half total). recut 0:01:15 Swing over the Eiffel Tower in Paris (half total). French cyclists train on the roads (half total). Comment: "But not only the host country, the GDR, the best in the world prepared themselves for the world title fights of the cyclists. In the south of their country, the French cyclists trained...". Cut back to the city of Moscow (half total). Viktor Kapitonov training on the streets (half near). Cut back to the city of Rome (half total). Italy's head coach with his team in Padoa (half total). Swing over the racing cyclists to the trainer (half near). View of the cyclist Livio Trapè (half near). dimming 0:02:05 Aerial photographs of the Alpine passes during the "Tour de France" (half total). Racing cyclist on her laborious ascent over the Alps (half total). Comment: "The Tour de France rolled over the Alpine passes, for the professional drivers it was the last one on the Sachsenring exam". Intermediate cuts of the Tour de France (half total). Entrance to the stadium with the Frenchman Jean Graczyk (half total). Overall winner Gastone Nencini from Italy (half near). Cut to a brochure "Isle of Man" (near). Crossfade with pan from the Irish Sea to the island (half total). Flag of the GDR (near). Amateur cyclist at the start (half total). Racing driver Bernhard Eckstein from the GDR and Täve Schur (half near). Cycle photo with a view of the racing cyclists (half total). Finish by the winner Bernhard Eckstein (half total). Eckstein walks towards the camera (half near). dimming 0:03:20 Sign above the hotel entrance "We greet the participants of the World Cycling Championships" (half total). Swing from the sign to the entrance area of the press centre in Leipzig (half total). Information signs for the press in the hotel (near the hotel). In the office of the head of the press centre Horst Schubert (half near). Schubert calls and organizes his employees (half near). View into the writing rooms of the journalists and the women at the teleprinters (half near). Message in telex "Leipzig airfield, Lebanon crew just arrived as 34th country" (near). Crossfade to the entrance of a passenger train in Leipzig station (half total). Signs at the trains "Frankfurt (Main) - Bebra-Wartha-Erfurt-Leipzig- Berliner Stadtbahn" and "Sassnitz-Express, München-Augsburg-Nürnberg-Saalfeld-Leipzig-Malmö C" (near). Wagons bearing the inscriptions 'CSD Prazská Dráha' and 'Budapest-Szob-Praha-Dresden-Leipzig' (near). Sign "Basel SBB-Heidelberg-Frankfurt (M)-Bebra-Erfurt-Leipzig" (near). View to the filled platforms in the station of Leipzig (half total). Passengers leave the station area via the large entrance hall (half total). View (from above) of the passengers on the station forecourt (half total). Trams arrive in front of the station (half total). Schwenk (from above) via the traffic junction at the railway station to the city of Leipzig (half total). Redecision to the building of the newly built opera house (half total). Fountain on Karl-Marx-Platz (half total). Panning over the information wall inside the city "World Cycling Championships 1960" and international flags (half total). View of the decorated "Konsum-Warenhaus" (half total). Cars and license plates from all over the world inside the city (semi-close). Press vehicles with imprints of newspaper names (half total). 0:05:30 Swing to the new town hall (half total). Participants of the 114th Congress of the Union Cycliste Internationale enter the New Town Hall (half total). View into the filled conference hall (half total). Faces and country signs (semi-near). Circumcision. On behalf of the Council of Ministers, Prof. Dr. Alfred Lemnitz presents the President of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Adriano Rodoni with the Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (half near). Applause from the delegates of the UCI (half total). Comment: "The GDR, the first socialist country to host the World Cycling Championships, gave welcome greetings to the delegates and the highest body of international cycling". Adriano Rodini thanks for the tribute (half-total) (original sound with German translation). Rodoni at the lectern (half near) (original sound). Applause among the delegates (half total). Dimming. 0:06:35 Aerial view over the "Alfred-Rosch-Kampfbahn" of Leipzig (half total). Through the tunnel, the participating athletes enter the battlefield (half total). Athletes with country signs pass the grandstands (half total). Panning over the interior of the arena with the competitors from 34 nations (half total). The welcome by UCI President Rodoni (half near) (original) "This moment is of world historical importance and proves that sport knows no borders and can bridge all obstacles in the sign of friendship between nations". At the opening of the World Championships, thousands of pigeons rise in the fighting arena (half total). Spectators look into the sky and look at the pigeons (half total). Redecision to a circling motor sports aircraft above the battle arena (half total). Cameraman follows the competitions (half total). Redesigned for the start of two women from the Soviet Union at the Sprinter Railway World Championship (half near). Camera follows the slow initial speed of the athletes (half total). Galina Jermolajewa increases the tempo (half total). Slow motion shots from the target curve (half total). Finish of the winner Galina Jermolajewa (half total). Winner with cup and ribbon on the podium (half near). Circumcision. Start for the 2nd and decisive final run of the amateur pilots (half total). Slowly the two drivers from Italy and Belgium feel each other (half total). Cameraman follows the sudden and firm start of the Italian against the Belgian Leo Sterckx (half total). Slow motion recording from the target curve (half total). The Italian Sante Gaiardoni wins in a new record time of 11.2 seconds (semi-close). Winner of a lap of honour (half total). recut 0:09:10 Start in the sprint of professional drivers (half total). The Swiss Oscar Plattner and the Italian Antonio Maspes are slowly taking to the track (half total). Spectators watch the athletes interested (semi-close). Tactical "standing" on the track makes the tension greater (half-total). Cameraman pans over the event (half-close). Final sprint 350 meters before the finish (half total). The Italian Antonio Maspes is catching up and is taking the 3rd World Champion title (half total). View of the applauding spectators (half total). Circumcision. View (from above) of the persecution of women (half total). The Englishwoman Beryl Burton and the Belgian Marie-Thérèse Naessens are followed with the camera (half total). Beryl Burton wins by 6 seconds (half total). Burton at a lap of honour with flowers and winner's ribbon (half near). recut 0:11:00 Antonio Maspes with a film camera in his hand during an interview in the stadium (half near) (original sound) "The organisation is unique, I have taken part in many World Championships but have never experienced such a perfectly organised field here in Leipzig. How the riders of all nations are celebrated by the spectators here and the enthusiasm impressed me very much. The Leipzig Railway is good and should be one of the best in the world". View into the press area in Leipzig (half total). Comment: "The more than 400 accredited journalists from home and abroad were also extremely satisfied with the impeccable organisation and the working conditions created for them". View of the telephone booths and telexes in the press area (half total). English journalist gives his article to the editorial staff in London by telephone (nah) (original sound). Editing of an Italian and a French journalist in the telephone booth (nah) (original sound). Other journalists from Belgium, Hungary and Poland in the telephone booths (near) (original sound). recut 0:12:15 Start around the 3rd and 4th place in the 4,000 meter pursuit drivers of the amateurs in the evening hours (half near). GDR driver Siegfried Köhler meets FRG driver Hans Mangold (half total). Swing (from above) over the two drivers on the illuminated track (half total). Countercuts of Mangold and Köhler (half total). The winner Hans Köhler is 3rd in the overall standings and is congratulated by his trainer on the track (half total). Köhler with flowers next to Marcel Delattre and Henk Nijdam on the pedestal (half near). Circumcision. View (from above) of the decision in the 5,000 meter pursuit of the professional drivers in the evening hours (half total). Willi Trepp from Switzerland and Rudi Altig from Mannheim on the track (half total). Winner Rudi Altig on the podium with flowers and bow (half near). Dimming. 0:13:30 Comment: "The days of Leipzig were coming to an end". Secretary General of the UCI is asked for his opinion in the stadium (half near) (original sound) "I am very satisfied, organisation and performance are excellent. When winners and losers reach out to each other as sincere friends after the races, sport has made many of them friends for life in the days of Leipzig". Cut to the organizers and judges at the Kampfbahn Leipzig (half near). Comment: "The last decision on the last day in Leipzig was reserved for amateur drivers. In the final 9 riders, including 3 from the "GDR". The motorcycles of the standing riders prepare themselves for the start (half near). View of the bank of radio reporters (half total). Trainers push their cyclists at the start (half total). The cyclists hang on to their respective pacemakers on their motorcycles (half total). Camera follows Georg Stoltze from the GDR behind his pacemaker Fritz Erdenberger (half total). Various sectional views from the one-hour race (half total). The GDR driver Siegfried Wustrow attacks Stoltze (half total). View of the television cameraman on his podium (half total). Finish judge finishes the race with one shot (half total). Finish of the winner Stoltze (half total). Comment: "This shot meant the end of the race and the victory of Stoltzes, who won the 1st cycling world championship title of the year for the GDR". The winners on the podium (half total). Stoltze at a lap of honour on the track (half total). recut 0:15:15 Schwenk über die Elbe auf Meißen mit Burgberg, Dom und Albrechtsburg (Halbtotal) Commentary: "Between the race days, visitors from Germany and abroad took the opportunity to get to know the beauties of the GDR and the peaceful work of its people. View of the man-filled inner courtyard of the porcelain manufactory of Meissen with bell tower (half total). Circumcision. Swing from a painter to the crown gate of the Dresden Zwinger (half total). International guests get off a coach in front of the kennel (half near). Visitors in the courtyard of the Zwinger (half total). Dimming. 0:16:00 Aerial view of the filled stadium in the sports forum of Karl-Marx-Stadt (half total). Aerial view of the car park next to the stadium (half total). Cut over to the rolling vehicles from many European countries on the parking lot (half total). Panning over the inflowing spectators at the stadium (half total). Comment: "Long before the start, more than 30,000 spectators filled the steep ranks of the world's most modern and fastest standing race track, the professional endurance riders determined their world champion here". Circumcision. Start of the standing race in the evening hours (half total). Coaches push their cyclists on the track (half total). The respective pacemakers sit down with thundering engines in front of their racing cyclists (half total). Swing over the fast Spanish team on the track (half total). Camera follows the fights between the teams from lap to lap (half total). Guillermo Timoner from Spain with his pacemaker August Meulemann fights his way forward (half total). Panning over a sound engineer with cameraman on a podium (half near). Comment: "Then something unexpected happened, a puncture caused the leading pacemaker to fall, his machine caught fire... (film fade-in)...the Belgian resembled a blazing torch, and now the organisation and... (film fade-in of the extinguishing work)...and the safety measures introduced for all cases proved themselves". Swing over the race during the fire fighting (half total). Panel display with the times after 90 kilometers (semi-close). View of the microphones of foreign radio and television reporters (semi-close). The chequered flag will be shown to Spanish winner Guillermo Timoner (half total). Timoner on the podium (half near). dimming 0:18:15 Swing over the limousines in front with racing cyclists (half total). Swing on the decorated archway with inscription "Weltmeisterschaftsdorf 1960" (half total). View (from above with pan) of the athletes' accommodations in the village Oelsnitz in the Vogtland (half total). Comment: "There has never been anything like this in cycling before. Athletes of all nations, amateurs and professional drivers, felt "at home" here. Information signs on the grounds of the World Championships Village (half near). Athletes in tracksuits walk through the terrain (semi-close). Waiters dressed in white in front of a farm building (semi-near). View into the large kitchen of the village (half total). Chef cuts up chicken (semi-near). Swing over the filled dining room with the athletes (half total). Table of the English team (half near). Swing over the French table (half near). View into a treatment room for injured athletes (semi-near). Faces of doctors and patients (semi-near). English sprinter during the examination after a fall (semi-close). Cut to the hands of Bernhard Eckstein (nah). Eckstein maintains and repairs his racing bike (semi-close). Mechanic Winkler working on the racing bicycles of the GDR team (half near). dimming 0:19:45 Aerial view over the Sachsenring near Hohenstein-Ernstthal (half total). Aerial photograph over the fully occupied Sachsenring (half total). View (from above) of a group of cyclists on the ring (half total). Swing from the town sign "Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Bez. Karl-Marx-Stadt" to the cyclists (half total). The Frenchman Jean Graczyk and his compatriot Marcel Rohrbach on the ascent (half way). The professional drivers follow the leaders at a greater distance (half total). View of the spectators at the roadsides (half total). View (from the frog's perspective) of the racing cyclists passing by (half total). Television camera and cameraman are pulled up on a platform with a crane (half total). View (from above) of the race drivers passing the grandstands at start and finish (half total). Comment: "...the last reserves have been mobilized. A few kilometres before the finish no one could afford to allow any driver to push forward...the leading group stormed through the last lap...". View from the TV cameraman to the cyclists (half total). View (from below) of a TV cameraman on a scaffold (half total). Drive shot with a view of the spectators on the Sachsenring (half total). View of the last meters of the leaders before the finish (half total). Spectators enthusiastically applaud the Belgian winner Rik Van Loy (half total). Swing over the winner (half near). TV cameraman pushes his camera on rollers across the street (half near). View of the winners Rik Van Loy, André Darrigade and Pino Cerami on the podium (half near). dimming 0:21:25 Swing over the grandstand and the open umbrellas of the spectators (half total). Comment: "Rain storms and cold winds already blew over the Sachsenring the day before...(Swing over the waiting cyclists at the start)...nevertheless more than 150.000 spectators...(view of the fully occupied grandstands)...athletes and visitors from all over the world got an impression of the enthusiasm that not only the participants at the start of the road world championship of the amateurs dominated". View of the start of the race (half total). View (from above) of the passing cyclists (half total). Aerial view of the amateur race (half total). View of the racing cyclists climbing the Badberg (half total). Comment: "The fight for the rainbow jersey didn't allow any breaks, almost over the whole distance the fast pace was maintained. With full force the full field stormed on". Intermediate cuts from the course of the race (half total). Zoom (from above) on the cyclists in a curve of the Sachsenring (half total). Swing over enthusiastic cycling fans (semi-close). Slow motion pictures of the cyclists climbing the Badberg (half total). The drivers race past the grandstands (half total). Comment: "While Täve was driving in the field Eckstein was always in front of the picture...(fade in)...the fast hunt continued undiminished". TV cameraman under a rain cover (half near). Swing from the GDR and UCI symbol over the grandstands to the racing cyclists passing by (half total). A top group of 8 men separates from the rest of the field (half total). Bernhard Eckstein in the top group (half total). Circumcision. Defending champion Täve Schur leads the rest of the field (half total). Spectators cheer on the GDR riders (half near). 0:24:15 The Belgian Willy Vanden Berghen drives lonely in front of the field (half total). Panning from writing newspaper reporters to racing cyclists (half total). Swing (from the upper rows of stands) over the passing amateurs (half total). Willy Vanden Berghen already leads with 28 seconds before the last lap (half total). Reporter is on the phone with his transmitter (half near). Coaches stop at the roadside the times of their protégés (half near). GDR trainer looks at his watch (half near). Nervousness spreads among spectators and coaches (semi-close). Comment: "And then came the thrilling news, Täve Schur and Bernhard Eckstein are off...(fade in of the two as a driving shot)...with unbelievable speed they were chasing the Belgian...the distance became shorter and shorter". Drive photo with view to Täve and Eckstein (half near). Fast intermediate cuts of the two GDR drivers (semi-near). Swing over Willy Vanden Berghen and the opening Täve and Eckstein (half total). Spectators drive the GDR drivers (half total). Drive photo of the change of leadership from Berghen to Eckstein (semi-near). View of cheering spectators at the roadside (half total). Swing (from above) to the finish of Bernhard Eckstein (half total). Swing over Täve Schur which becomes 2. with a final spurt (half total). Täve and Eckstein congratulate and embrace each other (semi-close). Cheering spectators (half near). View of the three winners on the podium with flowers and ribbons (semi-close). Comment: "An almost incomprehensible triumph for cycling in the GDR...double victory of our riders in road driving, most titles and places in the world championships for cycling in the GDR. This result was the crowning achievement of the excellently organised "Championnats du Monde". A victory of peace and friendship among peoples". Swing (from above) over the passage of the winners in an open car on the Sachsenring (half total). Spectators crowd to the roadside to applaud their heroes (half total). Swing over the winners in the open car (half total). View of the flags of the winners (semi-near). dimming 0:27:00 END
- TagsCycling; German Democratic Republic (GDR); World Championships; Karl-Marx-Stadt; Sachsenring; Hohenstein-Ernstthal; Leipzig; Stadium; Fighting Track; Paris; Moscow; Rome; Padoa; Tour de France; Alps; Isle of Man; Amateur Driver; Professional Driver; Press Centre; Exhibition City; Journalists; Reporters; Cameraman; Television; Travel; Airfield; Railway Station; Tourism; Opera House; Consumption; Congress; Union Cycliste Internationale; UCI; Order of Merit; Friendship between nations; Soviet Union (SU); Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR); France; Italy; Lebanon; Belgium; Sprinter; Steher; England; Hungary; Poland; Persecution; Federal Republic of Germany (FRG); West Germany; Switzerland; Permanent driving; Pacemaker; Elbe; Meissen; Dresden; Zwinger; Misfortune; World Championship village; Oelsnitz; Vogtland; Saxony; Badberg; Rainbow jersey; Slow motion;
- Decade1960
- Production Year1960
- Release date3 Mar 1961
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- DirectorHeinz Sobiczewski
- Producer
- CameraHelmut Gerstmann, Gustav Voigt, Siegfried Kaletka
- Original Clip IdentifierQ6UJ9A002OKP