Reporter aus Leidenschaft

Film about the professional ethics and everyday work of the newsreel cameraman. Committed to timeliness, he respects state secrets and the privacy of citizens. - Cameramen at work: on the roof of the moving newsreel car, railroad bridge, Horst Grund at a dizzying height during the reconstruction of the Rhine bridge near Cologne-Rodenkirchen (cf. WIB 42 of April 12, 1953), repair work on the Frauenkirche in Munich (cf. WIB 64 of September 16, 1953), Erich Stoll at a press meeting with Konrad Adenauer. The newsreel cameraman reports on the events of the national (17. June 1953 in Berlin, in front of the headquarters of the American forces in Berlin, reporters are pushed away, Erich Onasch is banned from filming in front of the Allied Control Council in Berlin; Use of telephoto lens) and international politics (demonstration of communist students in Japan, political unrest around the world, war in Indochina), natural disasters (floods), of assassinations (of the Sultan of Morocco Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Arafa 1953) and accidents (parachutists in distress, death flight of pilot John Derry at Farnborough 1952, death flight of inventor John Cobb 1953, sinking of the "Flying Enterprise" 1952, death jump of a parachutist, false landing on an aircraft carrier, automatic recording of an airplane being shot down by a remote-controlled rocket, slow-motion recording of the effect of an atomic bomb test), attractions (ball, gala dinner, revue, circus, fairground, jazz band, knife-thrower at the Varité, children's dance school Suse Böhm, dance tournament) and last but not least of sporting events (Emil Zatopek, gliding, high diving in slow motion, ski jumping, Marianne Seltsam's slalom run, bobsleigh racing, soccer, car racing, German jumping derby 1953, horse racing, knockdowns at boxing matches). The sounds are added from the archive of the dubbing department. Close-ups of faces from the audience, shot with a telephoto lens. (machine-translated)