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The factory gate of the Leitz company at two different times: 1953 and around 1915. The openning credits state "A factory gate study by Oskar Barnack. Revised and set to music by Paul Görnert". As in...

Bathing in the Lahn River Men in swimming trunks jump one after the other from a wooden jetty into the Lahn. From the second half on, the shot runs backwards. The film ends with a close-up of Günther...

The Flood of Wetzlar 1920 The Wetzlar Flood Disaster of 1920. The film shows the old Lahn Bridge at high water and a view from the bridge down the river. The street Am Mühlgraben is flooded. In the L...

Arrival of returning German POWs at Wetzlar train station. The soldiers are greeted at the station by a crowd of people. Since the train is arriving from the direction of Cologne, it can be assumed th...

French Prisoners of War II - Belgian Civilian Prisoners of War Since the 1910s, Oskar Barnack, the inventor of the Leica, has captured events around Wetzlar on film with his self-constructed film came...

Carnival in Wetzlar in 1914. At the beginning of the film the council of eleven introduce themselves, you see people with umbrellas, probably after the parade has ended. The guardsmen come out under t...

Views of the Rhineland-Palatinate health resort. Barnack filmed the spa garden and the left bank development with water tower and the legendary hotel Balmoral, where Richard Wagner resided. In the bac...

Rowing Regatta (Imperial Regatta) Documentation of the International Regatta of the Frankfurter Regatta-Verein e.V. on 31 May/1 June 1914 at Deutschherrnkai in Frankfurt am Main. The film shows races ...

Winter sports in Wetzlar at Brühlsbachwarte Winter sports near Wetzlar. Tobogganists and skiers populate the slope. An intertitle reads: "That no-one is born a master is also true for our athletes. A...

Regional Cattle Show in Wetzlar Documentation of the Wetzlar Festival. Floats with the seasons of rural life passing by, footage of the Wetzlar Cathedral Square and Kornmarkt. Other floats: Wittenberg...

Ukrainians in Wetzlar, 1919 Footage of the prisoner of war camp Büblingshausen. The Ukrainian soldiers march up to the consecration of the flag. They are dressed in new uniforms in Ukrainian style an...

Haemodialysis on a Dog Documentation of an early dialysis experiment by Prof. Georg Haas at the Medical Clinic Gießen. Using collodion tubes, Prof. Haas and two colleagues perform a "blood purificati...

With this filmic documentation, Oskar Barnack paid tribute to the Lumière brothers by also recording workers leaving a factory. In Barnack's case they were workers exiting the Leitz factory in Wetzla...

Views of a boat trip in the Spreewald. The camera follows a boat in subjective perspective. Since the 1910s, Oskar Barnack, the inventor of the Leica, has captured events around Wetzlar on film with h...

Since the 1910s, Oskar Barnack, the inventor of the Leica, has captured events around Wetzlar on film with his self-constructed film camera. He documented flood disasters, city festivals, medical expe...

Arrival of the NCO candidates in Wetzlar. The soldiers are expected at Wetzlar station by the gendarme Otto Wallenreich, among others. After the arrival of the train, dignitaries, including the admini...