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...
March of French soldiers into the camp. The soldiers who got off the train are escorted to the camp by the gendarmerie and the Landsturm. One can see the gendarme Wallenreich. Since the 1910s, Oskar B...
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...
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...
The footage shows the parade of the riflemen's festival in Wetzlar in 1914, with participants of the '27th Verbandsschiessen Wetzlar' among others. The procession consists of festively decorated cars ...
Documentation of the celebration of the laying of the foundation stone for a "Taunus recreation home" in Oberjosbach, Hesse, on May 21, 1914, showing the celebrating crowd consisting of festively dres...
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...
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...
Oskar Barnack