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Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website A black-and-white in-flight film produced by Pan Am Airlines, “Pan Am World Traveler: German Edition” (1965), provides a newsmagazine style look at various scenes of interest around the Federal German Republic including Queen Elizabeth II’s state visit to West Germany, the artistic process behind cartographer Hermann Bollmann’s maps, the state of the art campus at a local high school, and hydroplane races on the Moselle River. Pan AM DC-8-30 (0:13). Queen Elizabeth II greeted by officials Federal German Republic (0:29). Aerial view Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip motorcade, wave at crowd of West Berliners (0:40). Welcome reception along Breitscheidplatz, Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in background (0:46). Motorcade passes Brandenburg Gate (0:53). Queen greets crowd gathered at John F. Kennedy Square from Rathaus Schöneberg City Hall (1:17). Queen speech from balcony of Rathaus Schöneberg; left: Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt with German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard; right: the chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Erich Ollenhauer, with Prince Philip (1:36). Crowd in front of Rathaus Schöneberg City Hall (1:43). Commercial and cruise ships in Port of Hamburg, St. Michaelis Church in background (1:50). Men wave from upper deck IJA BOSTON MARU (2:04). German Navy escort Royals onto HMY Britannia yacht (2:11). British Navy men wear Royal Navy Sun Helmets (2:30). Yacht illuminated by light sails down Elba River, the Royals wave from upper deck (2:56). Yacht and harbor illuminated by light (3:07). Columbia University Low Library (3:19). West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard wears blue robes while receiving honorary degree from Columbia University (3:22). News cameras and journalists trail as Lyndon B. Johnson and Erhard walk White House Lawn (3:48). Hermann Bollmann with New York Map, sketches another piece (4:08). Interior Bollmann Map Workshop: employees sit in office use special machinery (4:22). Bollmann gets into aircraft 1954 Cessna 170B, sets up aircraft camera (4:30). Second camera fixed on top VW Buggy car, car drives around busy streets (4:44). Aerial view of Braunschweig seen from Bollmann aircraft intercut with references from Bollmann’s first map of Braunschweig 1947: Kohlmarkt Braunschweig (Cabbage Market), St. Katharinen Church, former monastery of St. Egidien (5:10). Employees compare reference photos with aerial footage to draw map, magnify images (6:09). Employee sets up map in reproduction device, project map onto film (6:42). Other employees use advanced machinery as part of Bollmann workshop (6:56). Decrepit 200-year old barn house in Lüneburg (7:29). New exterior of barn house: half-timbered building converted into rehab center for horses (7:34). Horses unloaded from trailer (7:43). Horses, pony, and donkey in barn stables (7:50). Representative of Humane Society speaks to mic, stands next to white horse (8:08). Rooftops, castle ruins Königstein im Taunus, Taunus Mountains (8:37). Campus modern Bauhaus-style highschool (8:53). Beakers and various lab equipment in chemistry class (9:11). Students peer through microscopes (9:20). Microphotograph exoskeleton insect (9:31). Upperclassman stand around modern kitchen, eat in modern-style cafeteria (9:46). Young boys work on DIY computer made of discarded parts (10:12). Upperclassmen boys and girls in metal shop, hunched over creations (10:32). Young boys and girls craft artistic marionettes (10:43). Girl practices moving marionette in Baroque-style mirror, makes marionette play fiddle (10:55). Young students watch show at puppet theater built into classroom (11:07). Young students paint creatures based on puppet performance (11:18). Teen boys run around gymnasium outfitted with bars and pads, gymnastics training -- boys tumble, do backflips across gym (11:32). Girls gym class: young girls dance in circle during rhythmic gymnastics class (12:03). Conductor leads school band through song, flute section, drums, standing bass - accompaniment for girls gymnastics class (12:10). Aerial view banks of Traben-Trarbach along Moselle River, small motorboats race down river bank (12:25). Water skier in air during competition, holds onto paraglide (12:30). Close-up of racing engines (12:37). Buzz of hydroplane boats as 17 drivers make their way around course, white water sprays (12:54). Winner 1965 World Champion Austrian Peter Frisch pushed into river’s water (13:40). This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
