Images that moved the world
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Pictures that moved the world Subtitle: Peter von Zahn reports |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 1979/1980 to 1983 |
| length | approx. 25 minutes |
| Episodes | 34 in 3 seasons |
| genre | documentation |
| Moderation | Peter von Zahn |
| First broadcast | February 13, 1980 on ZDF |
Pictures that moved the world - Peter von Zahn reports was a television series with documentaries and the first on German television to deal with accidents and catastrophes from 1933 to 1979. The first broadcast series ran in 3 seasons with a total of 34 episodes in 1980 and 1983 on ZDF .
Place of the first broadcast series
The broadcast slot was generally Wednesday in the evening before. The respective episodes, each around 25 minutes long, ran from 6:20 p.m. or from 6:25 p.m. to around 6:50 p.m., followed by an advertising block and then today's broadcast. The series began on February 13, 1980 with the first broadcast of episode 1 and ended on September 21, 1983 with the first broadcast of episode 34.
Direction and moderation
The journalist and editor Peter von Zahn (1913-2001) directed and moderated all programs with his remarkable voice and peculiar emphasis, but was almost never seen in the films.
content
The content was the cinematic representation of significant natural and technical disasters as well as accidents . The broadcasts mostly dealt with just one event. This has been portrayed dramatically, but not exaggerated. The event was explained with atrocities of human fate, for example drowning or burning people (etc.).
The films consisted exclusively of original recordings. There were no graphics or maps. Interviews were rare. However, only what was documented was documented. Zahn understood pictures to be only moving pictures. Disasters before the invention of the film did not fit into the scheme of his broadcast. In the end credits each sounded eerie music.
Seasons and themes
1st season
Episode 1 to 10 (number of episodes: 10) - all first broadcast in 1980
| No. | First send. | Original title and subject, if applicable | Disaster site (s) | Unlucky date | dead |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 02/13/1980 | Red Adair : Oil on Flames | • Gassi- Touil gas field; Sahara ( DZ ) • Platform B; Marchand Bay , Gulf of Mexico , Louisiana Coast ( USA ) • Sumatra ( RI ) |
• 1962 • 1970 • 1978 |
•? •? •? |
| 2 | 02/20/1980 | Storm surge in Hamburg - storm surge 1962 | Hamburg and the North Sea coast ( D ) | February 16-17, 1962 | 318 |
| 3 | 02/27/1980 | Flight 823 - New York – Miami - plane crash | New York LaGuardia Airport ( USA ) | 02/01/1957 | 20th |
| 4th | 05.03.1980 | Andrea Doria - Ship sinking | Passenger ships Andrea Doria and Stockholm ; off the coast of Nantucket (near USA ) |
July 25, 1956 | 46 |
| 5 | 03/12/1980 | Earthquake - Long Beach Earthquake 1933 | Long Beach ( USA ) | 03/10/1933 | 120 |
| 6th | March 19, 1980 | Dam burst - dam burst |
Baldwin Hills Storage ; Baldwin Hills , Los Angeles ( USA ) |
December 14, 1963 | 5 |
| 7th | 03/26/1980 | Airship Hindenburg - fire and crash |
LZ 129 - Hindenburg airship ; Lakehurst ( USA ) |
05/06/1937 | 36 |
| 8th | 04/02/1980 | Ashes over Costa Rica - Volcanic Eruption Series | Irazú Volcano ( CR ) | March 13, 1963– February 13, 1965 | > 35 |
| 9 | 04/09/1980 | Texas City Explosion - Fire and Explosion Disaster | Texas City ( USA ) | 04/16/1947 | 581 |
| 10 | 04/16/1980 | On the trail of death - Niki Lauda's accident | Nordschleife of the Nürburgring ( D ) | 08/01/1976 | 0 |
2nd season
Episode 11 to 21 (number of episodes: 11) - all first broadcast in 1980
| No. | First send. | Original title and subject, if applicable | Disaster site (s) | Unlucky date | dead |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 09/10/1980 | Trapped on the ocean floor | USS Squalus ; Portsmouth ( USA ) | 05/23/1939 | 26th |
| 12 | 09/17/1980 | tornado | Wichita Falls ( USA ) | 04/03/1964 | 7th |
| 13 | 09/24/1980 |
Gaps in Bridges • Collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge • Collapse of the South Bridge |
• SR 16 ; Tacoma Narrows ( Puget Sound ), between Tacoma and Gig Harbor ( USA ) • B 327 ; Koblenz ( D ) |
• 07.11.1940 • 10.11.1971 |
• 0 • 13 |
| 14th | 10/01/1980 | Luxury steamer Morro Castle - ship fire | Passenger ship Morro Castle ; Atlantic Ocean , near Long Beach Island ( USA ) |
09/08/1934 | 137 |
| 15th | 10/08/1980 | Buried for 13 days - mining disaster |
Oneida mine # 2; between Oneida and Sheppton ( USA ) |
08/13/1963 | 1 |
| 16 | October 15, 1980 | Hurricane Camille | Gulf of Mexico coast ( USA ) | August 17-18, 1969 | 259 |
| 17th | 10/22/1980 | Flood in Ohio, USA - flood | Ohio River ( USA ) | January – February 1937 | 385 |
| 18th | October 29, 1980 | SOS over the ocean - Pan-Am flight 6 | a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser ; Pacific , about halfway between Hawaii and San Francisco |
10/16/1956 | 0 |
| 19th | 05/11/1980 | Bel Air in flames - major fire | Bel Air ( USA ) | 11/06/1961 | 0 |
| 20th | 11/12/1980 | A city tears apart - Good Friday quake 1964 | Anchorage ( USA ) | 03/27/1964 | 139 |
| 21st | November 19, 1980 | Captain Carlsen - marine casualty | General cargo ship Flying Enterprise ; English Channel , Atlantic (between Great Britain and France) |
December 24, 1951– January 10, 1952 | 0 |
3rd season
Episode 22 to 34 (number of episodes: 13) - all first broadcast in 1983
| No. | First send. | Original title and subject, if applicable | Disaster site (s) | Unlucky date | dead |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22nd | 06/22/1983 | Storm surge in Holland - flood disaster of 1953 | Netherlands , Belgium , Great Britain , North Sea , English Channel | 31.01.- 01.02.1953 |
2,394 |
| 23 | 06/29/1983 | Death in Agadir - Agadir earthquake in 1960 | Agadir ( MA ) | 02/29/1960 | ≈ 15,000 |
| 24 | 07/06/1983 | Oil spill on the canal - oil tanker accident | Amoco Cadiz oil tanker ; English Channel , Atlantic ; Portsall , Brittany ( F ) |
March 16, 1978 | 0 |
| 25th | 07/13/1983 | High-rise building in flames - fire disaster | Joelma skyscraper , São Paulo ( BR ) | 02/01/1974 | 179 |
| 26th | 07/20/1983 | Hurricane Agnes (here: only affects Pennsylvania) | Pennsylvania ( USA ) | 06/22/1972 | 50 |
| 27 | 07/27/1983 | Potassium cyanide for the believers - Jonestown massacre | Jonestown ( GUY ) | 11/18/1978 | 913 |
| 28 | 08/03/1983 | The white poison of Seveso - Seveso luck | Icmesa factory ; Meda , Seveso ( I ) | 07/10/1976 | 0 |
| 29 | 08/10/1983 |
One city flies away F5 tornado during the Super Outbreak |
Xenia , Ohio ( USA ) | 04/03/1974 | 34 |
| 30th | 08/17/1983 | Angel in the mud - flood in Florence | Arno , Florence ( I ) | 04/11/1966 | 34 |
| 31 | 08/24/1983 | Firestorm Over Boston - Big Chelsea Fire | Chelsea ( USA ) | 10/14/1973 | 0 |
| 32 | 08/31/1983 |
Burning forests Fire in the Lüneburg Heath |
Lüneburg Heath ( D ) | 08-18 August 1975 | 6th |
| 33 | 09/14/1983 | Fréjus dam breach - dam wall breach | Malpasset dam ; near Fréjus ( F ) | 12/02/1959 | ≈ 421 |
| 34 | 09/21/1983 | Etna, forge of the gods - volcanic eruption | Etna , Sicily ( I ) | 09/12/1979 | 9 |
Abbreviations, remarks and individual references
Unless otherwise stated, the number of deaths listed in the three tables is usually based on the (linked) articles on the German Wikipedia.
- ↑ Pictures that moved the world - broadcast dates (including dates of the first series broadcast), on fernsehserien.de
- ↑ Program from… August 31, 1983 (first broadcast date: 3rd season - episode 32 - Burning Forests ); see ZDF section, 6:25 p.m., on tvprogramme.net
- ↑ a b c First send. = First shipment
- ↑ a b c Pictures that moved the world : overview of seasons, episodes, topics, first broadcasts , on fernsehserien.de
- ↑ Storm surge in Hamburg (1962): 340 people died in the storm surge in 1962, 318 of them in Hamburg
- ↑ Flight 823 - New York – Miami (1957): Number of dead (20) according to article Northeast Airlines Flight 823 in the English language Wikipedia
- ^ Airship Hindenburg - Fire and Crash (1937): 36 people died, including 1 member of the landing team.
- ↑ Tornado (1964): Number of dead (7) according to section 1964 tornado of the article Wichita Falls, Texas in the English language Wikipedia
- ↑ Gaps in bridges - collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940): 1 dog died in a car left on the bridge
- ^ Flood in Ohio, USA (1937): Number of deaths (385) according to the article Ohio River flood of 1937 in the English language Wikipedia
- ↑ SOS over the ocean (1956): Number of dead (0) according to the article Pan Am Flight 6 in the English language Wikipedia
- ↑ Bel Air in Flames (1961): number of dead (0) according to section 1961 Brentwood-Bel Air fire of the article Brentwood, Los Angeles in the English language Wikipedia; until October 20th, 2013 (05:36 am) it said "no one was killed"
- ^ A city tears apart (1964): number of dead (139) according to article 1964 Alaska earthquake in the English language Wikipedia
- ^ Charles Hocking: Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam: Including Sailing Ships and Ships of War Lost in Action, 1824-1962 . Lloyd's Register of Shipping, London 1990, ISBN 0-948130-68-7 , pp. 246 .
- ↑ Storm surge in Holland (1953) - the flood disaster of 1953, which also took place outside the Holland region , resulted in 2,394 deaths, 1,835 in the Netherlands, 307 in Great Britain, 28 in Belgium and 224 in the English Channel and the North Sea
- ↑ Oil spill on the Canal (1978): while there were no human victims, many animals living in and around the sea died
- ↑ Hochhaus in Flammen (1974): the number of deaths is sometimes given as 179 to 227
- ↑ Hurricane Agnes (1972): 128 people died, 50 of them in Pennsylvania.
- ^ Cyanide for the believers (1978): Number of dead according to the article Jonestown in the English language Wikipedia: 909 + 4 = 913 people ( 909 Temple members … four other Temple members )
- ↑ A city flies away - F5 tornado ... (1974): Number of deaths (319), of which according to the Xenia, Ohio section of the Super Outbreak article in Wikipedia, 32 + 2 = 34 in Xenia
- ↑ Burning woods (1975): 6 firefighters died in the Lüneburg Heath, one of them from heart failure and 5 from fire
- ↑ Dam breach by Fréjus (1959): Around 421 people died as a result of the dam wall burst , but the number of deaths is occasionally given as 361, 400, 423, 429 or 510.
- ↑ Etna, Forge of the Gods (1979): During the series of eruptions in late summer / autumn 1979 (with the formation of the southeast crater) died on September 12th. nine people; the number of deaths was changed from initially 5 to 6 to 9.
Web links
- Images that moved the world in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures that moved the world : overview of seasons, episodes, topics, first broadcasts , on fernsehserien.de