Moordämmerung (1952)

Hands cutting bread with bread machine, slices of bread. Farmer driving tractor on field. Windmill. Loaves of bread lying in shop window. Map of northern Germany: Emsland is marked. (10:00:00 - 10:01:35) Moorland. Burning heath. Shepherd with moorland sheep. Two children in front of farmhouse. Moor farmers in Moorkate. Farmer's wife with calf. Old man sitting at table. Old woman sitting at open fireplace. Kettle over fireplace (close). Moor cottage (outside). (10:01:25 - 10:02:40) Woman coming out of house. Young bog farmer digging up garden. Young man cutting peat. Man pushing cart with peat over wooden planks, dumping peat load. Young peat digger giving bottle to baby in stroller. Woman with shopping bag walking through peat bog. Store. Grocer weighs sugar and gives it to woman. Men digging drainage ditches. Flooded and frozen meadows and pastures. Rushes (close). Horses pulling carts, sinking up to their bellies in bog. Horse with wooden shoes pulls plow. (10:02:35 - 10:04:30) Feet in wooden shoes climb stairs. Church service in village church. Churchgoers in front of village church. Canal with bridge. Settlement houses on canal bank. Frog sitting on canal bank (close). (10:04:25 - 10:05:20) Excavator digging drainage ditch. Drainage ditch with water. View through canal pipe to drainage ditch. Workers shoveling drainage ditch. Man laying drainage pipes in drainage ditch. Water running from pipe outlet on field. Farmer sowing on field. Machine lifting top layer of soil (white peat as base for garden soil). Workers at machines pressing the white peat into bales. (10:05:15 - 10:06:20) Black peat on conveyor belt is dumped out to dry (outside). Conveyor belts are used to load dried black peat into carts. Black peat is loaded onto power plant stockpiles by crane. Burning and glowing peat in kiln. Generators of power plant. Man checking measuring instruments. High current cable at power plant. Power pole. (10:06:15 - 10:07:05) Woman hugs man with bicycle. Man driving up with tractor. Lunch break. Bog farmer in front of tractor (outside). Muddy ground (close). Road construction in the moor. Engineers survey bog landscape. Excavator digging soil. Men shovel sand into ditch. Trolleys with sand are dumped. Bulldozers push sand into place. Road construction workers attach "sand cases" with stones and hew stones to fit. Diesel roller attaches stones to subgrade. Thin layer of tar is sprayed on paved stones, chippings are thrown over them and roller rolls layers into place. (10:07:00 - 10:09:10) Man throws pieces of peat onto wheelbarrow. Oil rig (pan). Workers drill for oil and natural gas. Drilling rig (from below). Pump jacks during oil production. Oil refinery. (10:09:05 - 10:10:00) Clouds in the sky. Bog landscape. Slow worm (close). Giant plowshares turn over earth. Workers operate machinery. (10:09:55 - 10:11:55) Map of Rüdertwist. Man with pipe explains to others how to work in bog using Marshall Plan. Field. Cornfield. Horse cart driving through cornfield, through settlement. New settlements under construction. Sign on construction site: "Here the Marshall Plan helped". Electric cables lead to wall of houses. Settler couple walking to horse-drawn cart, moving van. New settler house. Family sitting at table eating. Woman cutting bread. Hand cutting bread. Couple walking through burning heath. Giant plow in bog. (10:11:50 - 10:14:05) (text machine-translated)