The First Day of School

16mm Film - The First Day of School - BRD 1959

Camera and Direction: Walter Koch

Script: Walter Koch and Georg Gick

Music: Marc Roland and his Electronium Orchestra

Narrator: Klaus Havenstein

The documentary describes the first day of school on September 3, 1959, at the Volksschule on Ittlinger Straße in Munich, using three children as examples. The friendly teacher and puppeteer is the school principal and dialect poet Georg Gick.

Sources

  1. YouTube channel: The Art of Film on 16mm · video ↗ — title, description, video
  2. 16mm Filmography editors — title, year, country, description