Quirky / comic item 8th World Congress of Nudists in West Germany.
VS of photographic exhibition held in Hanover showing life in a nudist camp. CU people looking at photographs on display.
MS barbed wire fence around nudist camp. The Wochenschau reporter is prevented at the gate from entering the nudist camp because he has clothes on (the three people on the gate are naked). MS Wochenschau cameraman, naked with his camera on a tripod (black bar across screen hides his modesty).
VS opening ceremony performed by Social Minister Partsch of the 8th World Congress of Nudists, he plants a tree to commemorate the opening. Everyone taking part and watching ceremony are fully dressed.
LS in nudist camp showing nudists playing volley ball. CU the Wochenschau reporter peeping through bushes. MS four naked bottoms running down beach towards sea. Back view of naked bodies. MS Wochenschau reporter tripping over and falls in bushes.
VS nudists from all over the world sit at long tables and converse, flags from various nations are on desk. CU Wochenschau reporter's clothes being thrown into a heap. CU of his bare feet as he enters the water. MS Wochenschau reporter chest deep in water.
VS nudists being interviewed (some shots have bits blacked out to preserve the interviewees modesty). CU the Wochenschau reporter in the water, he comes across a woman in the water, she gets out and is wearing a bikini, the reporter is embarrassed and just lets himself sink under the surface of the water.
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