director: Walter Fredersdorf
year: 1949
country: West Germany
history notes: Unidentified Film No. 056
alternative titles: Fragment eines Kulturfilms über die Entwicklung der Kreativität bei Kindern

This film has been identified thanks to contributions from members of the Lost FIlms community.

Short synopsis: Educational worker describes the importance of 3-dimensional forms for children.

Film without title. - Foreman Pohlenz [frame scan 1] talks with the educational worker. It seems as if the foreman had left a bucket of clay somewhere; now the children are doing handicrafts with it. The educational worker describes [frame scan 2]: Firstly, the children form prototypes. Their fingers become flexible; their eyes skilled. The children are bright and happy. - The children playing in a sand-pit outside. Mechanical toys. A boy disassembles a model car. - 3-dimensional forming is handy for every craft. - A child kneads a devil. - Playing with other material: chestnuts, acorns, hay and matches. At the end foreman Pohlenz is convinced! End-title.

Length: 114m
Format: 35mm, 1.37:1
Picture/Sound: b/w, sound
Notes: 'Kodak Nitrate Film [Star] 13' edgecode printed through

Source notes
Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen

As a “Meister Pohlenz” (Foreman Pohlenz) triggers the explanations, it could be a Kulturfilm (educational film) by DEFA from the early 1950s.

Our contributor, Jeanpaul Goergen, later identified this film as "Ein Eimer Lehm", a short educational film produced in Berlin's British zone in 1949.
Further information can be found on page 93 of the "Katalog der deutschen Kultur- und Dokumentarfilme 1945-1952" (Catalogue of German cultural and documentary films 1945-1952) published 1953 and in the film's entry on filmportal.de online.