people of east germany. the movies turned common clamors for german unity journalist on board was at the scene. 30 years later he looks back on the time interest in storage december 19th d.w. . christmas is coming and we check out the world's largest christmas tree here on your own lives. and with that a well welcome to the show and let's see what else we have light of for you today. edge against a dragon takes to the streets of the french border of collating and. we

enjoy a traditional christmas meal in london. nobody would argue that costs have changed a lot over the decades but some models remain classics the city's 300 s.l. for example made its mark on can design and also influenced fashion and every day design and that is one of the topics of a special exhibition at the famous victoria and albert museum in london. on the. contrary anything has had a greater impact on today's society than the company affecting everything from industry to individual mobility friends 130 is the exhibition cars in london's victoria and albert museum examines the development of the automobile and its influence on our lives. among other things the focus is on 15 milestones of

automotive history. we want to express here is to show and surprising in different ways that the automobile over the course of its history a relatively short history that is 130 years has had so much profound impact on the world around us exhibits include the fens patent which took to the streets as the 1st car in $886.00 and the ford model t. starting in 1913 and henry ford had it built on the moving assembly line and launched the era of worldwide mass production the exhibition shows the influence of widely varying design disciplines they looked at ford and what had been achieved there with the model t. so you find a lot of designers who thinking about what the future of design might be so you know about house design is in particular what we showcase in the exhibition to start to think about standardize ation as a way of producing more good small quickly and what they were really interested in

was thinking about how basic design could be made cheaper and more available to most peoples in 1922 this hispano suisun model inspired an entirely different trend now one of the most expensive vintage cars it's the i'm $41.00 to have the luxury these cars would be completely the spoke to the to the owner so they would have chosen the colors the upholstery was exactly what type of finish they wanted and not kind of like you know what is this idea of the fashion in car design i'm sorry if we just move over to this section really good see this both the fashion starting with the product side i'm on you know companies begin to monoculture products even when i was driving into a lot of troops in field for example this but the what's really interesting is that car designers started so bored from the fashion world and the way that you have seasonal changes in order to influence that car design. in 1930 phone. this

czechoslovak touch was given one of the very finest streamlined body shapes. and then we see that all the infiltrates into all the cut out design on to all the factions as well so streamlining really becomes this sort of aesthetic of modernity i'm so we can see this house on this flight suit as well which is probably rather profitable but really uses a streamlined started to show got the idea of rushing the streamlining a static spread to fans and even slicing machines as well as the 1st volkswagen after world war 2 the b.w. beetle the 500 and message bubble color gave western europeans mobility helped lay the foundation for tourism. relatively affordable as they could travel but long distances so people could could use them to go away on holidays where people can then drive to places that they wouldn't have been otherwise been able to visit and kind of you know suddenly experience

a whole other world. in the 1960 s. many caught and began to customize their wheels as with this american little ride on. fox the problems caused by congress began mounting congested roads and negative effects on the environment now lorin maazel developers began dreaming of sikkim and taxing what. could be again a scene bold freedom again because you don't. get stuck in traffic we can design a better world. many ways to do that but i think we can draw a lot of lessons from the changes and the impact the car has had on the past 130 years of history both for good and for bad to understand how we might think again in the future about mobility more when i am ability no time in the future is the low emissions and taxi just a dream or a real. prospect the global planes of the aviation and automobile industries are

ready carrying out test flights with prototypes of wind vehicles without tweel. in our backyard like. no christmas celebration and christmas market here in germany would be complete without a decorated tree and fact the tradition comes from germany and so it is no wonder that every year the largest christmas tree in the world is set up in a german city it is made up of small fur trees and this has been the case for more than 20 years a quirky custom and reporter makes merrill want to do his bit to make it a great success this year. gigantic christmas tree and i know exactly how it all came together i'm here in dortmund to examine possibly the biggest christmas tradition in the world in fact

it's the world's biggest christmas tree let's take a look inside so this is the final masterpiece my p.s. the resistance well i mean actually just one of these thousands of trees is actually mine. a few weeks ago i cut down one of the 1700 trees that make up. every year spruce is from the local forest so used there are plenty of norwegian spruces to choose from so i need a bit of advice. why is the norwegian spruce used for dortmund's mega tree in the. fish for one is cheaper than traditional nordman fur and also this tree nestles itself nicely onto the steel framework endorsement on the chicago. into. the spruce is selected for dortmund's christmas tree are between 3 and a half and 5 meters tall for security reasons i can't use a chain saw and have to do it the traditional way the.

job done this tree will have a big role to play. along with the other spruces it's transported to the building site in the early hours of the morning. not exactly a festive spectacle. the 1st load has already been attached to the 45 meter high structure. peach tree is 1st cousin to shape trimmed and equipped with a clamp for attachment some here have been working on this project for 22 years. the what does your tree at home look like. after the 1st 2 years i can barely stand the sight of christmas trees after work. along with the hundreds of trees 1500 working hours and need to complete the structure to get

a glimpse of how it's done i'm joining the workers at the top. no one here seems scared of heights i'm not all too comfortable and the view from up here is a little nerve racking. one load of spruces is pulled up among them my very own contribution. no i think it's a hold on. i went. after a little untangling i managed to get the tree attached. i can proudly say that my tree is part of the world's biggest christmas tree. a small piece indorsements pride and joy the construction company had a total of 4 weeks to build this tree the christmas market surrounding it is only

set up when construction is finished. then visitors have days to marvel at it and buy presents and delicacies from around $300.00 stalls but the real highlight is the lighting of the tree it's what everyone has been waiting for. i. well it was pretty scary being up there but now it just looks so peaceful and beautiful and after weeks of what i was of trees coming together and many more thousands of lights the only thing. really left to say is. tough. and you can find more quirky customs like cheese rolling and tossing the caber

website most people only know the french port city of can lay as somewhere a pos through on their way to britain but now calais office a good reason to take a break there for a few hours to us attraction from the french theatre group alum machine has arrived and of course quite a sensation when it passed through the city streets. huge dragon is rampaging through the streets of calais hissing and breathing fire. and it's here to stay so it's out to get a good look at its new lair and the people who live there. but they need to be on the lookout for this dragons a tricky one. the dragon was great. she saw 1st enough to have one to shout with my son from the dragon and wet from the rain in years but it's all right. very very handsome outstanding momentous.

way done. all the decor in the design absolutely temp job so. the $72.00 ton dragon is 10 meters tall and $25.00 metres long after the show it will be on display in calais starting in mid december it will be making its rounds of the french port every 20 minutes and carrying up to 60 brave souls on its back. it was built by the french theater group. which specializes in creatures like this one. it's a good show it's always full of surprises for the construction was very intense. we had to work hard. the dragons on the move and in the streets even in fairly different. weather conditions to the 100 kilometers per hour or carrying on people are with us it's right with this weather google uses diminishing. the dragon was built of iron and wood a few months earlier in the city of norm in western france the project took some 2

years from the 1st sketches to the finished track and. it was designed by francoise to the founder of the machine some 80 people work together to bring the dragon to life metal workers carpenters artists and programmers. and 1st i made a sketch sculpture used it to complete this wooden model so simply served as the prototype for the dragon of clay. that i had to be rendered digitally. to dragon skin is made up of about $200.00 individually crafted wooden components. in school. blue is a bit more vivid than this one. you. the symbol of the artistic ensemble is a giant elephant it regularly takes a stroll around the machines exhibition grounds and.

elephant and other mobile creatures created over the past 20 years can be seen and experienced their. move or do some every new design is adapted to a given situation yeah i do the history of a town or a certain location. i have the good fortune of the place i'm designing a machine for inspires me. this emotion. that in color it takes a crew of 17 people to execute and synchronize the dragon's movements. in the video is it that you stay in line with what. you. look out no not by. far there it is with the

majority of those the jaws perfect. it is. a pilot sits inside the head in controls the heads movements and the dragon's facial expressions. are 2 more people who control the tongue is the eyes and ears central bank is pierre is responsible for special effects like the water fire and steam there's another for the wings and one of the tail there with you there's one person for talon one who drives the vehicle and one in charge of overall coordination for everybody but don't you call them up with a song. with night falls the dragon really comes into his own. and the next morning some people may not be quite sure if what they saw really happened or if it was all just a dream. hardly any artist could handle the light and shadow as muscle fully

as they are numerous celebrations to mock the 350th anniversary of his death throughout the netherlands the country where he lived and work we visited our neighbors to find out more about this famous. artist rembrandt harmon's own fun writing is a national hero in the netherlands using just a few color pigments made his canvases shine like almost nobody before him. now 350 years after his death his fame lives on. his most famous painting the night watch hangs in amsterdam's rights museum and is now undergoing restoration. a laser scanned the painting and analyze the chemical elements in the layers of paint. does that tell us anything about ground brands

genius. to slow down so both the announcers to paint such a huge picture as to sketch the composition 1st out some of the example at 1st to position the end science flag on the left different it's ideal place to kind of indian cut on the famous to go he goes as ink on. he developed this picture successive grade as he was painting it and it's very exciting to see this development process because you find out how rembrandt thought which decisions he made and that was not a genocide on affairs leyden rembrandt's hometown lies about 40 kilometers south of amsterdam. he was born here in 1606 his parents' house no longer stands. his father's mill as a replica. but the latin school young rembrandt attended still exists. in just around the corner so does the studio where he learned to paint.

a playful video tells the story of his life 17th century students of painting had to learn several genres such as landscape and history painting and portraits. even as a boy rembrandt made portraits of himself he may have been honing his particular talent capturing emotions. gliding was a liberal university town had achieved prosperity through weaving and trading in class many artists lived here. i think he must've been very driven a very driven personality intellectual personality he wanted to become famous so he was very ambitious and. and nothing could stand in his way to become the most famous painter i think it was already in his must have been in his head when he was a small boy. at 25 he moved to amsterdam at the time a flourishing center of trade citizens used their newfound wealth to commission

portraits of themselves. brandt was a huge demand. in this house for nearly 20 years today around 280000 visitors pass through museum annually. this is actually the area where the family lived her family life took place and this is also an area of success of happiness but also of great sorrow for example we have the box bed here. family would sleep and this is also the area where remnants 1st died. so this is rembrandt studio this is actually the place where many of his masterpieces were in may and here we see a lovely corner where we can see how he worked with light and here he has a cloth hanging and this cloth softens a light so it filters sunlight coming in. rembrandt's genius extended to

printmaking as well he generally made his etchings himself using the method demonstrated to visitors of the rembrandt house museum. good money could be made from a print series in those days even so for the end of his life rembrandt was destitute you lived in a grand style and he also did not always pay his debts so hard in part this collection was a part of his bankruptcy and had to be sold during his lifetime. his house and possessions were also sold off he moved to a poor neighborhood and continued painting. he lived for art as is shown by the masterpieces in. amsterdam's rights museum that fascinate generations of visitors. christmas unites people all over the world but each country has its own traditions

and of course this also applies to the food that served during the festive season in our new serious cold traditional christmas fair we take a look at what is cooking around the continent and find out how the dishes prepared at today's episode takes us to foodies paradise in london. in britain christmas just wouldn't be christmas without a turkey and christmas pudding. the roast restaurant is located at nandan spiral market this goal made by new gets into the festive mood in late november and techies featured on the menu. for ship on the chef right from london bar moffitt style we're going to be going to my pickle christmas stocking and the temple christmas pudding. bishop

concentrates on the turkey breast. a big part of why we talk is a very very vile very big audibles on the difference between cooking the breast and the like the leg tends to press tends to go dry out for the legs cuts so we remove the legs we miss them that we're going to put them in so i'd. hit. them with we rolled it on the rugs to. bacon plays an important role when preparing roast turkey . if i could look at about the turkey and the bike and it's a little bit of that little bit of moisture. that fact at the time you know that circle brighteyes a golf. with a bit of what it's dry out we want to keep. us from west the roast this tightly wrapped and put to one side for a while before going into the open for 2 alex it's

a lot of work for a christmas morning. with suggesting that we do this the day before it is a christmas i cook it just chill it out and we both christmas i smile for hayseeds we take them out. ideally a couple of dedicated to help us could pitch in the day before to peel the potatoes split the possums and prepare the brussels sprouts. alone with all the vegetables comes a little something else that's me central parts of a british christmas dinner in my house we have the pigs in blankets we will cook 2 kilo's of figs and by fits and we'll eat them throughout i'm not there to get cold . the christmas menu that is served up at company parties a neat things with friends in december is made up of more than one course. but is it christmas pudding is a must these are the ingredients. flour

so it. should go eggs and then you put in whatever fruit you kind of want and then out of traditionally just plain brandy in the eligible randy so stout and. pitcher him and it switches up sherry. many families make their christmas pudding weeks in advance to allow it plenty of time to mature. if you give us the spicy if you good luck and fortune so each person in the family would. keep one started spinning clockwise christmas pudding steamed and then with brandy . but it's not yet time for these that the various side dishes for the main course have to be ready at the same time with turkey. to make sure it's ready the best why is jesus a woman talk

a little bit of moment should read 72 degrees celcius. now the trick is to gather all of the guests around the table. to take a joy of toughing after christmas i want to write. a traditional brick. christmas. something that's not to be mean. yami and if you want to cook a roast turkey you can find the recipe on facebook and you can see the report again on our website where you can also find the details on how to enter until we meet again from all of us here and thanks for watching and see you again soon.

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