The Panorama Color Monthly Newsreel (Panorama-Farbmonatsschau) was a German propaganda newsreel produced during WWII.

Color film was already invented in the mid 1930s and was commercially avaliable, although color cameras and film were extremly expensive.
Nevertheless, during WWII, more and more German propaganda footage was shot in color, and by 1944, the Propaganda Ministry wanted to create a newsreel completly in color.

The Panorama Color Newsreel was only produced in four episodes, from November 1944 to January/February 1945.
The newsreel was more focused on cultural events, civlian footage, footage from workplaces etc. and contained few military footage/footage from frontlines.

This video shows issue No. 3 from January 1945. It shows footage from from wine harvest at the Rhine, cattle being moved in Bavaria from the hills to the valley for winter, including decorations being put on them.

Also shows German troops leaving Finland and reaching Norway, where they meet with local Lapps people, footage of German AA-positions in Norway,
footage of German reconnaissance seaplanes starting for mission andAA-guns fighting off a Soviet air raid.

Another section shows the history of the Red Cross and the work of Red Cross nurses packing packages for German POWs abroad, footage from the German hospital ship Tübingen and from a German field hospital at Lake Garda, and footage from German pilot recruits during gliding flight.

There are also some annotations from the German Federal Archive before the episode.
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Subtitles made by me.

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