The photograph shows Hamburg Harbor with busy inland shipping in the foreground: several tugboats and laden lighters lie or travel on the harbor basin. In the middle ground, a steel arch bridge in timber-frame construction spans the water; behind it rises a large ocean liner with two distinctive smokestacks, corresponding to the type of North Atlantic liner and attributable in the film’s context to the St. Louis or a sister ship. On the right side of the image, masts and superstructures of further harbor vessels densify into the typical silhouette of a major commercial port. The shot serves in the travel film as an introduction to Hamburg Harbor, one of Europe’s most significant transshipment centers, and forms the connection point to the preceding arrival of the steamer in Cuxhaven. It conveys the bustling atmosphere and industrial dimension of the harbor as a gateway to the world.