The first issues of the ARRI 35 since 1937 were not exported abroad and were used for shooting newsreels, including military ones. Operators of the Wehrmacht filmed "Ariflex" for army needs, for example, during aerial reconnaissance. "Arriflex 35" surpassed the most massive chronicle of the Anti-Hitler Coalition "Aimo" due to the presence of a continuous viewer and a long duration of continuous shooting, allowing you to shoot more than two minutes without stopping. However, in combat conditions, the electric drive with capricious batteries proved to be less reliable than the spring one. After the defeat of the German troops near Moscow, the German propaganda ministry explained the absence in the Deutsche Wochenschau newsreel of the reports on the fighting by the fact that "the chambers froze. Over the years, the camera has undergone many changes, and the release of the cameras themselves continued until 1995.