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East Berlin - The Wall 221647-05 | Footage Farm

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Channel: footagefarm · 2012 · Film & Animation

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1962. Kids kicking soccer ball on wet pavement; ball kicked over brick wall, CU boys looking up - freeze frame & main title:  The Wall.
01:41:00  Montage:  view down wall topped w/ barbed wire, sign:  Bernauer Straze.  View of Brandenburg gate thru wire; wall from bookstore, from trolley.  Other shots of brick wall; trolleys on end of run by wall; people waving across wall.  LS, MS, CUs.  Guard posts.
01:42:01  Communist policemen, soldiers w/ rifles, CU boots. walking; smoking, officers.  View for upper window looking across wall.  Man waving to children w/ hand signals.
01:42:52  Dusk w/ lights on, flashlights signaling.  Lights flashed in apartments.  Woman getting bundles thrown out of window.  Man jumps out of window into net held by firemen.  Communists holding woman from window; she is tugged till falling into firemen's net.  
01:44:09  CU adding large cinder blocks to wall; CUs people watching.  Soldiers guarding bricklayers.  Bricking up windows.  View of completed wall.  Barbed wire put across rooftops.
01:45:00  Crane lifting homes in East Berlin along wall.  People talking across barbed wire. 
01:45:48  East German soldiers using mirrors to blind West Germans; throwing tear gas over wall & returned from West Berlin.  CU sign;  mine field; soldiers patrolling; West German soldiers watching w/ binoculars.  Watch tower.  Soldier trips & falls.
01:46:28  Man runs from East & dives thru barbed wire held open by others; women thru fence w/ child.   MS of two young women after crossing thru barbed wire fence.
01:47:02  CU of loudspeakers.  East German soldiers smoking cigarettes, listening.  Stills of boy, Peter Fechter, shot by East Germans, faces of others, carrying him away.  Film of carrying Fechter away.  Still of grave marker & flowers; people beside memorials on west side of wall.
01:48:19  Peter Fechter St. sign tied over another.   Other markers for people killed; flowers placed.
01:48:43  Tilt up church beyond wall.  13August, West Berliners standing along street for 3 minutes of silence.Traffic stopped.  CU bell ringing.  Faces.  Shots along wall.
01:49:41  Title:  The End.
American Propaganda; 1962; Divisions; Divide; Cold War; Anti-Communist; Anti-Communism;
NOTE:  Produced by USIA.

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