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1961 Berlin Border Action 250077-10.mp4 | Footage Farm

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Channel: footagefarm · 2011 · Film & Animation

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Slate: 12Sep61  Camera:  Harper.
08:55:29  LSs, people standing at intersection; watching distant checkpoint at Friedrichstrasse.  LS, American MPs talking to civilians.  LSs, MSs, Two MPs at sidewalk desk in front of shop, officer stands, looks thru binoculars; puts them down & talks to men at the desk. 
08:57:04  unrelated.
08:57:16  Slate.  same.
08:57:25  GOOD telephoto shot of East Berlin w/ East German Police (VOPOS) in an armored car looking thru binoculars.  
08:58:03  Friedrichstrasse crossing. MLS, three VOPO guards at barrier at Charlotten Strasse. Civilians standing.
08:58:19  East German police standing by sentry box.  Camera pans w/ three policemen as they walk away. 08:59:06  CU, VOPO w/ submachine gun on shoulder; he is joined by another.  
08:59:28  MLS, flags on top of building in East Berlin.  HS, East Berlin Friedrichstrasse. A car is zigzagging thru the barriers.  HS, almost deserted street & the Wall at the Friedrichstrasse border.  
09:00:28  A car going thru Friedrichstrasse border.  Pan, deserted East Berlin Friedrichstrasse to the Wall.    09:01:38  Slate:  same.
09:01:46  West German boy standing looking over the Wall as a truckload of East German police arrive.  The truck backs up, stops.  Soldiers on the other side of the Wall get out of the truck, watched by West German teenagers; at Jerusalemer Strasse.  Looking over the concrete Wall thru barbed wire w/ East German police standing, some pedestrians.
09:05:09  Looking over the Wall at Zimmerstrasse & Linden Strasse w/ cars parked nearby.
09:05:33  East German scout cars & troops standing about.
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