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Berlin Duty Training film 221581-06 | Footage Farm

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Channel: footagefarm · 2014 · Film & Animation

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1960s
A training & orientation film.
Door drops & troops out of back of armored personnel carrier w/ rifles; run thru wet, muddy field.  Tanks move past w/ troops & guns alongside.  Past barbed wire of East Germany border & watchtower.  Tracking shot barbed wire fence & pan across road to Berlin Wall w/ East Berlin tenement housing.  
09:18:07  Checkpoint Charlie, US officer looking thru binoculars.  TITLE.
09:18:23  Training group stand next to fence, officer (SOF) "...we are being observed by Communist soldier in tower...".  Officer points out details of fence, minefield; explains it is to prevent East Germans escaping "to the Free World".  CU faces of US soldiers.
09:19:25  Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate - shots along wall, "an open & festering wound"; aerials of Berlin & wall, railroad, office & apartment buildings.  
09:19:56  Guard in watch tower looks thru binoculars.  West Berlin streets, buildings, statues.  Construction work - modern architecture.  Kurfurstendamm - crowds of pedestrians, sidewalk cafe CUs individual Germans.  Berlin Wall of stone blocks w/ graffiti.  Block of flats w/ bricked up windows on Eastern side of wall.  Wreath where East German died trying to flee to West.  
09:21:48  Vehicles passing of French; British troops parading; American GIs run from barracks to military armored personnel carriers & move down street.  People watch from balconies watch training alert exercise,  soldiers run into building & take up positions w/ guns etc.  Mock village on outskirts of Berlin used for military training.  Tanks.  Searching pseudo-houses etc in training.  Soldier firing machine gun. 
09:24:36  Army patrol along border in jeep driving next to Wall; past tourists.  Checkpoint Charlie & signs. Checkpoint Bravo to Autobahn; military vehicles along highway.  Railway station, civilians boarding trains, military guards.  Train pulls out of station to West Germany.  Tempelhof airport, radar dish  & USAF airport control.  Pan American jet taking off.  Monument re Berlin airlift of 1948-49. 
09:28:07  American military parade, troops march; tanks in parade.  Street sign John F. Kennedy Platz. Parade continues, Kennedy "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech (26Jun63) overlaid GIs marching, Germans watching.  The End.
Cold War; Eastern Bloc; Anti-Communism; American Propaganda; Freedom; Democracy; 1960s; USA;

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