NOW THAT THE WALL IS DOWN BETWEEN EAST AND WEST BERLIN, THERE WILL BE SOME WORK TO DO TO MAKE THINGS TRULY FREE.

JOHN F KENNEDY meets with NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV reporters assembled, KENNEDY speaks, East Berliners escape as the Berlin Wall is being built, some run through barbed wire, some jump out of buildings, Berlin Wall being built

ORIG. COLOR 525' SOF MAG ESTABLISHING SHOTS OF BERLIN WALL, BARBED WIRE ON TOP. LS BORDER GUARD IN BOOTH. GUARDS CLEANING AREA BEYOND WALL. VS OF NEW WALL AND OLD WALL TOGETHER. BORDER GUARDS WITH DOG. CEMETERY NEAR WALL. MOLONEY SU. GENERAL SHOTS OF GUARDS CLEANING OUT CEMETERY. ARMORED CARS AND TANKS. VS GUARDS AROUND WALL. LS ACROSS WALL TO AMERICAN SECTOR (?) CI: GEO - E. GERMANY W. BERLIN. BUILDINGS - WALLS BERLIN WALL.

News Highlights of 1961 - Berlin Wall

b&w newsreel - East German blockade - refugees await processing - families - Berlin Airlift - people board plane - plane takes off - people at railroad station - troops build Berlin Wall - unroll barbed wire - people gather at fence - Mayor Willy Brandt - guards at fence - Communism - Germany - Cold War - East and West Berlin

00:00:00:00 NO FONT; NO COURTESY INFORMATION GIVEN FOR FILM -VARIOUS at :00 B/W video of women being caught in barbed wire of Berlin Wall after / at : they try to run / at :03 man studies papers a ...

Close up of the Berlin Wall with barbed wire on top

In East Berlin, a man ducks and crawls under barbed wire while the Berlin Wall is under construction. He runs toward West Berlin, smiling.

Scenes from a tunnel and freight yard with a voice-over reading excerpts from the experience of Jewish deportees. Footage from inside a freight carriage showing the walls, doors and barbed wire. 1941, 1942.

The Freedom bell of West Berlin is seen ringing. The Brandenburg Gate from behind barbed wires. The Berlin Wall crossing and blocking Bernauer StraBe. It appears to be under construction with wooden forms in places. It is covered with obstacles and barbed wire. Anti-tank obstacles inside the inner and outer walls of the Berlin Wall. The Church of the Reconciliation, next to the Berlin wall on Beinauer Street. Berlin street sign "Potsdamer Platz". Anti-tank barriers behind barbed wires in Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. A small sign reads "Ida Siekmann", the first casualty at the Berlin Wall. Bricked up windows of a building in Bernauer StraBe 48. United States flag atop a flagpole in the US Army checkpoint, popularly known as Checkpoint Charlie, in West Berlin. A sign board outside a building reads: 'US Army Check Point'. Checkpoint Charlie seen from above. U.S. soldiers aboard a jeep passing on the street. Memorial services held by West Berlin mayor Wiily Brandt for the people who died attempting to cross the wall in Bernauer StraBe. People march to protest against the Berlin wall and carry a cross with the words 'Wir Klagen An' which mean 'We Accuse' in English. Crowd gathered at the wall throwing rocks in protest. Location: Berlin Germany. Date: August 13, 1962.

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ORIG. NEG. 200 FT. SIL SIDE ANGLE SHOT OF BERLIN WALL. CU BARBED WIRE. MS EAST GERMAN GUARD ON OTHER SIDE OF WALL. MS MAN LOOKING OVER WALL. VARIOUS SHOTS WINDOWS, DOORS, ETC. LS KURFURSTENDAM, A MAIN STREET IN WEST BERLIN. MS A TAXI DRIVER REFUSES TO TAKE PASSENGER UNTIL ONE HOUR AFTER DEMONSTRATION OF THE BERLIN WALL IS OVER. CI: GEOGRAPHIC - GERMANY, W. BERLIN. BUILDINGS - WALLS, BERLIN WALL. STREETS - FOREIGN, GERMANY, W. BERLIN.

BARBED WIRE & EAST GERMAN GUARD ALONG BERLIN WALL

B&w - documentary - East Berlin - history - main street - soldiers march - Russian troops - Nikita Khrushchev embraces Walter Ulbricht - East German ready to leave - police guard border - workers build wall - church behind wall - fire hose sprayed at camera - armored vehicle - watchtowers - helicopter patrol - workers build barbed wire fence - people displaced by wall - guard releases tear gas - people flee from border houses - parents wave at daughter's wedding in West Berlin - woman says goodbye to daughter across barbed wire - E. German guard escapes over fence - Soviet Union - Cold War - repression - Germany

In attempt to keep up communications in the divided city, West Berliners gather in the street to wave to their former neighbors now trapped in East Berlin behind barbed wire.

PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH ADDRESS TO THE GERMAN PEOPLE ON THE REUNIFICATION OF GERMANY.

ECU of barbed-wire on the Berlin Wall. A guard in the background at the Brandenburg gate. A family with children talking to the guards on patrol in the space between East and West Berlin. People standing, waiting on a pavement. LS of the Wall. 40 km of wall through houses and buildings, shops. These are closed off, abandoned. Guards walking along fences. CU faces in East Berlin looking toward West Berlin.

News: Pan of the Berlin Wall under construction; bricks set in wall, patrolled by Soviets. Women separated by wall of barbwire speak, watched by Soviet guards, they wave goodbye to each other and cry (Mother and Daughter). 01:58:00:00 Teen makes dash for freedom under barbed wire, he makes it! Others make break for freedom, one girl is shot dead at barbed wire wall. 01:58:31:00: East Berlin with signs and guards patrol wall. Barbed wire rolled out at wall. Wall constructed, people on either side wave to each other. Old woman with binoculars look out at wall. 01:59:39:00 1989: Color: The wall comes down. People hammer at wall, sit on wall, party at wall. People stream through the wall, shake hands with Soviet guards; fireworks at Brandenburg gate; couple kisses at wall. To view this clip, please visit www.filmarchivesonline.com/onlineindex.shtml and click on SCOURGE OF BERLIN WALL

Checkpoint Charlie (FriedrichstraBe 43-45, 10117 Berlin, Germany) separating Western and Eastern Berlin. A large Soviet flag at the entrance to the eastern side, and a Checkpoint Charlie sign reads "You are leaving the American sector." A watchtower with military personnel inside watching all movement. Historical footage of the Berlin Wall being built circa 1961, with Soviet troops stringing barbed wire when the wall was first constructed. Views of a wreath, flowers, and makeshift memorial, presumably for someone killed while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall. A watch tower high above the Berlin Wall, and views of the Berlin Wall separating West Berlin from East Germany, constructed of large flat, grey bricks and blocks of varying sizes. Location: Berlin Germany. Date: 1969.

Berlin misc. shots

News In Brief - Berlin [Wall on 6th Anniversary]

During mounting Berlin Crisis, view of map of Germany with separated East and West Germany. East Berlin refugees gathered and on streets with their luggage at Marienfeld Refugee Reception Center in West Berlin. They are among the last to escape East Berlin before the Soviets close the border. Refugees in queue to be processed entering West Berlin. Old woman refugee smiles as she helps a young boy drink from a cup. Refugees at airport with their children to be flown to other cities in West Germany. They board plane and it takes off. People at railway station to see off their relatives as they flee East Germany. East German soldiers digging emplacements in roadway near Brandenburg Gate to erect blockade (the beginning of what became the Berlin Wall). They unload a truck filled with poles. Soldiers wire the border. People watch soldiers running barbed wire enclosing East Berlin territory; the beginning of the Berlin Wall. Willy Brandt, mayor of West Berlin, with others on street. Communist soldiers on the closed border. A Russian soldier on the East side of the road divided with barbed wire fence. Tanks and people on road. Location: Berlin Germany. Date: August 1961.