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

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

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.

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

2/4/2024

Cuban leader Fidel Castro meets Nikita Khrushchev and other Soviet politicians. Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro leaves with their entourage. The Brandenburg Gate as seen from the West Berlin side at the height of the Cold War. Barbed wires on the border of East and West Berlin. The construction of the Berlin Wall. East German soldier guards the border between the two Berlins. East German guard Konrad Schumann jumps over the barbed wire while dropping his PPSh-41 submachine gun as he escapes to West Berlin during the construction of the Berlin Wall. Schumann runs towards and boards a West Berlin police van. Host or narrator of the film shows photographs of Fidel Castro with Nikita Khrushchev and the "Leap into Freedom" photo by West German photographer Peter Leibing. "The communists are the true colonialists, as a matter of fact." The narrator said as the show reaches its conclusion. Location: Berlin Germany. Date: August 15, 1961.

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 ...

Berlin, Germany. <br/> <br/>German commentary, documentation on file. <br/> <br/>V.S. Near the Reichstag in Berlin the East German soldiers going about the building of a better wall of prefabricated parts. The old barbed wire being replaced by large white bricks <br/> <br/>(Comb. F.G.)

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

BERLIN WALL, BARBED WIRE ENTANGLEMENT, SOLDIERS GUARD BERLIN WALL

British troops at Haus des Rundfunks radio station in West Berlin

/ montage - scenes of Berlin Wall with barbed wire, border guards, checkpoints, Allied checkpoint.

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.

6/15/2024

News Highlights of 1961 - Berlin Wall

Location: Berlin Wall, Berlin. East Germany <br/> <br/>Story about Berlin at Christmas <br/> <br/>VS. General activity on East German side of the wall taken from West German side. Communist armed guards patrol while another team demolish a house. MS two East German guards laughing whilst looking through binoculars into the West. MS Looking along top of the Berlin wall covered with barbed wire. <br/> <br/>VS. At night, good coverage of Berlin [West Berlin?] street scenes, showing traffic, pedestrians and brightly lit shops at Christmas. LS. East German lookout post with two candles burning in foreground. LS. Brandenburg Gate with candles burning in foreground. (FG.)

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

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

Weeping woman begs border guards to let her cross to West Berlin

UNIVERSAL CLIPS - FOX / MOVIETONE 1961 - 1964 - BERLINE WALL TENSIONS / ARTSY SHOT OF BARBED WIRE / MINE FIELDS / BUILDING OF WALL / MORE BERLIN WALL ( NO AUDIO ) / BUILDING THE WALL / CLIP OF A CHECKPOINT / PEOPLE LOOKING OVER THE WALL / COMMUNIST CLOSE BERLIN'S BORDERS TO STOP EXODUS / ( NO AUDIO ) / SOLDIERS WORKING IN THE FIELDS / LAYING BARBED WIRE / WEST GERMAN LOOKING AT WALL / CAR TRIED TO GET THRU BLOCKADE / WALL OF INFAMY - FIRST ANNIVERSARY - 1962 / TANKS IN CITY / BUILDING THE WALL / PEOPLE JUMPING OUT OF APT BUILDING / GUY ESCAPE THRU FENCE / BERLIN BARRICADE .