WORLD IN FILM. Issue no. 176, 100 DAYS OF BLOCKADE Part 1

Description

Summary: Pan showing portion of the city of Berlin, wrecked buildings, Reichstag in bg. LS, several bldgs unidentified. People standing on corner. MS, one-legged man talking to a friend. Workers in steel mill. CU, workman using acetylene torch. Woman worker closing gate to subway entrance. Streetcars going into car barns. Housewife lighting stove jet. Night: Lights going out in homes. LS, several vehicles going through darkened street. Sequence: A copying machine powered by bicycle. LS, a German setting plants in garden. Pan to the Brandenburg gate Policeman in car speaking into microphone. Police car pulling away Meeting of city assembly. Dr Friedenberg, Vice-Mayor, Berlin, making a speech, of his hopes for the clearance of the present situation. HS, people at corner listening to radio. People buying newspapers at stand. CU, German newspaper with headline that Berlin problem has been put before UN. Int, food store, a clerk taking contents out of can and weighing it. Montage of Air Lift. People coming out of bakery; one woman carrying bread. Men working on new airfield at Tegel. Coal being loaded into barge at Gatow. A Sunderland flying boat taking off. American planes landing at Tempelhof airfield. LS, people watching planes fly over.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities