BERLIN AIRLIFT (EDITED FOOTAGE) - "THE BRIDGE" ; BERLIN AIRLIFT (EDITED FOOTAGE) "LITTLE VITTLES" Part 1

Description

Signal Corps 111 ADC 7455-1 ADC 7455 SOURCE: CAD Ftge Card 1 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 766 ea Comp (Std) RG 111 BERLIN AIRLIFT (Edited Footage) = "THE BRIDGE" Accession III-NAV-210 Orig Review 19 Apr 1949 LS, streetcars entering tunnel. Scene from streetcar under way. Pedestrians on street. Int, lights going out in building. LS, headlights of car at night on street. People walking up from subway station. Countergirl selling bread in bakery. Canned food on scale. Boy gives his father, airfield worker, a teddy bear for one of the pilots. Officer from operations drives up in car; two pilots approach and they speak. LS, fliers approach snack bar on field. German laborer presents teddy bear to flier who gave him a pipe. Ints, pilot sets teddy bear in his plane. Later, Lt arrives home, greets his family and presents teddy bear to the children. Ints, plane in flight, Lt walks to one of the portholes and drops candy by parachute. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/me Signal Corps 111 ADC 7455-2 ADC 7455 SOURCE: CAD Ftge Card 2 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 766 ea Comp (Std) RG 111 BERLIN AIRLIFT (Edited Footage) Accession III_NAV_210 "LITTLE VITTLES" Orig Rev 4/19/49 LS, kids running toward camera. Kids opening package of chocolate bars. LS, plane taxiing along strip. German laborer greets his Lt friend and shows him headline in paper stating that protest meeting is being held. Tremendous crowd of people assembled in Potsdammer Platz. Short CU, wind sock. LS, plane flying low over airfield, coming in and flashing its lights. LS, lights of airfield building at dusk. CU, pilot in plane speaks over mike. Soldiers at control panel in observation tower. CU, radar screens. Enlisted men firemen pouring water from hoses into burning plane. Pan, planes parked at Templehof. Montage: Flying planes, unloading of equipment from trucks, workmen; planes in flight superimposed over spinning airplane propeller. FS, Sunderland flying boat lifting off lake. Crowd of children running across Templehof Airfield. Children surround American pilots. Pilots hold bouquets which the children have given them. LS, door of plane being closed. LS, plane speeding along runway for takeoff. RA, C-54 lifting off field and flying toward horizon.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities