Berlin Documentary
In 1961, as the Berlin Wall rises, an American air traffic controller at Tempelhof takes his family on a tour of a divided city: Checkpoint Charlie, the Brandenburg Gate, British armored cars at the sector line, the Soviet war memorial behind barbed wire, and West Berlin’s Christmas shoppers. Raw U.S. Air Force footage from the National Archives.
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Public domain · Source: Wikimedia Commons (from the National Archives, via Public.Resource.Org)
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Footage shot by U.S. Air Force cameramen in West Berlin in August and December 1961, months after the Berlin Wall went up, and kept in the National Archives. Unedited reels with no narration, including the slates the cameramen filmed between shots.
- Live action
Filmed with a camera, with actors and real locations.
Credits
- Production
- United States Air Force
- Cameramen (as slated)
- Gladden, Dumuloin
- With
- MSgt Charles J. Darr, watch supervisor, Berlin Air Traffic Control Center, and his family
- Archive
- National Archives, Local Identifier 342-USAF-31891A
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