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1948 - Orphans Arrive / Transit Camps; Blockade Plane Crash; F-80s Arrive Berlin; George Marshall Irritated by Blockade

Reel Number: 250005-09

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1948

Country: Germany

Location: Berlin,DC,Washington

TC Begins: 10:14:48

TC Ends: 10:21:00

Duration: 00:06:12

1948 - Orphans Arrive / Transit Camps; Blockade Plane Crash; F-80s Arrive Berlin; George Marshall Irritated by Blockade Train arriving into station; people on platform greeting well-dressed children; some w/ name & date of birth sewed on back of jackets; greeted by adults (adopting?). 10:15:15 Kids outside school examined by woman doctor & nurses. Walking away in large group. 10:15:35 Title: London - Die Olympischen Spiele. 10:15:40 Title: Berlin Steht nach Wie Vor Im Mittlepunkt Der Weltpolitik. Hier Der Neueste Bildbericht - Direkt Aus Berlin. - Die Krise Dauert An 10:15:48 (dark) People watching circling planes during Berlin Blockade. 10:16:03 Plane wreckage; amulance thru street; MP & military officers. Damaged apartment building & C-47 Dakota wreckage hauled off on truck. Girl places flowers w/ note. Newspaper article. Plane overhead; interior w/ gunny sacks / bags of & unloading. Bakery making bread. Handing out to women; bakery interior but dark. 10:17:26 CU sign: You Are Now Leaving British Sector. People lined up on both sides of street; CU notice ?? Still photograph of overhead shot of crowd. 10:18:00 Policeman in intersection directing light traffic w/ damaged houses beyond. Exterior of USSR sector building; CU newspapers headlines. 10:18:20 Man, Dr. Friedensberg (sp?) at desk speaks (SOF): ?? 10:19:14 CU map of Berlin area of Germany, pull back to show zones of occupation. 10:19:36 Steam train thru freightyard w/ tanks on cars. 10:19:48 Four F80 / F-80 jet fighter planes low over parked airplanes; taxiing; pilots out & greeted. CU planes & insignia. Swish pan to... 10:20:19 Newspaper sw/ CU re London & Washington activity (in German); CU irritated George Marshall shaking fist, gesturing during testimony on Berlin blockade 10:20:53 The End. Post-WW2 Germany; Post-WWII; Cold War; Berlin Blockade;

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