1961- Germany: Berlin Border Action, 12Sep61

1961- Germany: Berlin Border Action, 12Sep61 Slate: 12Sep61 Camera: Harper. 08:55:29 LSs, people standing at intersection; watching distant checkpoint at Friedrichstrasse. LS, American MPs talking to civilians. LSs, MSs, Two MPs at sidewalk desk in front of shop, officer stands, looks thru binoculars; puts them down & talks to men at the desk. 08:57:04 unrelated. 08:57:16 Slate. same. 08:57:25 GOOD telephoto shot of East Berlin w/ East German Police (VOPOS) in an armored car looking thru binoculars. 08:58:03 Friedrichstrasse crossing. MLS, three VOPO guards at barrier at Charlotten Strasse. Civilians standing. 08:58:19 East German police standing by sentry box. Camera pans w/ three policemen as they walk away. 08:59:06 CU, VOPO w/ submachine gun on shoulder; he is joined by another. 08:59:28 MLS, flags on top of building in East Berlin. HS, East Berlin Friedrichstrasse. A car is zigzagging thru the barriers. HS, almost deserted street & the Berlin Wall at the Friedrichstrasse border. 09:00:28 A car going thru Friedrichstrasse border. Pan, deserted East Berlin Friedrichstrasse to the Wall. 09:01:38 Slate: same. 09:01:46 West German boy standing looking over the Wall as a truckload of East German police arrive. The truck backs up, stops. Soldiers on the other side of the Wall get out of the truck, watched by West German teenagers; at Jerusalemer Strasse. Looking over the concrete Wall thru barbed wire w/ East German police standing, some pedestrians. 09:05:09 Looking over the Wall at Zimmerstrasse & Linden Strasse w/ cars parked nearby. 09:05:33 East German scout cars & troops standing about. Divided City; East Berlin; Sectors; Berlin Wall; Daily Life; Cold War;