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Post-WWII - Welt Im Film Sections: Blockade Aftermath; Parliament meets

Reel Number: 250037-17

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1949

Country: Germany

Location: Berlin

TC Begins: 00:55:09

TC Ends: 01:00:40

Duration: 00:05:31

Post-WWII - Welt Im Film Sections 00:55:25 End of the blockade. Man w/ microphone, crowd around and surrounded by destruction. MCUs. Passenger train cars out of storage shop, swept, polished, cleaned, engine steaming. Switches moved, train in yard. Large bulldozer & earthmovers working on airfield construction, civilians & soldiers working. 00:56:58 Metal landing strip sections; large USAF Boeing 377 Stratocruiser freighter C-97 plane being fueled on field, 559595 on tail. Loading bags of ?? onto conveyor into plane from truck. Plane taking off. 00:57:26 Plane landing low over buildings. 00:57:52 Men & women workers watching from trucks, preparing to unload. 00:58:03 Man at desk, SOF speaks to camera (German) about blockade. 00:58:34 Title: Nachrichten aus Deutschland. (Goodbye to General Lucius Clay) Clay shaking hands w/ various German VIPs. Looks at large plans , smiles & shakes hands. 00:59:28 Parliament meeting in Bonn, men intently listening to speaker. Voting w/ show of hands; Konrad Adenauer counting votes from raised front platform. Delegates applauding. CU page: Entwurf des Grundgesetzes. (Rules for German Republic ?). German flag raised on pole in breeze; flying in front of Parliament building. The End. German Occupation Newsreel; Post-WW2; 1949;

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