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Pre-WWI - Germany, Newsreel Excerpts - 1900s Berlin & 1910s Germany

Reel Number: 220733-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1900s,1910s

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TC Begins: 12:20:02

TC Ends: 12:28:04

Duration: 00:08:02

Pre-WWI - Germany, Newsreel Excerpts - 1900s Berlin & 1910s Germany 1900s Busy city street w/ railroad bridge crossing over & busy traffic. People off European train at railroad station. Women w/ huge hats walking in street. Boarding taxi; horse-drawn buses & coaches. Actors performing on stage (?) w/ early 1900s set (Leipzig on sign). Germany, troops drill wearing Pickelhaube helmets. High Angle / HA military parade or demonstration; street scenes & monuments; large government (?) buildings. Early street scenes w/ horse-drawn trollies / coaches, one w/ broken wooden wheel. Firewagons pulled out of firehouse, horses brought to attach. Firemen past on several horse-drawn wagons. Slug (brief) of reused fiction film footage. High Angle / HA Leisure boats & summer excursion boat on lake. Peddle boats. German officer & aristocrats talking w/ elegant ladies in big hats chatting in field; horse race & steeplechase. Early zeppelin in flight & pulled into hangar. Auto road race (brief). Procession wealthy people in horse-drawn carriages. Slugs (brief) of music conductor saluting; two actors talking. Street scenes incl. man w/ hand-cranked organ, kids on street & dancing in street. Man crossing city canal on bridge; others outside house. Slug. 12:23:28 Mobilization: poster on wall, recruits training w/ rifles & wearing Pickelhaube helmets; German troops leave for war as cheering crowd wave straw hats in front of Reichstag; man in Prussian hat. Slug. German troops march across field in countryside; grave. Slug from German film re going to war. German troops marching along road to war followed by young children; officers on horseback, crowds waving. thru towns, cities & countryside. Montage of headlines & newspapers from 1914. Troops march, wagon train thru village Refugees on foot, pushing barrows & carrying bundles past bullet marked houses; escape town on horse-drawn carts. German troops eat and rest. Berlin people at cafe terrace. Music hall set w/ man & woman in airplane while singing. Montage of German sheet music. Slug / clip from feature w/ wedding scene. 1900s; 1910s; Pre-WW1; Daily Life; Homefront;

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