Kids kicking soccer ball on wet pavement; ball kicked over brick wall, CU boys looking up - freeze frame & main title: The Wall.
01:41:00 Montage: view down wall topped w/ barbed wire, sign: Bernauer Straze. View of Brandenburg gate thru wire; wall from bookstore, from trolley. Other shots of brick wall; trolleys on end of run by wall; people waving across wall. LS, MS, CUs. Guard posts.
01:42:01 Communist policemen, soldiers w/ rifles, CU boots. walking; smoking, officers. View for upper window looking across wall. Man waving to children w/ hand signals.
01:42:52 Dusk w/ lights on, flashlights signaling. Lights flashed in apartments. Woman getting bundles thrown out of window. Man jumps out of window into net held by firemen. Communists holding woman from window; she is tugged till falling into firemen’s net.
01:44:09 CU adding large cinder blocks to wall; CUs people watching. Soldiers guarding bricklayers. Bricking up windows. View of completed wall. Barbed wire put across rooftops.
01:45:00 Crane lifting homes in East Berlin along wall. People talking across barbed wire.
01:45:48 East German soldiers using mirrors to blind West Germans; throwing tear gas over wall & returned from West Berlin. CU sign; mine field; soldiers patrolling; West German soldiers watching w/ binoculars. Watch tower. Soldier trips & falls.
01:46:28 Man runs from East & dives thru barbed wire held open by others; women thru fence w/ child. MS of two young women after crossing thru barbed wire fence.
01:47:02 CU of loudspeakers. East German soldiers smoking cigarettes, listening. Stills of boy, Peter Fechter, shot by East Germans, faces of others, carrying him away. Film of carrying Fechter away. Still of grave marker & flowers; people beside memorials on west side of wall.
01:48:19 Peter Fechter St. sign tied over another. Other markers for people killed; flowers placed.
01:48:43 Tilt up church beyond wall. 13August, West Berliners standing along street for 3 minutes of silence.Traffic stopped. CU bell ringing. Faces. Shots along wall.
01:49:41 Title: The End.
American Propaganda; 1962; Divisions; Divide; Cold War; Anti-Communist; Anti-Communism;
NOTE: Produced by USIA.
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Kids kicking soccer ball on wet pavement; ball kicked over brick wall, CU boys looking up - freeze frame & main title: The Wall. 01:41:00 Montage: view down wall topped w/ barbed wire, sign: Bernauer Straze. View of Brandenburg gate thru wire; wall from bookstore, from trolley. Other shots of brick wall; trolleys on end of run by wall; people waving across wall. LS, MS, CUs. Guard posts. 01:42:01 Communist policemen, soldiers w/ rifles, CU boots. walking; smoking, officers. View for upper window looking across wall. Man waving to children w/ hand signals. 01:42:52 Dusk w/ lights on, flashlights signaling. Lights flashed in apartments. Woman getting bundles thrown out of window. Man jumps out of window into net held by firemen. Communists holding woman from window; she is tugged till falling into firemen’s net. 01:44:09 CU adding large cinder blocks to wall; CUs people watching. Soldiers guarding bricklayers. Bricking up windows. View of completed wall. Barbed wire put across rooftops. 01:45:00 Crane lifting homes in East Berlin along wall. People talking across barbed wire. 01:45:48 East German soldiers using mirrors to blind West Germans; throwing tear gas over wall & returned from West Berlin. CU sign; mine field; soldiers patrolling; West German soldiers watching w/ binoculars. Watch tower. Soldier trips & falls. 01:46:28 Man runs from East & dives thru barbed wire held open by others; women thru fence w/ child. MS of two young women after crossing thru barbed wire fence. 01:47:02 CU of loudspeakers. East German soldiers smoking cigarettes, listening. Stills of boy, Peter Fechter, shot by East Germans, faces of others, carrying him away. Film of carrying Fechter away. Still of grave marker & flowers; people beside memorials on west side of wall. 01:48:19 Peter Fechter St. sign tied over another. Other markers for people killed; flowers placed. 01:48:43 Tilt up church beyond wall. 13August, West Berliners standing along street for 3 minutes of silence.Traffic stopped. CU bell ringing. Faces. Shots along wall. 01:49:41 Title: The End. American Propaganda; 1962; Divisions; Divide; Cold War; Anti-Communist; Anti-Communism; NOTE: Produced by USIA.