Berlin Duty
A training & orientation film.
Door drops & troops out of back of armored personnel carrier w/ rifles; run thru wet, muddy field. Tanks move past w/ troops & guns alongside. Past barbed wire of East Germany border & watchtower. Tracking shot barbed wire fence & pan across road to Berlin Wall w/ East Berlin tenement housing.
09:18:07 Checkpoint Charlie, US officer looking thru binoculars. TITLE.
09:18:23 Training group stand next to fence, officer (SOF) “...we are being observed by Communist soldier in tower...”. Officer points out details of fence, minefield; explains it is to prevent East Germans escaping “to the Free World”. CU faces of US soldiers.
09:19:25 Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate - shots along wall, “an open & festering wound”; aerials of Berlin & wall, railroad, office & apartment buildings.
09:19:56 Guard in watch tower looks thru binoculars. West Berlin streets, buildings, statues. Construction work - modern architecture. Kurfurstendamm - crowds of pedestrians, sidewalk cafe CUs individual Germans. Berlin Wall of stone blocks w/ graffiti. Block of flats w/ bricked up windows on Eastern side of wall. Wreath where East German died trying to flee to West.
09:21:48 Vehicles passing of French; British troops parading; American GIs run from barracks to military armored personnel carriers & move down street. People watch from balconies watch training alert exercise, soldiers run into building & take up positions w/ guns etc. Mock village on outskirts of Berlin used for military training. Tanks. Searching pseudo-houses etc in training. Soldier firing machine gun.
09:24:36 Army patrol along border in jeep driving next to Wall; past tourists. Checkpoint Charlie & signs. Checkpoint Bravo to Autobahn; military vehicles along highway. Railway station, civilians boarding trains, military guards. Train pulls out of station to West Germany. Tempelhof airport, radar dish & USAF airport control. Pan American jet taking off. Monument re Berlin airlift of 1948-49.
09:28:07 American military parade, troops march; tanks in parade. Street sign John F. Kennedy Platz. Parade continues, Kennedy “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech (26Jun63) overlaid GIs marching, Germans watching. The End.
Cold War; Eastern Bloc; Anti-Communism; American Propaganda; Freedom; Democracy; 1960s; USA;
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Berlin Duty A training & orientation film. Door drops & troops out of back of armored personnel carrier w/ rifles; run thru wet, muddy field. Tanks move past w/ troops & guns alongside. Past barbed wire of East Germany border & watchtower. Tracking shot barbed wire fence & pan across road to Berlin Wall w/ East Berlin tenement housing. 09:18:07 Checkpoint Charlie, US officer looking thru binoculars. TITLE. 09:18:23 Training group stand next to fence, officer (SOF) “...we are being observed by Communist soldier in tower...”. Officer points out details of fence, minefield; explains it is to prevent East Germans escaping “to the Free World”. CU faces of US soldiers. 09:19:25 Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate - shots along wall, “an open & festering wound”; aerials of Berlin & wall, railroad, office & apartment buildings. 09:19:56 Guard in watch tower looks thru binoculars. West Berlin streets, buildings, statues. Construction work - modern architecture. Kurfurstendamm - crowds of pedestrians, sidewalk cafe CUs individual Germans. Berlin Wall of stone blocks w/ graffiti. Block of flats w/ bricked up windows on Eastern side of wall. Wreath where East German died trying to flee to West. 09:21:48 Vehicles passing of French; British troops parading; American GIs run from barracks to military armored personnel carriers & move down street. People watch from balconies watch training alert exercise, soldiers run into building & take up positions w/ guns etc. Mock village on outskirts of Berlin used for military training. Tanks. Searching pseudo-houses etc in training. Soldier firing machine gun. 09:24:36 Army patrol along border in jeep driving next to Wall; past tourists. Checkpoint Charlie & signs. Checkpoint Bravo to Autobahn; military vehicles along highway. Railway station, civilians boarding trains, military guards. Train pulls out of station to West Germany. Tempelhof airport, radar dish & USAF airport control. Pan American jet taking off. Monument re Berlin airlift of 1948-49. 09:28:07 American military parade, troops march; tanks in parade. Street sign John F. Kennedy Platz. Parade continues, Kennedy “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech (26Jun63) overlaid GIs marching, Germans watching. The End. Cold War; Eastern Bloc; Anti-Communism; American Propaganda; Freedom; Democracy; 1960s; USA;