1959 - Cold War, Germany: Berlin Street Scenes & Separation at Brandenburg Gate. 20Aug59

1959 - Cold War, Germany: Berlin Street Scenes & Separation at Brandenburg Gate. 20Aug59 Slate: 20Aug59, Berlin Briefing. View along street w/ pedestrians passing cafes on wide sidewalk. 05:03:47 Slate: same, Camera J.C. Bailey. Interior shop, dishes; women’s lingerie in store window & woman stops & looks. Shoppers passing large store windows on wide sidewalk. Women & men at outdoor cafe, talking at table & reading newspaper. 05:06:02 View across wide avenue w/ traffic to four-story apartment or office building. View up avenue w/ burned church , buses & cars passing. Volkswagens & other cars & vans. 05:07:18 Slate: same. LS sidewalk cafe, pedestrians passing. 05:08:13 Police & soldiers beside roadside w/ motorcycles & trucks parked. Talking on large walkie-talkies. 05:08:32 Police waiting on corner of large intersection, pan to Brandenburg gate w/ army half-track troop carriers w/ soldiers parked beneath. LS from bus stop w/ people waiting, bicycles. 05:09:01 CU sign: Achtung! Sie verlassen nach 40m West-Berlin; people waiting beside. Police, soldiers & military bus gather. Ribbons tied to small trees w/ police beside; dirt & rubble blocking road. Young girl on father’s shoulders watching. 05:10:24 Police tying blockade to sign: You are now leaving British Sector (Brandenburg Gate in background). People gathering; young girls watching. Older couple looking at large diagram & pointing to roads. CU small dog on leash leashing in sun. 05:11:12 People in shade stand watching border activity from behind barriers. Photographer, man w/ binoculars. Police water cannon truck arrives. East Germans soldiers watch from top of troop carrier under Brandenburg Gate. 05:12:28 East German soldiers / police stand smoking by pillars. Others w/ rifles; water cannon trucks. Armored truck w/ troops looking at machine gun mounted on top. Women walking past soldier . Water gun shooting. Soldier sitting on building roof. Troops watch camera w/ binoculars. CU East German flag. Man w/ very long telephoto lens on still camera. Soldier w/ binoculars on rooftop. 05:14:30 Soldiers march up arriving w/ bayonets on rifles. CU statue on top of Brandenburg Gate, soldiers beneath. Others on trucks beneath. 05:15:32 Black 05:15:38 Three young children looking out rear open window of Chevrolet station wagon & pointing; car pulls away & barbed wire blocking street from sidewalk seen. 05:15:51 Two soldiers in helmets at parade rest in front of WW2 Soviet War Memorial / Tiergarten w/ barbed wire coils behind soldiers. MCU Divisions; Berlin Wall Beginnings; 1950s; Street Scenes; Daily Life; East Germany; East Germans; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate.