Bridge, The

Titles 03:08:35 Heavily damaged Reichstag, tram or streetcar thru heavy destruction, Jun48. People sit in sun of outdoor cafe, pedestrians, traffic. 03:09:07 High angle across square to people walking to checkpoint. CU factories closing down; people standing on sidewalks in large crowd. Sitting on curb reading paper. 03:09:51 C-47 Dakota landing, unloading planes, taxiing; army trucks & German men loading into truck & moving bags out of plane. Night w/ lights across field. Pilots. Men w/ trucks by planes. Wheel backing over man’s pipe. 03:11:27 Airmen past buildings & into building for briefing. Onto tarmac & into C47 for Operation Vittles, POV thru & over clouds. 03:12:22 Ambulance to plane crash site after plane into building, scrap hauled away. Airmen onto plane; C-54 planes overhead w/ civilian markings. Briefing. Map showing zones of Germany showing corridors for flights & showing Tegel, Tempelhof & ?? Animated illustrations of routes & patterns of flights. Cross section showing altitudes of routes. 03:15:05 Pilot, co-pilot & or navigator w/ switches in cockpit & taking off of C-54. Planes coming in, men moving sacks of flour, trucks moving past checkpoint. Bakers & huge ovens. Coal unloaded & bags tossed off railroad cars. Large shovel moving coal, time cards, factory working. Doctor examining kids as others watch. Abrupt end. Post-WWII; Cold War; Berlin Blockade; Airlift; 1948;