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Go to HomepageReel Number: 300145
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1920s
Country: Germany
Location: Berlin,Dulsburg,Prussia,river ruhr,Ruhr District,Weimar
TC Begins: 01:00:04
TC Ends: 01:09:40
Duration: 00:09:36
Post-WWI - 1920s , Germany: Weimar Republic Scenes High pans across railway freight yard at Duisburg, Germany - loaded goods wagons in sidings - armed soldiers patrolling tracks. Deserted railroad station w/ Duisburg sign. Troops waiting on platform; steam locomotive w/ coal wagon backs out of station slowly, watched by soldiers - during occupation of Ruhr district. 01;01:00 Soldier serving up food to civilian women. Slug. 01:01:27 High shot across river to unid. town. Street scenes. Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor (1923), Foreign Minister (1923-1929) & Nobel laureate (1926) & unid. man. Graduation ceremony? - men down stairs & talking outdoors - Stresemann poses for camera w/ two men wearing ceremonial robes & one other. Slug. 01:02:06 Parade through streets w/ cavalry, open-top car w/ Hindenburg past crowds & German ‘Black-White-Red’ flags ? hanging from buildings - German policeman in FG. Hindenburg meets children & drinks from gold cup - signposts inc. ‘Stadt Duisburg’. Packed stadium - Hindenburg gives speech - crowd wave hats - unid. flags white w/ dark cross & emblem of some kind. Slug. 01:03:01 Berlin - policemen forming human chain to hold back crowd; top shots crowd around Victory Column in central Berlin - CU Politician / President of Prussia Wilhelm Marx on balcony - during election battle w/ Hindenburg (1924 ?) 01:03:37 Officer reviewing troops on snowy wasteland - troops march past w/ rifles. Slug. 01:03:57 Crowds in square opposite Reichstag building, Berlin - top shot waving hats in unison. Line of police, some on horseback, holding back crowd. Slug. 01:04:42 High shots cavalry & troops parade through streets of Berlin? Huge crowds. Night torchlight parade - only flames visible. Sign spelled out in candles re ‘Black-Red-Gold’ flag of Republic - ‘Hoch die Deutsche Republik Reichsbanner Schwarz Rot Gold’ - eagle symbol lit up in center. Slug. 01:05:53 People marching along street w/ banners & unid. flags - looks like Bavaria - men w/ armbands. Group of German officers w/ spiked helmets. Unusual tracking shot unid. generals in open top car along street past crowds, filmed from adjacent car. Slug. 01:06:48 Unid. official & military officials arriving & departing unid. building by car - woman in enormous hat & fur coat with them. Slug. 01:07:07 Hindenburg into open-top car. Huge crowd waving. Top shots motorcade through streets w/ motorcycle escort. Good shot Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate as motorcade passes through - tracking shot towards Unter den Linden. Hindenburg & government officials down staircase flanked by crowds - wave hats in unison. Slug. 01:08:29 Troops marching slowly down street lined w/ ceremonial smoke stacks giving off thick black smoke. Coffin past on gun carriage followed by mourners. Funeral cortege / procession towards Brandenburg Gate. Carriages loaded w/ flowers. Mourners filing past open grave site. Could be funeral of Hindenburg or Stresemann ?. Post-WW2 Germany 1920s; NOTE: Have same reel speed corrected on 221093-02 & 221093-03.