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Welt Im Film: Great Politics, No. 208; Berlin Railway Strike, No. 209; May Day & Clay Goodbye, No 206

Reel Number: 221414-13

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1949

Country: Germany

Location: Berlin

TC Begins: 03:17:25

TC Ends: 03:25:36

Duration: 00:08:11

Welt Im Film - Aus Der Groben Politik (Great Poltics, Excerpt No. 208) Title 03:17:45 Reuter at Berlin airport shakes hands greeting Ernst Bevin; Bevin walking w/ English Air Commander. Germans listening as Bevin speaks via translator. 03:18:20 Out of conference meeting, Bevin waves to crowd. Into car & leaving in motorcade lead by British MP military police escort. 03:18:37 Title: Railway Employees Strike In Berlin (Excerpt No. 209) Empty tracks, stations, parked trains. men standing ouitside works. civilians waiting out side closed stations. Police holding back strikers. Communists (?) walking along tracks, setting cars on fire. Students pushing them. Police watch, then fighting. People cheering strike breakers (?). Fighting w/ police. Arrest. West German police walking three abreast. The End. 03:21:55 Title: May Day 60th Year No. 206. Workers march for May Day, 1947 in Hamburg w/ banners; w/ speakers in Essen, Regen, Stuttgart, Munich & other cities. People listening. CU of people marching w/ banners of Stalin, flags & other banners as airlift planes overhead. Large mass in East Berlin listen to speakers. 03:23:55 Title Abschiedsparade vor General Clay (Goodbye Parade...) No. 206 Clay in jeep saluting troops as he stands riding past. At mic; people watching, marching band, flags, marching troops. Tanks past, trucks w/ guns, low pipercub flyover, other planes over. Cars leaving. The End. Post-WWII Germany Sectors; Cold War; Airlift; Military Government Newsreel; Post-WW2;

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