News in Brief: The Last of the Reichstag

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1449A

Date Released

14 Mar 1957

Date submitted

8 Mar 1957

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Cross Country Championships
2. 2Ghana Parliament
3. 3Singapore Remembers
4. 4News in Brief: Ship Collision
5. 5News in Brief: The Last of the Reichstag
6. 6News in Brief: Earthquake in Greece
7. 7All Mod Con for Motorists
8. 8Gaza Strip Crisis
9. 9The Grand National is Coming
10. *Wales V Ireland
11. *To Fight Tb

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 9

Section Title

News in Brief

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Demolition of the Reichstag. DESCRIPTION: Germany’s old Parliament building, the Reichstag which was gutted during Hitler’s rise to power and bombarded again during the 2nd World War is being demolished. SHOTLIST: General view of the building. Shots of men working - demolishing the building. Shot of wall falling. CU of German crest. CU Hindenburg Crest.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Demolition

Locations

Germany; Berlin

Footage sources

Germany

Card file number

70022

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Length of story (in feet)

36

Story extras:

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