On the Brink

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1686A
Date Released
28 Sep 1961
Date submitted
19 Sep 1961
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1A Family Affair
  2. 2On the Brink
  3. 3Big Fall-Down
  4. 4Operation Oyster
  5. 5Karting Klimax

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: On the Brink. DESCRIPTION: A narrow cart-track is the only link with the city for farmers in Eiskeller, an offshoot of West Berlin. British troops have been giving them protection, while they’ve been getting in the harvest. The farmers are almost entirely cut off, almost completely surrounded by the hostility of the East German regime. The Iron Curtain in the city itself is now a concrete wall. It marks the brink of freedom, and West Berliners come close to it to wave to friends and relatives in East Berlin. Tear-gas bombs are hurled over from the East to drive them off, but whenever they can, the people throw them back again! SHOTLIST: Key scene. LS pan from warning notice to cart track. MLS combine harvester. MS British soldiers in tank. MS combine harvester. LS same. LS British tank. MS combine harvester. MLS guard patrol in Berlin. MS barbed wire marking separate section of the 2 sides. MS wall. MLS West Berliners waving. MS East Berliners waving back. MS others. LS pan tear gas bomb being thrown. MS bombs explode by a car. MLS man throws a bomb back. LS street with an exploded bomb. CU man wiping his eyes. CU pan man with crying baby. LS water being hosed on Berliners. LS same. LS pan water being hosed on people. MLS people watching.
Keywords
Buildings and structures; Agriculture; Military
Locations
Berlin
Footage sources
Germany
Card file number
83196
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
111
Story extras:
Film clip

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