Learning on ScreenThe Divided City
Series
- Series Name
- Look At Life
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- 1 / 1
- Summary
- BFI synopsis: Travelogue - Berlin. Panning aerial shots: the Mayor’s offices: Emperor William Memorial Church (94): Willy Brandt, Mayor of West Berlin, arriving in London on April 21st 1959 for discussion on how long the city will remain divided: close-up of Willy Brandt (104): carillon in the Memorial Church: West Berlin street markets: Housewives shopping: main street in Berlin - the Kurfurstendamm: notice board - "You are now leaving the American sector" in three languages: border barriers of East Berlin: trams: frontier police check cars on both sides of the border: bridge marking another section of the border: Communist slogans displayed in East Berlin: bears in the West Berlin Zoo: car rides in the park: children’s swings: fountains playing: sea-lions: tulip beds: beer gardens: people watching a display using large hoops: the aerial tower of Radio Free Berlin: panning views from the top: Congress Hall (375): blocks of flats: buses: ceremony commemorating the tenth anniversary of the time when Russia closed all roads and people were clothed and fed from the air: wreaths are laid on the memorial to the soldiers who gave their lives: Earl Attlee and Willy Brandt are among those present (519): map showing East and West Germany: map showing East and West Berlin: road leading to Brandenberg Gate (540): armed Red Guards on patrol: wreaths on the Russian War Memorial: notice - "You are now leaving the British sector, do not proceed beyond this point": West German police search each car coming through the border: East Berlin’s main street - Stalin Allee (665): blocks of flats, official buildings, propaganda posters: War memorial to 6,000 soldiers in the battle for Berlin (729): Statues and wreaths: blocks of flats: guards drive past in a lorry: the old theatre in ruins still to be rebuilt (803). Alexanderplatz tube entrance: War-damaged buildings near the border, yet to be rebuilt: the East German information ministry, formerly Goebbels’ propaganda building now rebuilt (868): ruins of Hitler’s Reich Chancellory: the air-raid centre, where Hitler died, half-blown out of its concrete bed (891): refugees from East Berlin in West Berlin: church bell ringing: aerial shots of the main street (985 ft).
- Researcher Comments
- Look At Life Series 2 comprises Issues 14-26. This issue also known as "Divided City".
- Keywords
- Scenery and travel
- Locations
- Berlin; West Germany; East Berlin; East Germany; West Berlin
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- Credits:
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- Production Co.
- The Rank Organisation Special Features Division
- Commentator
- Tim Turner
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