| Berlin Escape: Easterner Scales Cemetery Wall | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1741 |
| Catalog #: | 426791 | |
| Clip Number: | 426791-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 038-081-02 | |
| Timecode: | 00:02:45 - 00:03:46 | |
| Location: | Berlin, Germany | |
| Year Shot: | 1965 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BEHAVIOR, HUMAN: Courage LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Germany, Berlin WAR & CONFLICT/COLD WAR: Defector WAR & CONFLICT/COLD WAR: The Wall (Berlin Wall) | |
| Description: | Here is a social document of our times. At a cemetery on the East-West Berlin border, friends of an East Berliner raise a ladder from the West. He dashes to the ladder, then up and over to freedom. He has a fiancee in the West, proving that love laughs at locksmiths and border guards. High Angle shot - Cemetery in East Germany. CUS - Barbwire fence, a tomb stone and cross. MS - Guard walking with his attack trained dog. High Angle shot - In West-Germany a truck is backed up to wall and in the bed of the truck there are 3 to 4 men. High Angle shot - They pull a ladder from the back of the truck and hang it over the wall and over the barbwire, the signal is given. High Angle shot - Man is climbing up one ladder, and on to the another ladder that is laid on top of the ladder that's on the other side of the wall, he makes it over the wall and falls on to the bed of the truck. MS - Guards running towards the ladder where the escape took place. High Angle shot - truck pulls away and the man is free. | |
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