| Good Samaritan: US Food Arrives For East Berliners | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1588 |
| Catalog #: | 352765 | |
| Clip Number: | 352765-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 026-487-02 | |
| Timecode: | 00:40:13 - 00:41:19 | |
| Location: | Berlin, Germany | |
| Year Shot: | 1953 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CROWDS: Queue (Line), Food INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Foreign Aid, Food LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Germany, Berlin LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Germany, East WAR & CONFLICT/COLD WAR: Misc. | |
| Description: | Same as catalog # 514893 Over 200,000 east Germans defy red threats, and cross the iron curtain into west Berlin, as the first parcels of fifteen million dollars worth of US Food for the starving red satellite are handed out. Establishing shot - American freighter SS American Inventor docking in Hamburg. MCUS - Crain hauling up stacked boxes of food. MCUS - Throngs of people walking in the streets of Hamburg. MLS - People queue in line for food. Back shot - Throngs of people packed like sardines in the street. MS - Some German people laying on the grass because they fainted. | |
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