| Inauguration of Radio Free Europe | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1782 |
| Catalog #: | 501244 | |
| Clip Number: | 501244-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | HFR-SFL-35-100 | |
| Timecode: | 01:43:26 - 01:44:14 | |
| Location: | Munich, Germany | |
| Year Shot: | 1950 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT/RADIO: Production ENTERTAINMENT/RADIO: Technology LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Germany, Munich WAR & CONFLICT/COLD WAR: Propaganda | |
| Description: | Master 1782 - Tape 1 Over the shoulder MS/MCUs two white men wearing business suits working in radio station transmitter room of Radio Free Europe (RFE) in Holzkirchen, near Munich, Germany. LS Radio Free Europe building in Holzkirchen; coked-angle TLS transmitter tower (radio antenna). Over the shoulder MS white man working with radio transmission equipment in radio station (turning dials & knobs). Great CU "On Air" sign flashing on against black BG. Rear view LS/MSs white man working at large radio transmission console, making notes in notebook. CU frequency meter, tilt down to kilovolt meter. Great MSs white man placing needle on vinyl record on phonograph (record player) in RFE radio station. MCU several amp meters, needles bouncing left & right. VO: "All-out war, war for man's mind. War on the propaganda front. In Munich, May Day seized the inauguration of Radio Free Europe, a new beam to pierce the Iron Curtain from a 135,000 watt transmitter... casting facts around the world, telling the truth in 28 different languages. Around the clock programming..." | |


