Title:WELT IM FILM UNEDITED MATERIAL : Berlin blockade stories 5 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:WIF 455
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Summary: Unedited film of various 'stories' covered by cameramen for WELT IM FILM.
Description: a. Miscellaneous material from the early days of the Berlin blockade (much of it used in WIF 403 and 411). Close ups of windsock, RAF ensign, US flag; US guard at American Military Government HQ; US Under-Secretary for War, W H Draper, with British and US officers, watching fancy arms drill by a US honour guard; arrival of an unidentified visitor at an airfield; unloading coal from a barge; scenes at airfield control tower, civilians watch aircraft landings, crates are unloaded from aircraft. b. Berlin's Mayor Frau Schroeder flies Berlin-Hamburg-Berlin by BEA Viking. In various sequences (whose chronological order is completely lost) she is seen leaving 2 different planes, met once by airport officials (Berlin?) and once by Hamburg's Mayor Brauer, also entering and leaving car, building etc; a close-up of a hand writing her ticket. Film also includes much material on ordinary passengers; groundcrew servicing plane; baggage handling; BEA advertisements; plane takeoff; clouds etc.
