Title:WELT IM FILM (SPECIAL REPORT) : hunger blockade [Main Title]
Film Number:WIF 404
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Summary: An English translation of a compilation put together in the third week of the Berlin blockade, much of its material having already appeared in WELT IM FILM's regular issues Nos 163-5.
Description: The film shows a. Power-cuts, enforced directly or indirectly by blockade, halt industry and transport; public-address system introduced (as power cuts also halt radios). b. Coal trains held up at Helmstedt by the Russians' "technical hitch". c. Airlift scenes: British Governor, General Robertson, at West Zone airfield; French help unload planes at Gatow; RAF using Sunderlands; USAF airlifting coal; returning planes carry mail: express service an unlooked-for advantage in blockade. d. Dr Suhr addresses West Berlin rally. e. Newspaper reports of West Zones' support, Hamburg taken as example: Franz Neumann speaks to people; Council under Schönfelder and Brauer vote support. f. Stock shot/newspaper montage implying London and Washington's stand against Moscow.
