Title:WELT IM FILM (SPECIAL REPORT) : the Berlin situation [Main Title]
Film Number:WIF 411
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Summary: An English translation of a WELT IM FILM report, including two items repeated from the regular newsreel Issue No. 171.
Description: The can also contains some unedited footage of the airlift. a. Examples of fund raising campaigns demonstrating solidarity of West Zones with Berlin: circus in Essen, rally in Stuttgart (addressed by Berlin's Ernst Reuter), concert in Munich. b. A report on progress of airfield construction at Tegel. c. The consequences of a shooting by East Sector police over undefined sector borders in Potsdamer Platz: British commandant Herbert checks up on borders, new marks painted on road; US commandant Howley visits scene, US and Russian officers confer. (Unedited film: arrivals of civilians by BEA Viking; unloading airlifted flour and coal; bread-baking).
