Other titles:ECA NEWSREEL STORIES [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Unedited footage of street disturbances in East Berlin on 17 June 1953. Shots include barricades manned by police (with tanks in background); protesters raising a flag (on top of the Brandenburg Gate?). Crowds at the edge of the US Sector, scuffles and arrests, fire burning in background. Further shots of crowd, some members wielding sticks; banners being smashed and barriers being pulled down; Zentnerstrasse; troops lining up in Soviet Sector (picture of Stalin in the distance); crowds on the Potsdamerplatz, standing off against the troops; burning vehicles; crowds fleeing, some on bicycles. Troops advance with tanks. More scenes of defiant crowds; clothing is thrown from the window of an office/apartment. Brandenburg Gate: flag being lowered; crowd mills around below. Troops line up; there are scuffles. More scenes of crowds and burning; the crowd is now swamping the edge of the American Sector.
Description:
Alternative Title:ECA NEWSREEL STORIES [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:Yes
Object_Number:NAT 4908
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM NATO
Featured Period:
Production Date:1953-06-17
Production Country: ECA
Production Details: Economic Cooperation Administration (Sponsor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:Stalin, Josef (person)
