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GLORIOUS BEER!
Called the ""October Festival"", but it's so popular with the people of Munich that it starts in September! And when the Lord Mayor taps the first barrel, the Festival's on. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any...
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MUNICH OCTOBERFEST
For sixteen days in early autumn, the beer barrels of Bavaria burst upon a thirsty world. Munich's fantastic Octoberfest is generally recognised as the greatest Folk Festival in the world - and also one of the biggest booze-ups! But...
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""EAST"" REFUGEES -
In spite of the fact that the Russians have recently made it harder to cross the East Berlin Zonal borders, refugees fleeing from East to West are steadily increasing. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views...
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INVASION OF CROWS - B/W
Berlin became the resting place for tens of thousands of crows, escaping the paralysing cold of the Russian plains. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata...
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WOMEN'S FOOTBALL
At Spa Neuenahr in Germany, the girls prove that football's not just a man's game. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced...
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GERMANY'S INDUSTRIAL RUINS -
RAF films show the damage that Allied bombing has done to such places as Hanover, Duisburg etc. The Krupps armament factory at Essen now lies in ruins. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions...
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CAN410 WEST GERMAN AND AMERICAN TROOPS MILITARY EXERCISE NEAR SCHWEINFURT, BAVARIA
West German and American troops military exercise near Schweinfurt, Bavaria.
1. cu sign reading "Brigade Gefechtsstand"
2. gv troops and vehicles on muddy road outside a building
3. cu military police sign on shoulder, tilt up to man's...
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CAN689 LANDSLIDE CAUSES DAMAGE TO HOUSES IN WEST GERMANY
Landslide causes damage to the village of Korprich, in West Germany.
**Also listed at z062385, UPI02957
1. ms village sign: Korprich
2. ls village street, police on duty at barriers
3. ms damaged houses, pan across debris in street
4....
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CAN849 PRESIDENT LUEBKE VISITS A MANUFACTURING / INDUSTRIAL PLANT IN PORTZ
President of West Germany (FRG) Heinrich Luebke (Lubke) visits a manufacturing plant in Portz (?), West Germany.
Date is approximate.
Film unidentified - information may be incomplete or inaccurate.
1. elevated ws interior turbine...
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CAN506 LATEST TEN PIN BOWLING COMES TO GERMANY
The Brunswick Bowling and Billiard Company bring the very latest in ten pin bowling technology to a bowling alley in Frankfurt West Germany.
1. vs man demonstrating bowling, footwork, bowling shoes and rolling the ball
2. vs two men...
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1 1 68 SKI JUMPING AT OBERSTADORF
Ski jumping at Oberstadorf, West Germany
1. wide of ski jump
2. various shots ski jumpers making jumps
3. cutaway to nuns watching
4. various shots ski jumpers making jumps
5. cutaway to spectators
6. cu #65 after jump
7. spectators
8....
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CAN708 SKIING COMPETITION GERMAN BOWL
Skiing competition - The German Bowl - held In Federal Republic of Germany
1. cu banner above skiiers: Star
2. vs skiiers starting off, numbers on back
3. vs skiier walking by trees Number 27
4. vs skiiers on slopes and near forrest
5....
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CAN931 MUNICH CITIZEN FIRES DUMPLINGS FROM CATAPULT AT NOISY LOW FLYING AIRCRAFT
Munich citizen Helmut Winter, seeking peace and quiet constructs catapult to fire at low flying aircraft.
1. cu newspaper story (German)
2. cu advertisement in paper
3. ws exterior home of Winter
4. ws aircraft flying overhead
5. ms...
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CAN708 SKIING COMPETITION
++Date is Approximate++
Skiers in competition in southern Germany.
1. ws skier Number 1 starts
2. vs skier Number 1 on course and slopes
3. ws people in viewing box
4. cu man in glasses looks on
5. ms skier Number 1 speaks
6. ms skier...
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CAN873 STUDENTS FORM WHITE ROSE ORGANISATION AGAINST NEO-NAZIS
West German students demonstrate against the successes of the Neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) in the Bavarian elections. Reports on the organisation 'White Rose,' which sets out to defy the neo-Nazis.
1. vs newspaper reports on...
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SYND 1 8 68 FUNERAL OF FATHER OF THE ATOM BOMB
The German father of the atom bomb, Otto Hahn, has been buried at Goettingen. The funeral service was attended by President Henirch Luebke of West Germany.
1. ms interior Nicolai church
2. mcu President Luebke at church
3. mcu Luebke...
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CAN609 CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT SOCIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY LEADERS MEET IN BONN
Christian Democrat and Social Democrat Party leadershold meetings after results of West German elections are made known
1. various shots, Christian Democrat party members arrive for conference
2. ms West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard...
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CAN870 TWO NAZI WAR CRIMINALS RELEASED FROM SPANDAU PRISON
Both Albert Speer, Hitler's chief architect and the Third Reich Minister of Armaments, and Baldur von Schirach, founder of the Hitler Youth and later Gauleiter of Vienna, are released from Spandau Prison after serving twenty year...
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German people in crowd, Berlin, 1951
VS people in crowd; little blond girl (pre-school age) intently looks at camera; blond woman; others looking a camera and clapping hands
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Popular uprising in Communist East Berlin
Man walks up to woman at counter of newsstand and buys newspaper from her / two shots of two men looking at newspaper / crowd standing on sidewalk in front of stores / single man walking along deserted train platform / three shots of US...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Six European countries sign the Treaty of Paris, establishing a European Defence Community
French statesman Robert Schuman, sitting at table with representatives of other countries, signs pact / West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer signs pact / Schuman signing pact / two shots of Schuman standing and reading pact / two shots...
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John Foster Dulles returns from London and the Nine Powers conference
Title: "Washington" superimposed over Secretary of State John Foster Dulles deplaning at airport returning home from London conference regarding West Germany and NATO / Dulles shakes hands with undersecretary of State Walter Bedell Smith...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Annual circus is presented in Germany by Sciplinis chimp family
Title Card: "When Simians Swing - It's Chimp-Phonic" / MS chimpanzee seated, one chimp runs to take seat, man holding legs of one chimp / MS chimps, one chimp wearing hat / CU chimp playing maracas / CU chimp playing drum / CU chimp...
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Soviet Union and West Germany agree to establish diplomatic relations during Moscow conference
Title "Adenauer Mission Ends - Bonn Debates Moscow Agreement" superimposed over officials at conference / pan facade of Spiridonovka Palace topped by hammer and sickle / pan conference table with General Secretary of Communist Party...