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Scenes of Christmas in Germany, 1956
Title "Germany" superimposed over shot of exterior church at night / two shots of choir of children inside church singing "Silent Night" / CU man listening / CU woman listening / CU man listening / children singing / CU hands holding...
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World's largest excavator is put to work in West Germany
Title: "Giant Size Bite - World's Biggest Excavator" superimposed over excavator at work / PAN excavator / CU excavator taking chunk out of mountain, camera pans up / PAN along conveyor section of excavator, train being loaded with earth...
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President Harry Truman signs Bonn peace pact with West Germany
Title Card: "In Kansas City - Truman Signs Bonn Pact" / Kansas City, MO: cameraman– at left photographing President Harry S. Truman about to sign the New German Republic Treaty (Bonn Peace Contract with the West German Republic and a...
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Sword and apple vaudeville act
Title card, "Swordsman Cuts Eve's Apple" / A woman is seated by a man in a futuristic costume, he lays her head back; his partner, holding a sword, is throwing an apple up and down and then hands the items to his partner; he throws the...
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Hungry East Germans marching into West Berlin to get free food parcels from US
Title card: "Food seekers continue march into West Berlin" / two shots of people walking along street / people getting off train at train station / VS people at night waiting / two shots of men taking boxes of food away from stack of...
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US High Commissioner Conant watches anti-aircraft demonstration at NATO base in Germany, US Marine Corps maneuvers in Quantico, VA
Title: "Firepower - NATO Force And Marines Show Strength" superimposed over U.S. Anti-aircraft guns firing / Todendorf, Germany: VS Dr. James Bryant Conant, U.S. High Commissioner in Germany, being greeted by U.S. anti-aircraft battery...
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Germany's oldest woman, Luise Rissmann, takes her first airplane ride on her 106th birthday, 1955
Title card: "Germany -- At 106, She Takes First Plane Ride" / VS 106 year old Luise Rissmann in her grandson's cigar store / CU Rissmann lights cigarette for customer / high angle person hands Rissmann birthday cards / high angle...
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Memorial service for victims of the East Berlin demonstrations
Title card: "West Berlin - Tribute to Victims of Anti-Red Riots" / A clock tower with a flag at half staff / Vertical mourning flags in the breeze with an ornate tower beyond; the Civil flag of Berlin with a // Several flag draped...
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Blessing the Animals day in Hereford, England and Day of the Beast in Hamburg, Germany, October 1955
Title card: "Big Day in the Animal World" / VS parade of people, mostly women and children, walk with their pets in Hereford, England at Blessing of the Animals / CU goat / MS boy holding duck, girl holding cat next to him / girl holding...
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Soviet soldiers march into British sector of Berlin to lay wreaths at War Memorial
Title "Berlin - British Sector Sees Red on Army Day" superimposed over marching Soviet soldiers / Soviet soldiers and communist delegates marching, Brandenburg Gate and buildings in bg / soldiers marching; pan down to their feet /...
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Felix Endrich and Fritz Stockli win the 1953 FIBT world bobsled championship in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Paramount Issue logo with mountain and stars / Title card: "Swiss Team Wins World Bobsled Title" over black then superimposed over bobsledders at top of track / VS at the FBIT (Federation international de bobsleigh et de tobogganing)...
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Melee in West Berlin between Communist youths from East Berlin and West Berlin policemen
Title "West Berlin, Reds battle police at army reunion" superimposed over Communist youths beginning to gather / pan across crowd of Communist youths moving forward to disrupt reunion of members of British tank division from World War...
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Very large crochet hook
Title card: "Anyone for Crocheting? Have a 12-ft Needle!" / street scene with women walking toward camera / large crochet hook coming out of doorway / Elsa Gruenfeld walking with 12ft crochet hook with yarn on it / Greenfield wearing...
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In harbor at Kiel, Germany, Soviet Union returns military ships it received during World War II from US Lend-Lease program
Title "Kiel, Germany - Soviet returns Lend-Lease ships" superimposed over row of returned warships lined up at dock / ships sailing in harbor, ship being returned sailing in background / closer shot of ship being returned sailing along /...
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West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer visits President Dwight Eisenhower at the White House in Washington, DC
Title "Eisenhower White House host - Visits by prominent foreigners continue" superimposed over shot of exterior of White House / closer shot of exterior of White House / West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer getting out of car /...
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Armed Forces Day in Washington, New York, and Berlin
Title card: "The Nation Salutes" / hundreds of uniformed, helmeted men, both white and Black, march forward in formation / intertitle: "Armed Forces Day" / VS more soldiers in Washington DC with the US Capitol dome in the distance /...
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Ridgway greeted by Eisenhower with Pleven and Gruenther; NATO leaders sign European Defense Pact; Berlin scenes from 1948
Title card: "Report From Berlin-Paris-Europe's Days of Firmness and Challenge" / arrival of Gen. Matthew Ridgway, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, followed by group, line of soldiers on side, people behind barricades on other side,...
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SYND 25 6 76 VORSTER MEETS SCHMIDT
A meeting between South African Prime Minister Balthazar Vorster and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.
1. ws exterior chancellory
2. ms Vorster arrives and is greeted by Schmidt and both then pose for press
Film: Rev - Sound: Mute -...
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SYND 21 5 73 BREZHNEV MEETS GERMAN LEADERS
Leonid Brezhnev meets West German leaders
1 exterior castle
2 Leonid Brezhnev arrives out of car and greeted
3 Brezhnev and party into castle
4 gv castle
5 smiling Brezhnev by car surrounded by press
6 motorcade with outriders away
7...
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SYND 5/9/70 ABOUT A THOUSAND YOUTHS DEMONSTRATE IN BONN AGAINST THE VISIT OF PRESIDENT SUHARTO
People take tot he streets fo Bonn to protest at the visit of President Suharto of Indonesia to West Germany.
1. VS of marchers carrying banners
2. MS of marchers handing out leaflets
3. VS of an exhibit of anti-Suharto photos showing...
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UPITN 31 10 74 NATO ARMY EXERCISE IN WEST GERMANY
NATO army exercise in West Germany.
1. various of tanks through village
2. various of tanks across field
3. ms three officers looking into a map spread across Jeep
4. ms man into tank
5. ms tank moving forward
6. various of helicopter...
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CAN972 BONN MOURNS FOR ADENAUER
The public and officials alike mourn and pay respects to Dr Konrad Adenauer, First Chancellor of West Germany, who died on 19 April 1967. He lay-in-state in the Cabinet Meeting Hall of the Chancellery where thousands came to pay their...
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SYND 22/06/1970 ROMANIAN PRIME MINISTER ION GHEORGHE MAURER VISITS WEST GERMANY
West German Chancellor Herr Willy Brandt and the visiting Romanian Prime Minister Ion Gheorghe Maurer held their first round of talks in Bonn, centering on trade and the international situation
1) ms Premier Maurer off plane greeted by...
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SYND 15 9 74 FOREIGN MINISTER GENSCHER MEETS GROMYKO FOR TALKS
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko holds talks with West Germany's Foreign MInister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, in Bonn
1. ws Foreign Minister's residence
2. ms Genscher and Gromyko seated
3. cu Gromyko
4. mcu Genscher and other, zoom...