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SYND 14-8-69 EIGHT YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE BERLIN WALL
West Berlin observes eight anniversary of the East German wall in low key demonstration
1) various demonstrators march towards wall with burning torches, flags and banners
2) ms allied checkpoint booth
3) street sign: "Friedrichstrasse"...
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SYND 25-2-70 SOVIET MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, ANDREI GROMYKO, ARRIVES IN EAST BERLIN
Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs, Andrei Gromyko, arrives in East Berlin
1) plane taxis
2) ground crew man waves plane in
3) plane taxis
4) East german delegation across tarmac
5) Andrei Gromyko down plane steps and greeted by East...
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SYND 30-11-72 NEW CHECKPOINT ON EAST / WEST GERMAN BORDER
Preparations for a new border checkpoint between the Federal and Democratic Republics of Germany
1. border guard, pull back to construction work in distance
2. border guards, workman crimping wire fence s
3. border gurads, pan along...
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SYND 10-03-74 LEIPZIG ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SPRING FAIR FOR INDUSTRY
The 1974 Leipzig annual international Spring Fair for industry was officially opened today with exhibits from sixty countries
1. national flags flying
2. gv exhibition hall
3. large moving "car tyre" exhibit with snow chains, turning,...
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SYND 11/3/1973 HIGHLIGHTS OF TRADE FAIR
Highlights of trade fair
1 gv exterior of fair and flags, Wartburg car passes by
2 East German leaders Willi Stoph and Erich Honecker arrive
3 agricultural machinery demonstrated
4 Chinese building exteriors
5 interior, model dam
6...
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SYND 12 11 74 PRESIDENT TITO ARRIVES FOR A VISIT TO EAST GERMANY
President Josip Bros Tito of Yugoslavia arrives in East Berlin for a visit. The film also contains footage of the East German leader Erich Honecker.
1. ws presidential plane arrives with guard of honour in fg2. ws flags flying3. ws Tito...
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SYND 12-3-72 OPENING OF LEIPZIG SPRING FAIR
East German Prime Minister and First Secretary arrive for opening of annual Leipzig fair
1 gv Leipzig fair people walk through entrance
2 Willi Stoph and Erich Honecker and party walk through grounds
3 USSR pavillion
4 ms display of...
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LIB 21-2-72 AN ANTI-EAST GERMAN CONTRACT DEMONSTRATION
People take to the streets of Bonn to protest at the signing of a contract for closer relations with East Germany.
1. vs of people marching with burning torches and the police looking on
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CAN 102 US FIGHTER PILOTS WHO DIED IN EAST GERMAN AIR-SPACE HONOURED IN WEST
Honours have been given to three American airmen who died in jet fighter incident over East Germany. A USAF T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission was shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19. The occupants of the aircraft...
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SYND 6 3 69 WARSAW PACT MANOEVRES IN EAST GERMANY
Warsaw Pact tank unit maneuvers in East Germany.
1. various of tanks moving through snow
2. ms tanks across fields
3. various of amphibious vehicles along road
4. cu soldier holding up flag
5. various of tanks over makeshift...
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SYND 7 6 74 EAST GERMAN SOCCER TEAM TRAIN FOR WORLD CUP
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The East German soccer team train and practice for their forthcoming World Cup games in the old Olympic Stadium.
1. ws pan of Olympic Stadium, Berlin, team training
2. ws...
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SYND 17 7 67 EAST GERMAN MOTORCYCLE GRAND PRIX
East German motorcycle Grand PrIx held at Sachsenring
1. gv bikes away at start of race
2. long top shot, bikes along track
3. various shots, race in progress
4. winning bike crosses finish line
5. cutaway to spectators
6. winner...
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SYND 2-3-69 WALTER ULBRICHT ATTENDS INTERNATIONAL FAIR
Walter Ulbricht attends Leipzig international fair, as Soviet East German troop manoeuvres continue to harass Berlin border routes.
1 gv exterior fair
2 ms Walter Ulbricht's party enters, Ulbricht waves
3 gv int Mexico stand
4 ms...
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SYND 1 7 73 SYND 22 3 73 WALTER ULBRICHT BIRTHDAY
East German General Secretary Walter Ulbright celebrates his 80th birthday in a glare of publicity and honours from Communist leaders
1 officials reading to East German General Secretary Walter Ulbright
2 cu's Ulbright
3 ministers and...
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SYND 22 2 79 EAST GERMAN LEADER HONECKER MEETS JOSHUA NKOMO
East German Leader Erich Honecker visiting Zambia and meeting Rhodesian guerrilla leader Joshua Nkomo. They watch tribal singing & dancing, then Nkomo answers newsmen's questions about supplies from East Germany.
ms East German...
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UPITN 27 1 79 SOCIALIST PARTY LEADER HONECKER MEETS NEW CUBAN AMBASSADOR
Erich Honecker, leader of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) meets with the new Cuban Ambassador. Willi Stoph, Prime Minister of East Germany, meets with the Cuban ambassador also.
1. ws car drives along snowy road, pan to...
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Germany - Mielke Murder Trial
Erich Mielke, former chief of East Germany's Stasi secret police,
went on trial in Berlin on Monday (5/9) on murder charges linked
to the shooting of East Germans who tried to escape over the
Berlin Wall to a better life in the West. The...
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SYND 6 10 69 COMMUNIST LEADERS ATTEND EAST GERMANY'S 20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS
Communist leaders attend East Germany's 20th anniversary celebrations
1) interior Seelenbinder Hall, ms Soviet Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev, East German Chief Of State, Walter Ulbricht, and others onto platform
2) gv people...
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SYND 24 8 80 WARSAW PACT COUNTRIES MILITARY EXCERCISE
Warsaw Pact countries begin preparations for military manouevres in East Germany, scheduled to run paralled to NATO exercises starting in September '80
1. gv military trucks on railway flatbeds, pull back to troops move ramps to...
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CAN322 SOVIET TROOPS ASSIST WITH EAST GERMAN POTATO HARVEST
Soviet troops assist with East German potato harvest
1. ms Soviet troops arrive in potato field on the back of open top truck
2. soldiers dismount from trucks
3. crates of beer unloaded from trucks
4. troops with baskets in field
5....
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SYND 15-10-69 NEW BERLIN CHECKPOINT
New checkpoint into East Germany is under construction
1 ms autobahn and bridge with writing "you are now leaving the american sector"
2 various ms East German troops on armored car at checkpoint
3 cu East German guard
4 gv autobahn...
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SYND 5 9 74 DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN USA AND EAST GERMANY ESTABLISHED
East German Minister Herbert Suess and the US Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Arthur Hartmann, signing documents to establish diplomatic relations after twenty five years.
1. ms Suess and Hartmann enter room and sit at...
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LIB 10-3-72 EAST WEST TALKS ON TRAFFIC AGREEMENT
East West talks on traffic agreement
1 arrival of delegations
2 East German Ministry sign
3 press outside building
4 pan and gv of ministry building
5 pan across to TV tower
6 film cameramen at work
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SYND 20 6 67 EAST GERMAN RIDER WINS 500CC MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP
East Germany's Paul Friedrichs wins the world 500cc motocross championships in Czechoslovakia.
1. ms start of race
2. various top shots, bikes up hill
3. ms bikes over hill
4. ms Petr Dobry (no.7) Czech rider
5. ms Paul Friedrichs...