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CAN737 CHAMPION ICE SKATER ARRIVES TO WEST BERLIN AFTER DEFECTING FROM EAST GERMANY
German ice skater Ralph Borghard arriving to West Berlin's Tempelhof airport after defecting from East Germany to the West.
1. gv plane taxiing in
2. ms Tempelhof sign on plane stairs
3. various of defecting skater and party walking out...
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CAN927 THOMAS KOEHLER OF EAST GERMANY WINS TOBOGGANING CHAMPIONSHIPS
An East German wins world tobogganing championships. Thomas Koehler of East Germany, Harold Elder of the USA, Hans Plenk of West Germany and East Germany's Hans Bonsack compete.
1. cu poster reading Rodel (luge)
2. vs Koehler waxing...
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CAN447 COMMANDER OF SOVIET FORCES IN EAST GERMANY MAKES PILGRIMAGE TO RED ARMY MEMORIAL
Pyotr Koshevoy Commander of the Soviet forces in East Germany, makes pilgrimage to Red Army memorial.
1. vs soldiers marching across snowy parade ground
2. ms tank on Soviet war memorial
3. ms Red soldier statue
4. ls soldiers marching...
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CAN805 NORDEN GIVES SPEECH AT EAST GERMAN CONFERENCE
The Head of the Agitation Committee of the Politburo Albert Norden announces that a debate with West German socialists will not take after all, with it being cancelled at the last moment.
1. ms conference members take seats
2. ms Norden...
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CAN925 RUSSIAN MAMATOV WINS THE 20KM BIATHLON AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN ALTENBURG
Victor Mamatov of Soviet Union wins the 20km biathlon at the world skiing biathlon championship in Altenburg, East Germany.
1. gv flags on poles wipe into cu map of 20km biathlon course
2. various of skiers starting biathlon race and...
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CAN471 KOSYGIN VISITS TRADE FAIR
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin visits the Leipzig industrial fair.
1. vs of people on the city streets and bunting and streamers hanging from buildings
2. vs of a traffic policeman directing busy traffic
3. vs of the exterior of buildings...
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CAN401 HIRSCHBERG BRIDGE WORK
Reconstruction of border bridge on River Saale by East Germans. Possibly bombed by Germans or Americans to slow advancement of Soviet Army in 1945.
1. ms workmen operating cranes and loading truck
2. ms signboard on site detailing work...
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CAN846 RUSSIAN WINS WORLD BANTAMWEIGHT TITLE DURING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
The World Weightlifting Championships take place in East Germany. The Bantamweight title has been won by Aleksei Vakhonin of the Soviet Union. Also shown competeing is the Hungarian lifter Imre Foldi and the Iranian banterweight Mohammad...
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CAN531 BOXING CHAMPIONSHIPS 1965
European anature Boxing Championships open featuring one round knockout by Jerey Kulej of Poland fighting Kenneth Hawkins.
1. ws arena and crowds
2. vs country placards
3. ws arena and zoom in to ms opening, speech from ring
4. ms flags...
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CAN639 WARSAW PACT PRACTISES
Warsaw Pact military manoeuvres start practise in East Germany.
1. ws officials on balcony, pan down to officer pointing to places on large map
2. ms tanks an officers in combat
3. vs tanks crossing fields in fog
4. ws tanks practicing...
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CAN524 DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST US POLICY IN VIETNAM
Demonstrators protests against recent American policy in Santo Domingo and Vietnam.
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1. cu sign: United States Military Liason Mission to Soviet Forces in Germany
2. ws exterior building with parked car, pan to...
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SYND 15 7 68 AGOSTINI WINS EAST GERMAN MOTOR CYCLE GRAND PRIX
Scenes of the East German Motor Cycle Grand Prix, held at Sachsenring, Hohenstein-Ernstthal. The main grand Prix race was won by Italian champion Giacomo Agostini.
1. ms race starts
2. ws bikes round bend
3. ms bike at speed
4. ms...
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CAN491 TOPEN JUNCTION WITH EAST GERMANY
Scenes from the West-East German border crossing at Topen.
1. ms sign 'Topen'
2. vs of the road junction and border crossing
3. ms of the guards with dogs
4. mcu guard looking through binoculars
5. vs of a United States army Jeep...
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CAN636 ONE MAN PLANE LANDS IN EAST GERMANY
Small plane lands in East Germany.
1. ws and pan across
2. cu town sign Ratzeburg
3. ms exterior low hangar
4. ms interior single seat plane
5. cu letters on plane DM - SIK
6. cu German Democratic Republic sign of a hammer and...
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CAN606 WILLI STOPH ATTENDS LEIPZIG FAIR
East German Prime Minister (Chairman of the Council of Ministers) Willi Stoph attends the Leipzig Fair on its 800 year anniversary. New consumer products are shown.
1. ws Old Town Hall is Leipzig
2. ws a street scene with pedestrians...
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CAN150 US AIRMEN SHOT DOWN OVER EAST GERMANY, RELEASED
Two American airmen, Captain David Holland and Captain Melvin Kessler, held by the Russians since their reconnaissance plane was shot down over East Germany seventeen days ago, were freed today
1. ws Helmstedt checkpoint and crowd
2. cu...
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Nikita Khrushchev visits Berlin Wall for first tim
Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev makes his first visit to the Berlin Wall / Khrushchev filmed from the Western side among group also containing Walter Ulbricht, the East German leader. Nikita Khrushchev visits Berlin Wall for first tim...
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CU PAN Old wall paintings of German Democratic Republic at German ministry of finance and Leipziger Strasse street / Berlin, Germany
CU PAN Old wall paintings of German Democratic Republic at German ministry of finance and Leipziger Strasse street / Berlin, Germany
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WS PAN German ministry of finance and old wall paintings of German Democratic Republic at Leipziger Strasse street / Berlin, Germany
WS PAN German ministry of finance and old wall paintings of German Democratic Republic at Leipziger Strasse street / Berlin, Germany
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Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, early morning wide-angle shot
Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, early morning wide-angle shot
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CU Old wall paintings of German Democratic Republic at German ministry of finance and Leipziger Strasse street / Berlin, Germany
CU Old wall paintings of German Democratic Republic at German ministry of finance and Leipziger Strasse street / Berlin, Germany
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CU PAN Old wall paintings of German Democratic Republic at German ministry of finance and Leipziger Strasse street / Berlin, Germany
CU PAN Old wall paintings of German Democratic Republic at German ministry of finance and Leipziger Strasse street / Berlin, Germany