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Activities in Tegel, Gatow, and Tempelhof airfields during the Berlin Blockade of the Cold War.

Daily life for the people of Berlin during the Berlin Blockade. People listen to the radio at a street corner. People buy newspapers at a stand. Man reads the paper. German newspaper headline states that the Berlin problem has been put before the UN. Interiors of a food store, a lady clerk takes contents out of can and weighs it. People coming out of bakery, one woman carrying bread. U.S. planes fly over Berlin during Berlin Airlift operations. Route taken shown over a globe diagram. Men work on a new airfield at Tegel. Workers leveling concrete runway during the construction of Berlin Tegel Airport. Trucks and construction equipment. Coal being loaded into a barge at Gatow. Large drums of coal and equipment. A Short Sunderland flying boat taking off. American planes landing at Berlin Tempelhof airfield. People in truck as it moves towards the plane. People watch planes fly overhead.

Date: 1948
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675020799
The Berlin Airlift

Scenes from the Berlin Airlift. Views of transportation facilities shut down by the Soviets in June 1948. Glimpse of the city of Berlin, followed by views of empty railroad lines; barges idled in a canal; parked and silent trolley cars. Next, a U.S. Air Force Douglas C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft (military version of DC-4) is seen landing in Templehof aerodrome in Berlin. German children stand on a hill watching and waving at another C-54 on final approach to Templehof. A C-54 flying close to buildings on its final approach to the airport, followed by another landing near a line of trucks filled with goods brought in by the airlift. A military truck unloading supplies from C-54, tail number 42-72548, as another C-54 taxis up close behind it. Several C-54 airlift planes taxiing in a line on the Templehof ramp.

Date: 1948
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021074
Repatriation funeral and burial of German flying ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron).

German funeral and reburial of German flying ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, seven years after his death. (His body had been originally buried in France, first in Bertangles and later in Fricourt). German soldiers march led by a band. The horse-drawn coffin escorted to the Invalidenfriedhof Cemetery in Berlin. Dignitaries walking during the procession. Honor Guard fires gun salute. Clergy and honored guests performing graveside ceremony. General Paul von Hindenburg is seen along with many Pour le Mérite aces (also known as the Blue Max or Blauer Max), including Bäumer, Loerzer, Boenick, Bolle, and others carrying Richthofen's coffin. Also seen at 1:44 is Manfred von Richthofen's mother, Kunigunde Freifrau von Richthofen walking beside her youngest son (Manfred's youngest brother) Bolko von Richthofen (Karl Bolko Freiherr von Richthofen). Bolko had recovered the body from Fricourt and repatriated the remains.

Date: 1925, December 8
Duration: 5 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675022369
Increase in egg production in Berlin.

Scenes of local poultry farm at Berlin. Machines for grading, weighing and crafting eggs are synchronized to speed up incubation and hatching. Production carried on 24 hours on scientific basis. 23 March 1931.

Date: 1931, March 23
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023633
Children present flowers to Paul Von Hindenburg on his 83rd birthday in Dietramszell, Bavaria

Paul Von Hindenburg on his 83rd birthday arrives with other people. Children with flowers wait for him. Children present flowers to him, one by one. He shakes hands with the boys and meets the children.

Date: 1930, October 23
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023939
Fritz von Opel's rocket-powered car OPEL RAK 2 sets speed record in 1928 at famous AVUS race track in Berlin

Before the eyes of 3000 invited guests, the Opel RAK 2, Fritz von Opel's rocket car, set a speed record in 1928 at Berlin's AVUS race track. The Opel RAK 2 managed a top speed of 238 km/h with the help of 24 solid-fuel rockets packed with 120 kilograms of fuel. Fritz von Opel chose the high-speed AVUS track in Berlin because the company's racetrack was not engineered for speeds over 140 km/h. Men fix rocket boosters on the car. The car moves at a high speed. It releases large amount of smoke as it moves. Crowd watches the car. Photographers take pictures.

Date: 1928, May 23
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675024376