Berlin Wall (1971)

Berlin, Germany Note: This is a compilation of what appears to be mostly Pathe Library footage, most likely found in better quality elsewhere. Some of the images are quite graphic. Initial quality poor LS pan right to left of barricades dividing East and West sectors of Berlin. MS guards patrolling Russian sector. CU man sending Morse code by flashlight and being received over the border by switching house lights on and off - this is how some people receive messages over the border. VS shots of stills of children separated by the wire, from their loved ones. VS guards patrolling the wall and plus more stills portraying the hardship of the wall. VS during the building of the wall look out towers, barbed wire, fencing. LS people escaping through the wire, guards help pull them through CU as they walk past camera. MS people watching television. MS people listening to wireless on a car radio. CU Khrushchev speech. VS the wall being built reinforced concrete slabs being put into place. LS of the wall. LS