- Title: VM-1148
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:00:01:57 - "MEDAL OF HONOR" ACTOR ALEXANDER SCOURBY HOSTS & NARRATES THIS DOCUMENTARY OF THE NATION'S HIGHEST HONOR, THE MCONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR AWARDED FOR HEROISM ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY. 00:02:02 - MONTAGE- QUICK ZOOM IN SCENES OF SOLDIERS FIGHTING IN CIVIL WAR, WWI WWII AND OTHER BATTLES 00:02:20 - MS- SILHOUETTE OF GI PLAYING TAPS ON HIS BUGLE. WHICH TURNS INTO A PHOTO ON A WALL IN A LONG CORRIDOR WITH MANY PHOTOS ON EACH SIDE 00:02:52 - LS- MEDALS BECOME SUPERIMPOSED ON THE SCREEN STARTING WITH THE PURPLE HEART TO MANY OTHERS AND STOPPING WITH TWO VERSIONS OF THE MEDAL OF HONOR AS NARRATOR SCOURBY SPEAKS. 00:03:44 - TITLE: "MEDAL OF HONOR" 00:04:16 - MS- ALEXANDER SCOURBY STANDS BY A DISPLAY OF MEDALS IN A GLASS ENCLOSED CASE ON THE WALL AND SPEAKS OF NOBILITY OF MAN. 00:05:38 - MS- REENACTMENT; COLONIALISTS MARCH OFF TO WAR MONTAGE- DRAWINGS OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR SCENES. 00:06:44 - MONTAGE- REENACTMENT OF CIVIL WAR BATTLES. MS- A YOUNG SOLDIER IN DEEP THOUGHT AS HE WRITES LETTER HOME. 00:08:27 - LS- LONG LINE OF UNION SOLDIERS INCLUDING THE YOUNG SOLDIER STAND UP FROM THEIR TRENCHES AND MOVE FORWARD TO BATTLE. BOMBS BURSTING AROUND THEM 00:08:54 - AERIAL- UNION TROOPS MOVE FORWARD ON THE BATTLEFIELD AS THICK SMOKE FILLS THE AIR. SCOURBY NARRATES ABOUT THE MEDAL OF HONOR AS BATTLE RAGES 00:09:47 - MS- SCOURBY STOPS BY ANOTHER PHOTO ON THE WALL. CAMERA ZOOMS IN AND THE PHOTO COMES ALIVE WITH SCENE OF UNION CAVALRY ON THE FRONTIER 00:10:06 - MONTAGE- REENACTMENT OF INDIANS ATTACKING A FORT AND SETTLERS FIRING AT THEM FROM TOP OF STOCKADE. CAVALRY CHARGING TO THE RESCUE, A COVERED WAGON BEING OVERTURNED BY AN INDIAN 00:10:48 - MONTAGE- CUSTER, SURROUNDED BY THOUSANDS OF SIOUX. HAND TO HAND COMBAT WITH INDIAN AND SOLDIER. 00:11:22 - LS- SCOURBY APPROACHES ANOTHER PHOTO AND TALKS ABOUT THE SINKING OF THE BATTLESHIP "MAINE" IN HAVANA HARBOR. PHOTO OF A ROUGH RIDER BREAKING A BRONCO COMES ALIVE. 00:12:42 - REENACTMENT OF THE ROUGH RIDERS ATTACKING SAN JUAN HILL IN CUBA DURING THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. MS- ELATED ROUGH RIDER TAKES OFF HIS HAT AND TOSSES IT INTO THE AIR. 00:14:32 - MONTAGE- AMERICAN TROOPS FIGHT IN CHINA AS THOUSANDS OF FANATICAL CHINESE LAID SIEGE TO AMERICAN EMBASSY IN PEKING DURING THE BOXER REBELLION. WHICH PRODUCED A MEDAL OF HONOR WINNER. 00:15:46 - REENACTMENT OF U. S. CAVALRY CROSSING INTO MEXICO AFTER PONCHO VILLA. MONTAGE- MEXICANS IN A FORT BEHIND BARRICADES FIRE ON AN AMERICAN CAVALRY CHARGE, CAUSING MANY CASUALTIES. 00:16:48 - MONTAGE- MEXICANS AND AMERICANS IN HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT. 00:16:50 - LS- AMERICAN SOLDIER RIDES UP TO FORT GATES AND CLIMBS OVER. AS HAND GRENADE EXPLODES NEAR HIM. HE MANAGES TO OPEN GATES FOR THE ON-COMING CAVALRY. LS- MEXICAN FALLS OUT OF BELL TOWER AS HE IS SHOT 00:17:44 - MS- SCOURBY TELLS THAT ONLY ONE MAN RECEIVED THE MEDAL OF HONOR DURING THAT CAMPAIGN. 00:18:30 - PHOTO ON WALL OF TROOPS WALKING ALONG ROAD DURING WWI COMES ALIVE. BATTLEFIELD SCENES OF TROOPS CHARGING OUT OF TRENCHES INTO GERMAN MACHINE GUN FIRE. (REENACTMENT). MS- PRIMITIVE ARMY TANKS 00:19:07 - LS- DOUGHBOY CARRYING A WOUNDED BUDDY PIGGY-BACK. 00:19:28 - LS- DOG FIGHTS BETWEEN GERMAN AND ALLIED VINTAGE PLANES. 00:20:00 - LS- A TRUCK DODGES SHELLS AS IT ZIG ZAGS ON ROAD DURING WWII. IT IS FINALLY HIT BY HUGE EXPLOSION TURNING IT UPSIDE DOWN. REENACTMENT 00:20:15 - MS- JAPANESE SOLDIERS CHARGE THE CAMERA. ECU- FANATICAL JAPANESE SOLDIER YELLS, "BANZAI!" BEFORE HE IS SHOT DOWN BY A LONE AMERICAN WHO TURNS BACK THE OTHER JAPANESE. THUS REPRESENTING THE ACT OF MEDAL OF HONOR CANDIDATE. 00:20:47 - REENACTMENT OF GI HOLDING BACK CHARGING JAPANESE AT GUADALCANAL WITH HIS MACHINE GUN UNTIL HE IS KILLED. REENACTMENT OF GI CHARGING GERMAN MACHINE GUN NEST AND STRONGHOLD. BOTH RECEIVED THE "MEDAL" 00:22:15 - CU- SUB CAPTAIN PEERS THROUGH PERISCOPE. CU- TORPEDO SLIDING INTO TUBE AS SEEN COMING AT YOU LS- SHIP BLOWS UP, AS SEEN THROUGH PERISCOPE. 00:23:00 - LS- DEPTH CHARGE EXPLODES NEAR DIVING SUB. MEN INSIDE ARE ROCKED AND TOSSED ABOUT. THE CAPTAIN BRACE THEMSELVES AS CHARGE AFTER CHARGE EXPLODES. SUB WAS LOST. 00:23:59 - MONTAGE- REENACTMENT OF B-24 BOMBERS TAKING OFF FROM AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER DECK TO BOMB TOKYO DURING EARLY YEARS OF WWII. AERIAL- SCENE AFTER SCENE OF BOMBS EXPLODING AMID FACTORY BUILDINGS. 00:25:30 - LS- MACARTHUR WADES INTO SHORE FROM A LANDING CRAFT AS SCOURBY TELLS OF BRAVERY KNOWING NO RANK AS THE MEDAL OF HONOR WAS WON BY MEN OF ALL RANKS. 00:26:16 - REENACTMENT OF BATTLE SCENES IN THE SNOWY HILLS OF KOREA. GI RUNS FORWARD. KNEELS AND SHOOTS DOWN FANATICALLY CHARGING CHINESE. 00:27:30 - ACTOR ALEXANDER SCOURBY MAKES A CLOSING MONOLOGUE OF THE BRAVERY OF AMERICAN SOLDIER AND THE MEDAL OF HONOR AS THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC IS SUNG BY CHOIR. 00:31:01 - "THE AMERICAN SOLDIER" DOCUMENTARY TRACES THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN SOLDIER FROM IT'S BEGINNINGS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR TO THE PRESENT. AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY. HISTORICAL RECREATIONS-REENACTMENT 00:31:06 - LS- WASHINGTON MEMORIAL, LINCOLN MEMORIAL, GRANT'S TOMB AND OTHER MEMORIALS IN WASHINGTON, D. C. 00:31:59 - MS- TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER OF WWI & II FLOOR PLAQUE S MEMORIALIZING UNKNOWN SOLDIERS OF WWII AND KOREA AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY 00:32:32 - MONTAGE- STATUES OF SOLDIERS OF ALL THE WARS ARE SEEN IN VILLAGE SQUARES AND PUBLIC GROUNDS. 00:33:22 - MONTAGE- REENACTED SCENES OF "MINUTEMEN" FIGHTING BRITISH AND FIRING. "SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD" 00:34:05 - LS-RAG-TAG MINUTEMEN, YOUNG AND OLD MARCH DOWN A FARM ROAD AS THE AMERICAN ARMY IS BORN. 00:34:26 - LS- GENERAL WASHINGTON AND HIS OFFICERS, ON HORSES LOOKING DOWN FROM A HILL IS SILHOUETTED BY THE SUN MS- A DRUMMER BOY BEATS THE DRUM FROM A HILLTOP. 00:34:44 - MS- REENACTMENT OF MEETING OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS. CU- DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE DOCUMENT 00:35:08 - LS- BRITISH SOLDIERS FIRE ON ADVANCING COLONIALS KILLING MANY AS FIRE FIGHT BREAKS OUT. 00:35:18 - REENACTMENT OF WASHINGTON CROSSING DELAWARE WITH SNOW FALLING. COLONIAL TROOPS MARCHING DOWN A SNOW COVERED ROAD DURING BLIZZARD. 00:35:47 - MS- RINGING BELLS AND REJOICING COLONIALISTS AS WAR ENDS. MS- 13 STAR FLAG IS RAISED OVER A FORT. CU- CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS DOCUMENTS. 00:36:48 - MS- BRITISH LINE OF SOLDIERS FIRING AT AMERICAN TROOP POSITIONS IN THE WAR OF 1812.AMERICANS CHARGE AND DRIVE THE BRITISH BACK TO THE SEA IN THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS. 00:37:19 - LS- BRITISH FRIGATE TAKING HITS FROM A DEFENDING FORT MCHENRY WHERE FRANCIS SCOTT KEY WAS MOVED TO MAKE HIS TRIBUTE WITH, "THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER". 00:37:48 - NS- 15 STAR FLAG FLYING OVER FORT MCHENRY. 00:38:00 - MONTAGE- TEXANS' ON WALL OF THE ALAMO DEFENDING AGAINST ATTACK FROM MEXICAN ARMY. REENACTMENT 00:38:50 - LS- FARMERS PLOWING FIELD. MS- FAMILY OF SETTLERS RIDE IN OXEN DRIVEN COVERED WAGONS INTO AREA BEING BUILT AS A SETTLEMENT. 00:39:12 - MONTAGE- REENACTMENT OF CIVIL WAR BATTLES. MS- MARCHING UNION AND CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS. 00:39:34 - LS- REBEL CAVALRY GALLOP OVER A WOODEN BRIDGE. MS- CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS CHARGE WITH THEIR RIFLES IN HAND AND PULLING THEIR CANNONS AS THEY RUN AFTER RETREATING UNION SOLDIERS. 00:40:33 - LS- UNION FORCES FACE REBEL FORCES AND FIRE FROM BEHIND BARRICADES MANY FROM EACH SIDE FALL DEAD. 00:41:27 - LS- SMOKE FILLS THE AIR AS UNION BATTERIES POUND REBEL FORCES MS- FIELD LITTERED WITH BODIES AFTER SMOKE CLEARS. MONTAGE- OTHER FIERCE BATTLE SCENES 00:42:54 - LS- BUSY WESTERN TOWN BUSTLING BEYOND MISSISSIPPI WITH HORSES, WAGONS AND PEOPLE. LS- WAGON TRAIN ON THE OPEN PLAINS. LS- 20 MULE TEAM PULLS A WAGON 00:43:12 - MS- INDIAN ON HORSE LOOKS DOWN ON THE WAGONS FROM MOUNTAIN TOP. LS- HUNDREDS OF INDIANS RIDE TO THE ATTACK. LS- MOTHER RUNS OUT TO PICK UP HER BABY SITTING ON GROUND IN FRONT OF BURNING HOME. 00:44:11 - LS- CAVALRY CHASING INDIANS. MONTAGE- HAND TO HAND COMBAT BETWEEN INDIAN AND SOLDIER. -REENACTMENT 00:45:38 - LS- AMERICAN SOLDIERS PULL IN THEIR LONG BOATS LADEN WITH SUPPLIES, AS THEY LAND ON THE SHORE OF CUBA. (OLD FILM FOOTAGE) 00:46:13 - MS- IN REENACTMENT, TEDDY ROOSEVELT WAVES ON HIS MEN IN A CHARGE UP SAN JUAN HILL. MONTAGE- FIERCE BATTLE SCENES 00:47:07 - LS- MULES LADEN WITH SUPPLIES AND AMERICAN SOLDIERS CROSS INTO THE BARREN DESERT OF MEXICO IN PURSUIT OF PANCHO VILLA. 00:47:33 - CU- LARGE NEWSPAPER HEADLINE: "WAR" ANNOUNCING WWI REENACTMENT AND FILM FOOTAGE OF DOUGHBOYS ON THE MARCH IN FRANCE AND TRENCH WARFARE. 00:49:18 - HEADLINES: "WAR ENDS". PEOPLE CELEBRATING IN THE STREETS WAVING U. S. FLAGS 00:50:06 - LS- HITLER SPEAKING IN HUGE ARENA TO A MILLION GERMANS FROM ATOP ROOF ALL YELLING , "HEIL!". 00:50:36 - MONTAGE- NAZI SOLDIERS ON THE MARCH. 00:51:00 - MONTAGE- U. S. SOLDIERS IN TRAINING. USING WOODEN GUNS AND BEER CANS FOR SHELLS. 00:51:27 - LS- ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR FILM. MONTAGE- SOLDIERS PASSIONATELY KISSING THEIR LOVED ONES GOODBYE. 00:52:18 - MONTAGE- WWII BATTLE SCENES IN JUNGLES AND IN EUROPE. (PREVIOUSLY LOGGED) 00:54:20 - MONTAGE- BELLS RINGING, TREMENDOUS CROWDS IN STREETS, GIS KISSING GIRLS, AS WAR ENDS. CROWDS WAIT AT PIERS AS SHIPS BRING THE GIS HOME. 00:54:59 - LS- GI CLIMBS BARRICADE TO EMBRACE AND KISS MOM. WITH THESE SCENES REPEATING EACH OTHER ELSEWHERE 00:55:41 - MONTAGE- BATTLE SCENES OF THE KOREAN WAR. 00:59:25 - "NATO, BACKGROUND TO BERLIN" BERLIN IS SHOWN BEFORE WWII IT'S UTTER DESTRUCTION DURING THE WAR AND IT'S OCCUPATION AND DIVISION INTO EAST AND WEST SECTORS DIVIDED BY THE INFAMOUS WALL, CAUSING TENSIONS WHICH LED TO THE FORMATION OF NATO. 00:59:30 - MONTAGE- CITY SCENES OF BERLIN BEFORE HITLER SHOWS A BUSTLING METROPOLIS WITH HEAVY AUTO AND BUS TRAFFIC AND DEPARTMENT STORES, RANKING WITH LONDON PARIS AND NEW YORK. (PAN) 00:59:51 - LS- OUTSIDE CAFES' CROWDED WITH CUSTOMERS. MS- A GERMAN POLICEMAN WALKS SCHOOL CHILDREN ACROSS A BUSY THOROUGHFARE. 01:00:00 - LS- AN EXPLOSION DEMOLISHES AN UNSAFE BOMBED OUT BUILDING AFTER WWII. LS- PAN OF THE COMPLETELY DESTROYED BERLIN REDUCED TO RUBBLE. 01:00:55 - MS- MAP SHOWING THE ZONES OF OCCUPATION DIVIDING GERMANY 01:01:08 - MS- PRESIDENT TRUMAN, STALIN AND CHURCHILL MEET AT POTSDAM TO DECIDE THE FUTURE OF GERMANY 01:02:05 - MONTAGE- MILITARY OF OCCUPYING NATIONS MEET AT REGULAR BASIS ON HOW TO ADMINISTER BERLIN WHICH WAS ALSO DIVIDED INTO SECTORS. 01:02:11 - MS- RUSSIAN FEMALE SOLDIER WITH, RIFLE STRAPPED TO HER SHOULDER USES FLAGS TO DIRECT TRAFFIC IN MIDDLE OF SQUARE. 01:02:24 - MS- GI RIDES A BULLDOZER TO CLEAN UP RUBBLE IN AMERICAN SECTOR. MS- YOUNG GERMAN WORKER WITH LONG HAIR DRILLS INTO A ROCK. 01:02:56 - MONTAGE- BERLINERS GO TO THE POLLS AND SURPRISE THE RUSSIANS WITH A LANDSLIDE VICTORY FOR THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATS. MS- OFFICIAL DUMPS CONTENTS OF BALLOT BOX ON TABLE. 01:03:53 - MONTAGE- SECTOR SIGNS IN RUSSIAN, FRENCH AND ENGLISH. PATROLS AND GUARD TOWERS ASSURE NO ONE VIOLATES THE BORDERS. 01:04:20 - MONTAGE- REFUGEES WITH THEIR SUITCASES POUR OUT OF THE RUSSIAN SECTOR. MONTAGE- COMMUNIST RALLIES IN THE EASTERN SECTOR. 01:05:26 - CU- BUNDLES OF MONEY PILED ON TABLE, AS WEST BERLIN INTRODUCES MONETARY REFORM AND EXCHANGE NEW NOTES FOR OLD. MS- OLD MONEY IS THROWN INTO A SHREDDER. 01:05:40 - LS- HUGE CROWD AT RAILROAD STATION CARRY SUITCASES AS REFUGEES POUR IN. CU- TRAIN WHEEL COMES TO SCREECHING HALT. LS- BARRIER COMES DOWN ON ROAD, LIGHTS GO OUT AS RUSSIANS SHUT DOWN WEST BERLIN. 01:06:26 - LS- BUSINESS SHUT DOWN, RAILROADS ARE IDLED AND PEOPLE FEEL STRANDED. ALLIES COUNTER WITH THE BERLIN AIRLIFT. LS-PLANE AFTER PLANE TAKING OFF. 01:08:09 - MS- CROWDS OF WEST BERLINERS CLIMB STEPS TO THE STREET FROM SUBWAY STATION. MS- WOMEN FILL BAKERY STORE SELLING BREAD AGAIN, THANKS TO THE AIRLIFT. 01:08:34 - LS- COMMUNISTS STAGE DEMONSTRATIONS IN EAST BERLIN OBJECTING TO THE AIRLIFT. 01:08:56 - AERIAL- HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF WEST BERLINERS SHOW THEIR UNIFICATION AGAINST THE BLOCKADE AS WEST BERLIN MAYOR HANS REUTER SPEAKS TO THEM. 01:09:53 - MAP SHOWS THE 12 NATIONS THAT JOINED TOGETHER TO FORM NATO AS RESULT OF COMMUNIST ACTIONS IN BERLIN 01:10:39 - LS- AMERICAN AIRLIFT CARGO PLANE BURNS AFTER CRASHING. GERMAN FIREMEN USE HOSES TO FIGHT FIRE. 01:11:06 - LS- HUNDREDS OF WORKERS GET OUT OF HUGE TRUCKS AT AIRFIELD TO HELP WITH THE AIRLIFT AS PLANE AFTER PLANE LAND WHICH HAS NOW BECOME ROUTINE. 01:11:39 - MONTAGE- WOMEN UNLOAD CLOTHING, MEN UNLOAD SIDES OF BEEF. AERIAL THOUSANDS OF BARRELS OF LIQUIDS ARE PILED UP IN HUGE WAREHOUSES. 01:11:54 - MS- WOMEN EXIT A BAKERY WITH THEIR SUPPLY OF BREAD AND PASTRIES. 01:12:20 - MONTAGE- GENERAL IKE MEETS WITH GENERAL OF NATO. 01:12:55 - MONTAGE- TRUCKS AND CARS SPEED FORWARD ON AUTOBAHN AT NIGHT AS RUSSIANS FINALLY LIFT THE BARRIERS. 01:13:14 - MS- CLERK PLACES A PEN FOR EACH NATO DELEGATE ON THE LONG EMPTY TABLE PRIOR TO A MEETING. 01:13:30 - LS- BRANDENBURG GATE. MS- MAYOR HANS REUTER OF WEST BERLIN SITS AT HIS DESK. 01:14:00 - MONTAGE-TRUCKS RIDE THE AUTOBAHN AGAIN. TRAINS RUN AND BOATS RIDE THE CANALS. 01:14:17 - MS- CROWDS WAIT FOR TRAIN AS IT PULLS INTO A STATION AS BERLINERS COME AND GO TO EAST BERLIN. 01:14:30 - MS- TWIN TROLLEY CAR RIDES TO THE BORDER WHERE OPERATORS ARE CHANGED TO EAST BERLINER. MS- PEOPLE EXCHANGE MONEY ON BOTH SIDES BEFORE CROSSING. 01:16:00 - MONTAGE- EAST GERMANS REBEL IN THE STREETS, BURN BUILDINGS IN PROTEST OF COMMUNISTS. RED ARMY TANKS ARE CALLED IN. LS- RIOTERS THROW ROCKS AT TANKS 01:16:47 - MONTAGE- A STREAM OF REFUGEES LEAVING EAST BERLIN TURNS INTO A FLOOD 01:17:30 - MONTAGE- HUGE MACHINERY BEING PRODUCED IN BOOMING WEST BERLIN INDUSTRIAL PLANTS. 01:18:12 - MONTAGE- HUGE MOURNING CROWDS GATHER FOR FUNERAL OF THE POPULAR WEST BERLIN MAYOR HANS REUTER. 01:18:20 - LS- WEST GERMAN CHANCELLOR ADENAUER AT A NATO MEETING, AS THE NEW GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC JOINS THE ORGANIZATION. 01:18:49 - LS- RUSSIA'S BULGANIN AND PRESIDENT IKE CHAT AND SMILE AT THE AT THE GENEVA SUMMIT MEETING. 01:19:00 - MS- STEWARDESS CARRIES TWO HOT MEALS TO TRAVELLERS ON A PLANE. AERIAL- A MODERN NEW WEST BERLIN AS SEEN FROM PLANE. LS- MEMORIAL TO THE AIRLIFT IS SEEN ON ARRIVING AT AIRPORT. 01:19:20 - MONTAGE- NEW SKYLINE OF MODERN BUILDINGS WHICH ROSE FROM THE RUBBLE. MS- DOUBLE-DECKER BUSES, CAR AND BIKE TRAFFIC SPEEDING ALONG THE BUSY STREETS 01:19:38 - LS- IN CONTRAST, BOMBED OUT SKELETONS OF BUILDINGS AND EMPTY STREETS REMAIN IN EAST BERLIN. (PAN) 01:19:54 - LS- LONG LINE OF FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN AND SUITCASES STREAM OUT OF THE AIRPORT BUILDING ON ARRIVAL TO WEST BERLIN AS THE FLOW CONTINUES. 01:20:33 - LS- PRESIDENT IKE SITS NEXT TO BRITAIN'S MACMILLAN AS HE MAKES SPEECH AT NATO ROUND TABLE CU- ADENAUER LISTENS ON EARPHONES. 01:21:27 - MONTAGE- CROWDS CHEER KHRUSHCHEV AS HE VISITS EAST BERLIN, THREATENING TO SIGN SEPARATE PEACE TREATY WITH THEM. 01:21:39 - LS- KHRUSHCHEV EXITS SUMMIT MEETING IN PARIS AFTER BREAKING IT UP BY USING U-2 INCIDENT AS REASON. LS- KHRUSHCHEV ANGRILY ENTERS HIS CONVERTIBLE LIMO AND TAPS THE DRIVER ON THE BACK TO MOVE ON. 01:21:51 - MS- KHRUSHCHEV WAVES HIS FINGER IN THE AIR AS HE MAKES A DRAMATIC AND ANGRY SHOUTING SPEECH 01:22:13 - MS- PRESIDENT JFK AND KHRUSHCHEV MEET ON JUNE 4,1961.KHRUSHCHEV CONTINUES TO MAKE THREATS TO MAKE SEPARATE PEACE TREATY WITH EAST GERMAN THINKING IT WILL END ALL ALLIED RIGHTS THERE. 01:22:25 - MS- KHRUSHCHEV GESTURES WITH CLENCHED FIST AS HE SPEAKS WITH SMILE ON HIS FACE. 01:22:45 - LS- A WALL OF EAST BERLIN POLICE AND ARMORED VEHICLES STAND BEFORE THE BRANDENBURG GATE FACING WEST BERLIN CROWDS WHO SHOUT AND WAVE FISTS LS- ARMORED TRUCKS FIRE JETS OF WATER AT CROWD 01:23:30 - MS- EAST BERLIN POLICE BEGIN ERECTING BARBED WIRE BARRICADES BETWEEN THE TWO ZONES. LS- A MAN THROWS HIS WORLDLY GOODS OUT A WINDOW TO HIS WIFE OUTSIDE AS THEY RACE ACROSS TO THE WEST SIDE. 01:24:07 - MS- AN EAST BERLIN POLICEMAN DROPS HIS RIFLE AND MAKES A DASH TO A WAITING VAN 01:24:25 - MS- MAYOR WILLIE BRANDT OF WEST BERLIN ADDRESSES HUNDREDS OF THOUSAND OF CITIZENS IN A DRAMATIC SPEECH. 01:24:55 - MONTAGE-CROWDS CHEER U.S. TROOPS AS THEY RIDE DOWN STREETS. 01:25:19 - MONTAGE- BRICK BY BRICK EAST GERMAN POLICE AND WORKERS BEGIN TO BUILD THE BERLIN WALL. MS- WEST BERLIN FAMILIES WAVE TO THEIR LOVED ONES ACROSS THE WALL 01:25:46 - MS- KONRAD ADENAUER IS MET BY A RADIO TRUCK BROADCASTING INSULTS FROM THE OTHER SIDE 01:26:18 - LS- PAN OF THE WALL FROM AFAR WITH IT'S ARMED GUARDS. 01:27:13 - MS- HEADS OF EAST BERLIN POLICE ARE VISIBLE AS THEY PATROL THE WALL. (PAN) FAMILIES IN TALL BUILDINGS ON THE EAST SIDE SIGNAL TO THEIR LOVED ONES ON THE WEST FROM THEIR WINDOWS. 01:27:23 - MS- SOLEMN MAN PEERS THROUGH THE BARBED WIRE.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1900
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1900s
- File Name: VM-1148