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Motion Picture MP2013-17

Tempelhof Airport in Berlin

Administrative Information

Original Format(s)
Motion Picture
Footage
180 feet
Running Time
5 minutes 36 seconds
Film Gauge
16mm
Sound
silent
Color
Color
Produced by
Unknown
Restrictions
Unrestricted
Received
Robert Landry Papers
Keywords
Airplanes, Military
Airports
Berlin Blockade, 1948-1949
Description

Home movie footage showing the activities at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin during the Berlin Airlift. Also includes views of Berlin, including landmarks and destruction from the war.

Date(s)
ca.
1948
Available Format(s)
Motion Picture

SD-quality copies of already digitized motion pictures are available for $20, and HD-quality copies of already digitized motion pictures are $50. Copies of motion pictures not already digitized will incur additional costs.

SD-quality copies of already digitized motion pictures are available for $20, and HD-quality copies of already digitized motion pictures are $50. Copies of motion pictures not already digitized will incur additional costs.

This item does not circulate but reproductions may be purchased.

To request a copy of this item, please contact truman.reference@nara.gov​​​​​​​

Please note that this video belongs to a different video collection than the items available to be borrowed by teachers, from our Education Department.

Moving Image Type
Motion Picture

Shot List

0:00  Opens with distance shots of airport grounds showing several planes and military vehicles.

1:25  Footage of Truman Hall (office of U. S. military headquarters in Berlin) and grounds

1:38  Military personnel unloading bags of coal

2:03  Personnel on loading dock offloading bags of supplies.

2:13  Footage of the Berlin Post Exchange Mobile Snack Bar

2:27  More airport footage showing lines of parked military trucks and airplanes

3:01  Offloading bags from back of truck into plane

3:05  Major General Robert Landry standing near Post Exchange Snack Bar with others

3:22  Footage from the cockpit as plane takes off, aerial shots, then cockpit footage of landing

4:00  More planes on tarmac

4:12  Footage of local landmarks in Berlin

4:29  Area building destruction footage