Motion Picture MP2013-17
Administrative Information
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.
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.
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