# Berlin Border Action

Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984) ARC Identifier 28466 / Local Identifier 111-LC-44811 1961 Berlin Border Action Berlin, Germany, 09/13/1961 - 09/14/1961 - American MP checkpoint at Friedrichstrasse. LSs, people standing and watching. LS, American MPs talking to civilians. LSs, MSs, MP desk on sidewalk in front of shop. Two MPs at the desk while an officer stands and looks thru binoculars. He puts them down and talks to the men at the desk. Scenes shot thru 400mm lens of the border and of East Berlin. MS, East German Police (VOPOS) in an armored car. One of the men is looking thru binoculars. This is at the Friedrichstrasse crossing. MLS, three VOPO guards at barrier at Charlotten Strasse. East German police near sentry box; they are standing about. Then the camera follows three of the policemen as they walk away. CU, VOPO; he carries a submachine gun on his shoulder; he is joined by another man armed the same way. MLS, flags on top of building in East Berlin. HS, East Berlin Friedrichstrasse. A car is zigzagging thru the barriers. HS, almost deserted street and the Wall at the Friedrichstrasse border. A car going thru the Friedrichstrasse border. Pan, East Berlin Friedrichstrasse to the Wall. The street is deserted. A West German standing and looking over the Wall as a truckload of East German police arrive. The truck backs up and stops. MS, from behind…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1961
- By: National Archives and Records Administration
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.28466)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.