Berlin (East and West Berlin) 1961 archive footage
Archival footage shot by Otto Wolf, a Swiss filmmaker, while visiting Europe in 1961. It contains stock footage of Berlin a few weeks before the wall was built. West Berlin: traffic in front of the Tiergarten, the Victory Column, Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church and Kurfürstendamm, the Telefunken-Hochhaus, Charlottenburg Palace, the Brandenburg Gate. East Berlin: the […]
Berlin (West Berlin) 1982 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting East and West Berlin in the summer of 1982. It contains stock footage of various places in the western part of the city: traffic in the street, Moritzstraße in the Spandau district, the Kunstgewerbemuseum and Egyptian museum plaques, Bernauer Straße and the Wall and a DDR […]
San Francisco 1983 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while touring the USA in Autumn 1983. It contains stock footage of San Francisco: people walking on Powell Street, panoramic views of the Oakland Bay Bridge, San Francisco City Hall, St. Mary’s Cathedral, the Camera Obscura in the Richmond District, the Golden Gate Bridge, Pier 39, the Old […]
Berlin (West Berlin) 1976 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting Berlin in 1976. It mainly contains stock footage of West Berlin, but also of East Berlin: a man dressed like a bear greetings pedestrian in Kurfürstendamm, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche, cars, streets, traffic, Airlift Memorial outside Tempelhof airport, Soviet War Memorial in Tiergarten, the wall in front of Brandenburg […]