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7.4Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog gathered footage from U.S. and German newsreel sources and crafted this taut short film about the first year of the Berlin Wall. Straightforward, keenly balanced narration portrays Berliners as "accepting the wall but never resigned to it". The extraordinary footage of the first escapes was propaganda enough-- His challenge was to make the politics human.
Released: 1962-11-089 minDir: Walter de HoogDocumentary
Cast
- Alexander Scourby as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Themes
- berlin, germany
- propaganda
- berlin wall
- cold war
- short film
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- 1962-01-01
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- The Wall
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1960s in Berlin1962 American films1962 English-language films1962 films1962 short documentary filmsAmerican anti-communist propaganda shortsAmerican black-and-white filmsAmerican short documentary filmsDocumentary films about BerlinEnglish-language short documentary filmsFilms about the Berlin WallTemplate film date with 1 release dateUnited States Information Agency films