The Wall (1962)
1962 · Short film · 9 min · dir. Walter de Hoog
- propaganda film
Synopsis
Like 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…
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Walter de Hoog
- Writer
- Walter de Hoog
- Studio
- U.S. Information Agency, Hearst Metrotone News
- Released
- 1962-11-08
- Running time
- 9 minutes
Cast & crew
- Walter de Hoog Director
- Peter Fechter
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Public Domain · andyzare · 2007-12-05
I have contacted the National Archives about this film and they cannot confirm that this film is in the public domain. I am wondering if someone can definitively verify whether or not it is.
★★★★★ · My Experience · Johann38 · 2007-12-06
There was an economic downturn in the early sixties and I lost my job. I was 23 years old. I decided to join the Army in 1961 because my father had been in the Army. After induction and basic training, I was sent to the ALS (Army Language School) which is now the DLI (Defense Languages Institute in Monterey, California. I became a German translator and went directly to West Berlin. I arrived there in January of 1962 and engaged in doing work which was highly classified at the time. Except for one short, weekend leave to Hamburg, I was in West Berlin until March of 1964. This film, "The Wall"…
★★★★ · the grief · robcat2075 · 2007-12-07
I appreciate this film for focusing on the human grief caused by the wall rather than the immediate political circumstances. Although I suppose without those political circumstances some viewers may be mystified as to why the wall was even there.
