Berliner Momentbilder

Summary

1st intertitle: Panorama of Alexanderplatz with 'BEROLINA', a landmark of Berlin. Image: Square with female statue 'Berolina', buildings, busy street and intersection area, horses pulling big wagon with inscription: 'Post and Export Cards Factory Emil Jacobi', left side of image big monument with female figure 'Berolina'. Pan over street crossing, streetcar, sign with inscription: 'R. Zechlin', grandfather clock with 'Amol' advertisement. Camera pans further to the right, stores: carpets and tricotage by FR. HAHN, hairdresser, furniture factory 'Am Aleanderplatz', restaurant Patzenhofer. Pedestrian and street traffic (including streetcar).  

2nd intertitle: The Spree river at the Fischerbrücke bridge. A focal point for German inland shipping. Image: bridge, on the bank several tugboats, in the background houses, church. Boy walks across the bridge into the camera. Pan across the Spree to the other bank, house wall advertisement: Otto Weber Trauer Magazin, Mohrenstr. 45.  

3rd intertitle: View from Potsdamer Platz to Leipziger Platz, in the background the Wertheim department store. Image: busy street, streetcar, waving flags on the Wertheim department store, lively stream of passers-by.  

4th intertitle: At Potsdamer Platz at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.... Image: Pan over busy intersection, people, horse-drawn streetcar, 'Haus Vaterland ' in the background, streetcar, Potsdamer Bahnhof, street sign 'Bellevuestr.', advertising column, gatehouse at Potsdamer Platz in the image, pan to the left.  

5th intertitle: In front of the Iron Hindenburg. Image: Large statue of Hindenburg in front of the Victory Column (between the Reichstag and the Kroll Opera House); a wooden plateau around the monument, visitors on the platform.  

Source: Bundesarchiv