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Businessman riding in a convertible through Berlin traffic, c. 1930

Name: Businessman riding in a convertible through Berlin traffic, c. 1930
Uploaded: 2026-09-04T00:16:49.477Z
Duration: 12 s
Channel: The March of Time (Outtakes)

A well-dressed gentleman in a felt hat, smoking a cigar, is chauffeured through a busy Berlin street in the back seat of an open convertible, surrounded by cyclists, pedestrians and other cars. Such images in newsreel footage stood for the prosperity and pace of the metropolis in the final years of the Weimar Republic, shortly before the Great Depression fundamentally changed daily life for many Berliners. Private automobiles were still a luxury reserved for a minority at the time.

Period: c. 1930–1932
Credit: The March of Time (Outtakes)US National ArchivesPublic Domain (NARA) · Digitalisierung und Bearbeitung: © zb Media GmbH

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Clip name: HFE009952
Length: 0' 12"
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frames per Second: 24 fps
Chroma Subsampling: yuv422p10le
Resolution: 1920 × 1080
Format: MOV
File Size: 263,389,348 bytes

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