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Shop window with bathing suit mannequins, Berlin 1930

Curious passers-by gather in front of an illuminated shop window where mannequins display modern bathing suits; a man in a hat turns toward the camera. Such window displays were part of everyday life on Berlin's shopping streets in the late Weimar Republic, when ready-to-wear fashion and leisurewear became affordable for a broad public. The revealing bathing suit stood for the new, sporty and liberated body culture of the 1920s and early 1930s. The footage comes from unedited newsreel material on urban life in Berlin.

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

Specifications

Clip name
HFE009989
Length
0' 07"
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Frames per Second
24 fps
Chroma Subsampling
yuv422p10le
Resolution
1920 × 1080
Format
MOV
File Size
157,748,724 bytes
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