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Extinguished street lamp, Berlin circa 1932
A single street lamp goes dark, the street beneath it empty and still. The brief shot forms the closing beat of a sequence on Berlin nightlife that had earlier shown cabarets, bars and dancing chorus lines. As the lighting switches off, the nocturnal bustle ends and the city returns to its everyday rhythm. Such atmospheric transition shots were a favored device of American newsreel crews to illustrate the shift between the pulsing entertainment districts and the quiet early morning of the Weimar capital.
- Period
- 1932
- Credit
- The March of Time (Outtakes)US National ArchivesPublic Domain (NARA) · Digitalisierung und Bearbeitung: © zb Media GmbH
Specifications
- Clip name
- HFE009999
- Length
- 0' 03"
- Aspect Ratio
- 16:9
- Frames per Second
- 24 fps
- Chroma Subsampling
- yuv422p10le
- Resolution
- 1920 × 1080
- Format
- MOV
- File Size
- 62,866,052 bytes