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Sorting mail in Berlin, 1932
A postal worker tips letters from a wicker basket onto a sorting table while colleagues place the mail into pigeonholes. The footage comes from unedited newsreel material on everyday life in Berlin at the close of the Weimar Republic. The Deutsche Reichspost employed hundreds of thousands of people and ranked among the country's largest employers; during the Great Depression a permanent post office job was considered especially desirable. Manual sorting remained the norm well into the 1930s, before mechanical sorting equipment gradually took over.
- Period
- 1932
- Credit
- The March of Time (Outtakes)US National ArchivesPublic Domain (NARA) · Digitalisierung und Bearbeitung: © zb Media GmbH
Specifications
- Clip name
- HFE010333
- Length
- 0' 05"
- Aspect Ratio
- 16:9
- Frames per Second
- 24 fps
- Chroma Subsampling
- yuv422p10le
- Resolution
- 1920 × 1080
- Format
- MOV
- File Size
- 106,910,116 bytes