Overview
- Description
- Outtakes from the RKO feature film "Berlin Express," an anti-Nazi film about the search for a German emigrant turned US secret service who fights a conspiracy of Nazis in postwar Germany. This reel contains location shots in London and Paris.
"Thames River / Water Gypsys [sic]" Views of the river, boathouses, workers operating the locks. Various views of the boats at harborside. Boaters unload ship contents and move the boats around in the river beside a warehouse. (mostly black and white, the first few seconds appear in color) - Film Title
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Berlin Express
- Duration
- 00:04:28
- Date
-
Event:
1946
Production: 1947-1948
- Locale
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London,
England
- Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Gaye Granet
- Contributor
-
Director:
Jacques Tourneur
Producer: Bert Granet
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Outtakes.
- B&W / Color
- Color
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:00:08:00 to 01:04:36:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2862 Film: 16 mm - b&w - reversal original - B-wind
Master 2862 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - small
Master 2862 Film: 16 mm - b&w - reversal original - B-wind
Master 2862 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - small
Master 2862 Film: 16 mm - b&w - reversal original - B-wind
Master 2862 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - small
Master 2862 Film: 16 mm - b&w - reversal original - B-wind
Master 2862 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 2862 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
Preservation 2862 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
Preservation 2862 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
Preservation 2862 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small
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- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Conditions on Use
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum places no restrictions on use of this material. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this film footage.
- Copyright Holder
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- Gaye Granet, the daughter of the filmmaker Bret Granet, donated one reel of 16mm film outtakes of "Berlin Express" to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in February 2009 via her cousin Steven Harlem.
- Note
- Film can marked "London, Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin, 1946"
The first foot is straw tinted (color). - Film Source
- Granet, Ms. Gaye
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 5128
- Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:02:46
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Gaye Granet donated the original film outtakes from the 1948 RKO feature film Berlin Express, starring Merle Oberon and Robert Ryan, about the search for a German emigrant turned U.S. Secret Service agent who is kidnapped by a group of underground Nazis after the war. Gaye Granet is the daughter of Bert Granet, who produced the film. The footage contains location shots in Paris and London, filmed postwar. One reel of 16mm film (9 minutes)
Eiffel Tower and Paris street scenes, postwar
Film
Outtakes from the RKO feature film "Berlin Express," an anti-Nazi film about the search for a German emigrant turned US secret service who fights a conspiracy of Nazis in postwar Germany. This reel contains location shots in London and Paris. Paris. Pan up the Eiffel Tower. Views of the streets surrounding the Eiffel Tower, bicycle vendor, civilians on the grounds, a flower vendor, women with baby carriages, park. MS, tank in square. City street scenes with pedestrians, a bus filled with civilians passes by. Notre Dame, Seine riverside with fisherman, park benches, street traffic. More street scenes, showing narrow streets, Rue de la Huchette, Notre Dame Hotel, pedestrians, a casino, the Montmartre district, and a bakery.
