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Some primarily railway related views filmed in Berlin a few months after the wall had been opened but when the city was still divided. The film includes the following:- i)Several views of the Berlin wall, watch towers, etc as seen from S-Bahn trains. ii) Platform views taken at Gesundbrunnen, Friedrichstr. and Zoo stations. iii) The duty free ‘Intershop’ shops for West Berlin passengers changing between trains at Friedrichstr, which was wholly in East Berlin. iv) Several rides (S-Bahn and U-Bahn) on West Berlin trains through closed stations in the Eastern controlled part of Berlin. v) A DDR (former East Germany) map of the U & S Bahn in what the Eastern authorities called ‘Westberlin’. By way of explanation of the important issues this film is subtitled. Video taken in April 1990, still images taken in December 1989. More information and pictures about the Berlin Wall can be found here: en.wikipedia.org