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Home movies: A West German records history on film as he takes some shots of East Berlin through a hole in the Berlin Wall
Home movies: A West German records history on film as he takes some shots of East Berlin through a hole in the Berlin Wall

Home movies: A West German records history on film as he takes some shots of East Berlin through a hole in the Berlin Wall

Date11/12/1989
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Original Toronto Star caption: Home movies: A West German records history on film as he takes some shots of East Berlin through a hole in the Berlin Wall.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0117267F
Berlin, Nov. 10: With the news that the berlin Wall was about to open, West Berliners gathered in view of the Brandenburg Gate under the gaze of East German police atop the wall
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Historic symbol: Throngs of West Germans gaze up at East German border quards atop the Berlin Wall, in front of the Brandenburg Gate
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A west German protestor tries to talk with East German soldiers who are occupying the Berlin Wall November 11
A west German protestor tries to talk with East German soldiers who are occupying the Berlin Wall November 11
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Heartbeat of Past: Clerk Cathy Cullen retrieves tax records from the collection, which includes maps, wills, diaries - even home movies of yesterday's family life
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View from the top: East and West Germans alike clambered to get a look at each other's cities from the top of the Berlin Wall near Potzdamer Platz
View from the top: East and West Germans alike clambered to get a look at each other's cities from the top of the Berlin Wall near Potzdamer Platz
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An East German holds up a brick of the Berlin Wall after he had crossed the border of the divided town over the new border crossing at Potzdam Place Nov. 12
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Home movies. Sergeant Mark Spafford of Peel Regional police takes videotape recordings of citizens returning home after being kept away for six days. (...)
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Blow for freedom: Thousands of excited Germans chipped off chunks of the Berlin Wall for Souvenirs
Blow for freedom: Thousands of excited Germans chipped off chunks of the Berlin Wall for Souvenirs
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Gerta Klaus, 7,Asks East Berlin Border Guards when they will leave the Berlin Wall November 11
Gerta Klaus, 7,Asks East Berlin Border Guards when they will leave the Berlin Wall November 11
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Pretty girls, bear cubs - Joe Laflamme, Ontario's famous wolf hunter, takes them all in his stride since getting into movies in a short about the Canadian wilds
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Author-Journalist Norman Mailer has recently taken to making movies, quasi-underground films which he produces, directs, writes and stars in himself
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Piano teacher Boris Berlin, 78, has taught some 1,000 students at the Royal Conservatory of Music and reached hundreds of thousands more through his piano books, which have sold 4 million copies. 'A person will love music if he understands it,' he believes.
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