Berlin. Symphony of a Big City (1927)

Germany.

River water.

Barrier.

Rushing train.

Rails.

Telegraph poles.

Landscapes.

Bridge supports.

Train heading to Berlin.

Suburban settlements.

Houses with garden plots.

Industrial enterprises.

Construction sites.

Large railway station.

Advertisements on the walls of houses.

Berlin panorama.

Berlin Cathedral.

Clock on the tower. 5 am.

Deserted streets and squares.

Underground canal.

Facades of modern buildings.

Industrial enterprise.

Shops.

Shop windows.

Man with a dog on a deserted street.

Cat near the wall of a house.

Pigeons.

Advertising poster advertiser.

Railway depot.

Steam locomotive leaving.

Worker.

A male cleaner pours out a bucket.

Street with pedestrians.

Tram.

Passengers in trams and subway.

Gates of factories open.

Crowd of people on the city railway station.

Mostly workers, small service people.

Soldiers pass by.

A huge crowd hurries to work.

A beggar-organ grinder.

Factory chimneys.

Factory buildings and structures.

Workers go to the factory.

Parallel editing: cattle are driven to the slaughterhouse.

A worker at a machine.

Machines in operation.

Bottles of milk are filled on a conveyor.

Bread is baked.

Steel is manufactured.

Chimneys smoke

Germany.

Windows of houses are opening.

Cleaning of premises.

Vegetable sellers.

Shops are opening.

A maid from a posh mansion comes out with an errand.

Garbage collectors.

Postmen.

Children are going to school.

Children and teachers at school.

Jockeys on horses are leaving the stable.

They are washing the sidewalks and the roadway.

The public is boarding trams and buses.

Some important gentleman is getting into a car.

A shoe shiner.

The public at the railway station.

Officials, businessmen, employees.

The train is leaving.

Passengers with a newspaper in hand.

An elegantly dressed crowd on the street.

Employees are entering the office.

Employees are preparing their workplaces: dossiers, card indexes, typewriters.

Telephones are ringing.

The operator at the station can barely connect subscribers.

Germany.

Dogs.

Train.

Mining cart.

Construction work on the streets of Berlin.

Traffic flow: endless buses, trams.

Crowd around a street speaker.

Small traders advertise their wares.

Cage with pigeons.

Meeting of lovers.

Mannequins in shop windows.

Policemen.

Traffic squall.

Trams, cars.

Small cafe.

Passers-by on the street.

Taxi.

Church.

A lonely old woman on the porch.

Arrival of officials.

Guard of honor.

Procession of students - members of corporations.

Street rally.

A speaker speaks.

He is led away by police.

A hearse with a coffin.

Cars.

Trams.

Procession of advertising people.

S-Bahn train.

Puffs of steam.

Boarding a long-distance train.

Passengers on the platform.

Someone gets into a taxi.

Airport.

An airplane takes off.

Views of the city.

A luxury hotel.

A beggar.

Shchutsman helps a child across the street.

Traffic chaos.

The clock shows noon.

Germany.

Lunch break at a construction site.

Workers having a meal.

Parallel editing: horses eating oats from bags.

An elephant at the zoo.

A restaurant.

Wealthy people having lunch at tables.

Parallel editing: a lion devouring meat.

A child eating ice cream.

A baby camel sucking a mother camel.

A dishwasher.

A hippopotamus yawns.

A dog harnessed to a cart goes to bed.

Animals go to bed.

A man dozing on a bench.

A sleepy canal.

A bridge with crews on it.

A barge.

A sailor pushes off from the bottom with a pole.

A barge floats under the bridge.

Small boats on the river.

A photographer.

Children.

A girl playing with lion cubs.

The courtyard of a well-house.

Musicians in the courtyard.

An unemployed man at a shop window.

The city is waking up.

The presses are working again.

They are printing and getting ready for mailing daily newspapers.

Loading newspapers into a car.

Newspaper sellers selling newspapers.

Newspaper headlines"Strike", "Money".

Money rails.

A beggarly old woman.

A suicidal woman on a bridge.

Her eyes widened with horror.

A woman falls into the water.

A crowd on a bridge.

Fashion show.

Animals in a cage.

Rain.

People under umbrellas.

Fire trucks.

City transport.

Sparrows on the pavement.

End of the working day

Germany.

Workers washing themselves.

Elevators descending.

Worker exiting the gate.

The lock opening.

Boats with athletes.

People swimming on the beach.

Children.

Sailing yachts on the lake.

Children's and adult competitions / car racing, running, homing pigeons, bicycles, kayaks, horse racing, swimming /.

Tennis game.

Jockeys leaving for the races.

The public strolling.

Fashionably dressed ladies.

Fashion show in a summer cafe.

Restaurant.

Dancing couples.

Advertising lights flashing.

Illuminated advertising.

Cinema box office.

Auditorium.

Chaplin on the screen.

Shop windows.

Actresses preparing for a performance.

The audience in the theater.

Orchestra members.

Actors taking to the stage.

Floor acrobats.

Circus acts.

A scene from some operetta.

The audience leaving the theater.

Winter stadium.

Mass Ice skating.

Winter sports.

Skis, skates, hockey.

Cyclists on the track.

Boxing match.

Orchestra.

Dancing in a restaurant.

Violinist with an orchestra.

Workers at night.

Hammermen.

Night street.

Audience in a pub.

Accordionist.

Singer in a pub.

Dancing couples.

Casino.

Playing cards and roulette.

Night street.

Fireworks.

Lighthouse with a flickering light