S-Bahn Friedrichstrasse to Lehrter Stadtbahnhof
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This is what crossing the Berlin Wall by the S-Bahn looked like. Also, if you like the sound of the classic ET 165 train engines, here is the relevant nostalgia in stereo :-) Filmed in late November 1989, soon after the fall of the wall, but nothing has changed here yet except the border guard booths are empty. There would normally be there a guy in uniform, usually surgically attached to his binoculars or a telephone. The footage looks a bit dreary but November is a dreary month in that part of Europe! I tried to fix this a bit but one of these decades I need to run it through a proper AI-based colour corrector.
The ride starts in the western half of the station Friedrichstraße located in East Berlin (one would normally be in that half after the passport control, like in an airport secure area). That S-Bahn line was a western one, terminating at that stop, so it had to cross the wall to reach it. The corresponding eastern line served the eastern half of the station building and extended into East Berlin, with its own platform separated from the western one by a metal wall (you can see it at the very end in the background, with some eastern advertising on it). Then we cross to the first station in West Berlin (Lehrter Stadtbahnhof, now replaced by the giant Hauptbahnhof).
See also: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-Baur...
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When we were under 18 we did this trip to get cheap alcohol and cigarettes at the Intershop in Friedrichstraße station. Walking through the transit areas of the station was a weird experience.
interesting video 👍
Lovely piece of history 👍. I still remember that rubbery U-Bahn sent, but I`ve never used S-Bahn if I remember correctly. I have a question and a suggestion for you. Did you film with VHS or S-VHS camcorder (maybe Video8 or Hi8) and what is your analog to digital conversion workflow? I would suggest (if you don`t mind) that you look into AviSynth/QTGMC/Hybrid `deinterlace` method. You could start with 720x576 or 720x480 `interlaced` footage and end up with much cleaner and smoother 1080 50p or 60p video without jagged lines (*same picture ratio, not 16:9), night and day difference. I play with that stuff and people usually don`t know (or simply do not care) what can be done with analog, DV and Digital8 footage.
@JanPBtest
10 ай бұрын
It's Hi8 but an old copy to digital video. It was deinterlaced but it faithfully preserves the pixelation of the standard-definition sensor 🙂which is where the jagged lines come from. I could improve on it like I did with the Berlin Wall video. I'll take a look at the equipment you suggested, thanks! IIRC I used a Sony camcorder with DV outputs to do the A/D conversion. I have a lot of Hi8 and Digital8 footage. You may find it interesting that the Berlin Wall video (the "random walk June-July" one) was digitised about a year ago from the original Hi8 tapes which were initially unplayable: they had to be baked first! You probably know what I'm talking about. It works like magic. It's really impressive that those super-tiny video tracks after all these yearts are playable with practically no dropouts.
@aresmilitaryaviation6254
10 ай бұрын
@@JanPBtest I`ve read about tape baking but never tried it, glad it worked for you 🙂. My father worked in Berlin back in the 80es so I asked him a few days ago if he could reach the Branderburg Gate from the western side and today I saw in your `A random walk more or...` video that there was a wall in front of it with some `Stasi camera shy` officers behind it 😄. About AviSynth/QTGMC/Hybrid - it is free software 👍. Here are examples of what can be done with Hi8 and VHS (kzread.info/dash/bejne/oHx2wbNsobm6l9Y.html or kzread.info/dash/bejne/oKOAsJWaYZPgc7w.html). Enough of me rambling, stay safe and keep up the good work!
@JanPBtest
10 ай бұрын
@@aresmilitaryaviation6254 Here is the baking: drive.google.com/file/d/1ob3RRnBgNSeHdxCSmSthhIx4-46N12Fj/view?usp=drive_link
@JanPBtest
10 ай бұрын
@@aresmilitaryaviation6254 I posted a link to the photo showing the tape baking (in a separate post because YT tends to remove posts with non-YT URLs in them). Of course the dehydrator is covered by a lid when at work. Thanks for the links to the Avi etc. I recently started playing with Topaz Gigapixel which is amazing but it's still photography only AFAICT. The border patrol guys were shy because my camera had a nice bright flashing red LED in front which carried _far._ Somehow I never thought of taping over it 🙂
@aresmilitaryaviation6254
10 ай бұрын
@@JanPBtest Interesting, thanks for sharing 👍
West-Berliners avoided to take the S-Bahn because it belonged to the DR East (Deutsche Reichsbahn Ost). Funny, during riding the trains to Wannsee or elsewhere it was mostly empty and no conducter showed up at all. Thair carriages wher later sold to Pjönjang in North Korea and are still in use with a new touch of green paint
@JanPBtest
Жыл бұрын
There was an S-Bahn boycott in West Berlin in the 1980s, forget which year. I think the carriages sold to North Korea were U-Bahn carriages (U-Bahn was administered by West Berlin).
@EU_Citizen
6 ай бұрын
@MauritiusAlive Ganz gefährliches Halbwissen. Ich war seinerzeit selbst Triebfahrzeugführer S-Bahn, und die Betriebsrechte der S-Bahn in West-Berlin lagen von 1984 bis 1994 bei der BVG. Desweiteren wurden nur BVG ausgemusterte U-Bahnzüge nach Pjönjang geliefert, 1993 und 1996 sogenannte Giselas und 1998 und 1999 der sogenannte Typ Dora. Manchmal ist es besser, einfach den Mund zu halten!
passengers were Berliners using the checkpoint at Friedrichstrasse / East Berlin for a family reunified day visit. Beside that incocnito Stasi employees where underneath the travellers to watch out for smugglers and inappropriate critics towards the communist east.
@EU_Citizen
6 ай бұрын
@MauritiusAlive Auch hier wieder nur gefähliches Halbwissen. 1. Der Grenzübergang Friedrichstraße war für alle West-Berliner zur Einreise in die DDR bzw. in die Hauptstadt selbiger und für Rentner aus dem Osteil der Stadt zur Einreise in die BRD bzw. West-Berlin. 2. War die DDR nicht kommunistisch, sondern sozialistisch. Lass es einfach zukünftig solch einen Quatsch zu verbreiten!
@Terra_Incognita201
6 ай бұрын
@@EU_Citizen Und du bist Allwissend ? Das was ich schrieb trifft zu. Ich werde hier aber keine Romane schreiben. Du kannst dazu beitragen aber keine Kritik verteilen, die nicht in deinem Ermessen steht. “Sozialistisch” hat die DDR sich nur genannt. Es war der kommunistische Ostblock. Ich denke, dass du einer aus der ehem. DDR bist, der nur die Tatsachen verdrehen möchte !
@Terra_Incognita201
6 ай бұрын
@@EU_Citizen ausserdem solltest du englisch lernen, da deine Kritik nichts mit dem zu tun hat, was ich da geschrieben habe. Dein Post hier ist also nur “gefährliches Halbwissen” oder Dummheit