BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt) is a short 1927 silent film directed by Walter Ruttmann and gives viewers a look at an average day of Germany’s capital city during the interwar years. The first half of the film (Reel 1) opens with a shot of dark water, followed by footage of a train racing along a track and passing telephone poles, farm houses, moving over a bridge, and passing a small town (03:24). The train moves past a factory on the outskirts of Berlin. Viewers see various neighborhoods of Berlin from the perspective of the train (04:06), before the train arrive