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Miniatures Adventure => Interwar => Topic started by: Michi on March 13, 2025, 12:11:00 PM

Title: Berlin 1930s
Post by: Michi on March 13, 2025, 12:11:00 PM: I was advised to watch this. I don't know if it has been mentioned here before - impressions of interwar Berlin city life:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC_RqTTT2u4
Title: Re: Berlin 1930s
Post by: Aethelflaeda was framed on March 13, 2025, 12:43:59 PM: follow that up with a binge of Berlin Babylon and you have inspiration for pulp scenario settings galore. The three wheeled pickups would be nice to have.
Title: Re: Berlin 1930s
Post by: Michi on March 13, 2025, 01:19:48 PM: Quote from: Aethelflaeda was framed on March 13, 2025, 12:43:59 PM
The three wheeled pickups would be nice to have.

Tempo A400
from 1938 also the similar Goliath F 200/F 400
Title: Re: Berlin 1930s
Post by: robh on March 13, 2025, 05:52:33 PM: Quote from: Michi on March 13, 2025, 01:19:48 PM
Tempo A400
from 1938 also the similar Goliath F 200/F 400

Wonderful little video.
The Goliath is from 1935 and a couple of the NAG double decker buses are the 1934 models so with the 1938 Tempo this film must be close to the outbreak of the war.
For being so late it is surprising there are still so few obvious signs of the NSDAP, just the one unidentified building next to the restaurant with the (blurred out) hakenkreuz on red banner. Not even any on the building being, very lazily, guarded by the soldier.
Title: Re: Berlin 1930s
Post by: Sakuragi Miniatures on March 27, 2025, 11:13:01 AM: Thanks for sharing, I love these videos that show what a place was really like at the time!
Title: Re: Berlin 1930s
Post by: carlos marighela on April 06, 2025, 12:21:39 AM: Indeed, thanks for sharing Michi. I've been looking for building colour schemes so I can get the most out of my Berlin structures. I've been looking for something pre war, so I can have buildings with interchangeable signage useful from 1918 through 1961 and on to 1984. Obviously, interspersed with more modern items post war but I want a core of buildings useful for all.
Title: Re: Berlin 1930s
Post by: carlos marighela on April 06, 2025, 12:29:05 AM: I'm sure you are familiar with the film Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt but excerpts have been colourised.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nFupfJk4T8

Here's the original 1927 version for those that haven't seen it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdFasmBJYFg
Title: Re: Berlin 1930s
Post by: molecatcherjohn on April 16, 2025, 04:44:46 PM: Those little three-wheelers...you're tempting me....reckon one of those would be pretty easy to model for 3D printing...

What would be top of your list to produce?
Title: Re: Berlin 1930s
Post by: HerbertTarkel on April 16, 2025, 05:20:41 PM: Oh that looks fab!

I had a work colleague who’s master’s thesis was the very not-very-underground LGTB scene in Berlin and how even early NSDAP were “in the scene”. She was great resource for that time frame. Could listen to her talk about that period all day, she was very passionate about it.
Title: Re: Berlin 1930s
Post by: Aethelflaeda was framed on April 16, 2025, 05:59:46 PM: There is also the play I am a Camera based on Christopher Isherwood’s Farewell to Berlin. The inspiration for Cabaret. There was a TV recent adaptation with Matt Smith playing Isherwood, but i don’t recall the title.