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This museum provides an obsessively detailed look through the discernible history of the wall, from the inception in the highest echelons right down to the tunnels furrowed beneath –<\/p>\n
And the Western world may be rapt in wonder, what does it look like to tunnel beneath the “prison walls” of a loathesome Communist regime, against the grain of their own “anti-fascist protection rampart”, to escape into the Free World? Three young students, after having engineered a tunnel, sold the rights to film the escape and capture the story to NBC, who arrived to film on September 14, 1962. The tunnel brought 26 people out of East Berlin. Here’s the resulting NBC documentary:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Tunnel<\/a><\/p>\n A few wikipedia facts about the film:<\/p>\n “The Tunnel<\/b><\/i> was a 90-minute black-and-white documentary film that chronicled how three West Berlin university students organized the escape of 26 friends and family members by digging a tunnel underneath the Berlin Wall. Produced by Reuven Frank and narrated by Piers Anderton, it was an NBC White Paper installment that was broadcast on December 10, 1962 and sponsored by the Gulf Oil Corporation.<\/p>\n The Tunnel<\/i> earned three Emmy Awards in 1963. It was the only documentary to receive the award as The Program of the Year. It was also honored for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Documentary and Outstanding Achievement in International Reporting.<\/p>\n The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) officially announced on October 11, 1962 that it was going to televise the documentary on October 31 from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. (EST). Reluctant to add to global tensions in light of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the television network decided on October 23 to indefinitely postpone the broadcast.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This museum provides an obsessively detailed look through the discernible history of the wall, from the inception in the highest echelons right down to the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"geo":{"latitude":52.5383224,"longitude":13.3960552,"description":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}