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Berlin - 24 October 2014
1. Close of smartphone with Timetraveller app. Person holds smartphone up towards picture on building near where Berlin wall used to stand. Video appears, showing Conrad Schumann jumping over barbed wire to escape to West Berlin on 15 August 1961
2. Close of smartphone showing video of Schumann jumping
3. People looking at video, large picture of Schumann in background (taken by Peter Leibing)
4. App showing information about escape of 77-year old Frida Schulze. Person presses activate augmented reality and video appears showing Schulze trying to escape by her kitchen window
5. Wide of person holding smartphone, zoom in to smartphone, picture appears showing apartment buildings that stood on the spot before being demolished to make way for the Berlin wall
6. Anna Harlin and Tim Bergdorf, tourists from Sweden, looking at app
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Berlin - 25 September 2014
7. Robin Hardenberg, creator of Timetraveller app, holding up tablet. App shows destruction of Church of Reconciliation on January 22, 1985
8. Close of app showing destruction of Church of Reconciliation
9. SOUNDBITE: (German), Robin Hardenberg, Creator, Time Traveller:
"Time Traveller is an app that allows you to experience history at the place where it happened. Here for example we are at the Berlin Wall strip and you can see what happened when the Church of Reconciliation was destroyed, it is a kind of symbol of the godlessness of this place. And what is special is that you see it here, you don't see it as a film on the iPad, but rather you see it at the place where it happened. It is like a window to the past."
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Berlin - 24 October 2014
10. Wide pan of Berlin Wall at Bernauer strasse memorial in Berlin
11. Close of Berlin Wall
12. Man by Berlin Wall
13. Tilt up of Berlin Wall
14. Pull focus from street to Berlin Wall
15. Wide of Berlin Wall
16. People in front of Berlin Wall
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Berlin - 25 September 2014
17. SOUNDBITE: (German), Robin Hardenberg, Creator, Timetraveler:
"It is really for tourists, but also for anyone who is interested in the history of Berlin. The Berlin Wall has almost disappeared from the city, but here you can actually see what has happened in the past. You can see people escaping from windows and you can see how the wall was built."
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Berlin - 24 October 2014
18. Close of app showing Berlin wall being built
19. Close of app showing Berlin wall being built
20. Pan from Berlin Wall memorial to Berlin wall strip with picture of the Rosin family escaping from a window on August 17, 1961
21. Close of picture on wall showing Rosin family escaping
22. Harlin and Bergdorf looking at escape of Rosin family on app
23. Close of video showing Rosin family throwing their belongings from window on Bernauer strasse
24. Wide of Harlin and Bergdorf holding smartphone
25. Close of Harlin and Bergdorf holding smartphone
26. App showing escape of Schumann
27. SOUNDBITE: (English), Anna Harlin, visiting from Sweden:
"I really like the app actually. It is great and it would be wonderful if you could work it everywhere, just put it on all the houses and see what happened there for, like 40 years ago."
28. Close of app showing escape of Schulze, zoom out to wide
29. SOUNDBITE: (English), Tim Bergdorf, visiting from Sweden:
"It gave me a bit more of a better understanding of what actually happened here. Really interesting and really cool."
30. Close of app showing when Schulze finally escaped. An East German official is trying to pull her back in to the apartment but a passerby grabs her legs and pulls her down to the safety of West Germany below.
31. Wide of tourists at Berlin Wall strip near Bernauer strasse
32. Wide of memorial wall
33. Close of people at memorial
34. Hanna Berger, Berlin Wall Foundation spokesperson, walking along Berlin Wall
35. SOUNDBITE: (German), Hanna Berger, Berlin Wall Foundation spokesperson:
"The Berlin Wall is a very important tourist attraction in Berlin. In general tourists also come to Berlin for the history of the city."
AP Television
Berlin - 25 September 2014
36. Hardenberg holding tablet with app showing family escaping by jumping from window. The West Berlin fire brigade stands below with a stretched out rescue sheet.
37. Close of app showing escape of family
AP Television
Berlin - 24 October 2014
38. SOUNDBITE: (German), Hanna Berger, Berlin Wall Foundation spokesperson:
"I think this is helping. We also think that this is good way to inform. It obviously depends on what the app shows, but in general it is good to use these new technologies, I think it is especially useful for the younger generation."
AP Television
Berlin - 25 September 2014
39. App showing picture of old buildings that were demolished to make way for Berlin Wall and Berlin Wall strip
It is August 15th 1961.
Conrad Schumann, a 19-year old People's Army soldier from East Germany, is standing guard at the newly built barrier separating East and West Berlin.
On the other side of the barrier a crowd has gathered. They are calling for the soldiers on the opposite side to defect.
Suddenly Schumann starts running and after a few steps he is next to the barbed wire separating East and West Berlin.
He takes a leap, machine-gun in hand, and escapes to the Western side - and with that action creates one of the most enduring images of the Berlin Wall.
The photo of Schumann in mid-air, taken by Peter Leibing, became world famous and has been used for decades to illustrate those first confusing days when the East German authorities surprised the world by cordoning off the West Berlin.
The temporary barrier of barbed wire soon became a wall, with guard towers and a so-called death zone controlled by snipers and landmines.
Now, 25 years after the wall fell on November 9, 1989, visitors to the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse can use a new app to get a feel for Schumann's escape, and 9 other events from the 28 years that the wall divided the German capital.
The Timetraveler app, developed by Robin Hardenberg in cooperation with Munich-based Metaio, uses augmented reality technology to show the historical video and photos on smartphones and tablets.
With the help of GPS the app guides the visitors to 10 sites.
Once there, the user clicks "activate augmented reality" and sees a regular feed from the camera on the screen.
But shortly after a video or photo will appear on the screen, superimposed on the current live feed, creating a mix of old and new video.
Standing at the viewing platform at Bernauer Strasse, Hardenberg explains:
"Time Traveller is an app that allows you to experience history at the place where it happened. Here for example we are at the Berlin Wall strip and you can see what happened when the Church of Reconciliation was destroyed, it is a kind of symbol of the godlessness of this place. And what is special is that you see it here, you don't see it as a film on the iPad, but rather you see it at the place where it happened. It is like a window to the past."
The app is available for 1.79 euro 9around USD $2) both on iTunes and on Google Play.
The Berlin Wall once encircled the whole of West Berlin.
It started off as a simple barrier made from barbed wire.
But throughout the years the construction was reinforced.
A concrete wall was built in 1965, and soon after a second wall inside the East German territory, which created the so-called death strip between the two walls.
The final version of the wall was built in 1975 and ran for 150 kilometres (93 miles) around West Berlin.
It was 3.6 meters (11.8 feet) high and made up of thousands of slabs of reinforced concrete.
On November 9, 1989, after months of protests and political changes in both Moscow and Berlin and confusion surrounding new travel directives for East German citizens, the wall was breached and then opened.
After the fall, most of the wall was broken apart and taken away.
Today there are only a few places left in Berlin where visitors can come close to the original wall structure.
The Bernauer Strasse memorial is one of the hot spots for the Wall tourists, and one of the reasons Hardenberg decided to focus the app on that area.
"It is really for tourists but also for anyone who is interested in the history of Berlin," he says.
"The Berlin wall has almost disappeared from the city, but here you can actually see what has happened in the past. You can see people escaping from windows and you can see how the wall was built."
Most of the video clips show escapes in the early days of the wall when people could cross the barrier by jumping out of their windows.
One shows 77-year old Frida Schulze dangling from her window.
Above, in her apartment is an East German official trying to pull her back.
Below a man is pulling her leg, trying to help her escape to West Berlin below.
In the end Schulze drops down onto the pavement and makes her way into the Western sector.
Another clip shows the Rosin family throwing their belongings out of the window as East German officials arrive to ask them to vacate their apartment.
According to the Germany Federal Commission dealing with the documents and records of the former East German State, at least 136 people died trying to cross the Berlin wall between 1961 and 1989.
But today the scenes around Bernauer Strasse are more serene.
Tourists wander around the memorial, getting a feeling for what life was like in a divided city.
Anna Harlin and Tim Bergdorf are visiting Berlin from Stockholm, Sweden.
They are trying out the Timetraveler app for the first time.
Harlin says she is impressed:
"I really like the app actually. It is great and it would be wonderful if you could work it everywhere, just put it on all the houses and see what happened there, like for 40 years ago," she says.
Bergdorf says the app gave him a better understanding of life behind the wall.
"It gave me a bit more of a better understanding of what actually happened here. Really interesting and really cool," he says.
Over 2000 people visit the 220-metre long (722 foot) stretch of the Berlin Wall each day according to Berlin Wall Memorial Foundation.
On average a visitor spends 70 minutes here.
"The Berlin Wall is a very important tourists attraction in Berlin. In general tourists also come to Berlin for the history of the city," says Hanna Berger, the Berlin Wall Foundation spokesperson.
Berger says the foundation is a positive for people developing new ways to experience the wall.
"I think this is helping," she says.
"We also think that this is good way to inform. It obviously depends on what the app shows, but in general it is good to use these new technologies, I think it is especially useful for the younger generation."
In addition to the augmented reality part of the Timetraveler app, visitors can also read information about the different points they are visiting.
The app shows the end of the story about Conrad Schumann who leaped to freedom.
He spent his whole life in the West but suffered from depression, despite building a new life there and in 1998, almost ten years after the fall of the Wall he committed suicide.
Another sad end to another sad story with the Berlin Wall as a permanent backdrop.
