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Google has marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with a moving video tribute.
Posted on Google’s homepage on Sunday, it features vintage footage taken on 9 November, 1989, the day the wall came down. The 10-mile-long wall, which separated democratic West Berlin and communist East Berlin, was the most enduring symbol of the Cold War.
The video also shows the locations of pieces of the wall in cities around the world, such as London, Madrid, Cape Town, Seoul, and Washington DC.
To get inspiration for its latest Doodle, the team visited a local library near the company’s Berlin headquarters to study a piece of the wall, according to a blog post.
“This graffitied chunk of concrete, once a literal division, has been transformed into a symbol of unity, a reminder to passersby of the triumph of the collective human spirit. It was moving to see it in person and, appropriately enough, spray-painted on this special slab are the German words ‘Wir lieben dich’—‘we love you’.”
Video production marketplace Veed.Me gathered footage from the German Federal Archives, while German musician Nils Frahm composed the score.
Relive the historic events from 25 years ago in the video below.
[via Mashable, video via googledoodles]
Google has marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with a moving video tribute.
Posted on Google’s homepage on Sunday, it features vintage footage taken on 9 November, 1989, the day the wall came down. The 10-mile-long wall, which separated democratic West Berlin and communist East Berlin, was the most enduring symbol of the Cold War.
The video also shows the locations of pieces of the wall in cities around the world, such as London, Madrid, Cape Town, Seoul, and Washington DC.
To get inspiration for its latest Doodle, the team visited a local library near the company’s Berlin headquarters to study a piece of the wall, according to a blog post.
“This graffitied chunk of concrete, once a literal division, has been transformed into a symbol of unity, a reminder to passersby of the triumph of the collective human spirit. It was moving to see it in person and, appropriately enough, spray-painted on this special slab are the German words ‘Wir lieben dich’—‘we love you’.”
Video production marketplace Veed.Me gathered footage from the German Federal Archives, while German musician Nils Frahm composed the score.
Relive the historic events from 25 years ago in the video below.
[via Mashable, video via googledoodles]