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Were real footage/photgraphs used for some of the backdrops?


I thought some of the backdrops in many scenes, such as damage as well as marches and so forth, looked like they may have been real footage. It's not listed in the trivia, so does anyone know?

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A review I read says that Soderbergh utilized unused footage shot in a still-bombed-out 1948 Berlin by Billy Wilder for "A Foreign Affair.

[http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/reviews/The-Good-German]

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I'm pretty sure that the actual footage showing Churchill etc was original footage :)

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