Word: leni
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still uncut and unedited last week was what Nazi authorities long ago announced as the exclusive, official film of the Olympic Games, produced under the direction of beauteous Leni Riefenstahl, good friend of the Führer. Over 2,000,000 ft. of film were exposed by German cameramen, no foreign cameras being permitted. When cut and assembled, this footage is to make one full-length German film of Nazi triumphs at the games, and 20 separate short films, with dialog in the languages of countries that sent teams to Berlin. Berlin film men said last week that...
...weekly visits to a neighboring town he saw her again. This time she had tried to commit suicide. When she lost her job Dr. David took care of her, finally brought her home as governess for his little boy, who was very sensitive. Leni, for that was her name, was a great success with the little boy, but did not make a hit with Mrs. Newcome. Mrs. Newcome hated music; Leni loved it, and the doctor encouraged her to play the piano. Not even readers were much surprised when Dr. David and Leni fell in love, though...
...affair came to a tragic conclusion. Mrs. Newcome discovered that Leni was an actress who had turned on the gas, obviously unfitted to bring up a nervous child. Leni had to leave. Night before she was to go, the War broke out. The little doctor tried to rush Leni to a train to get her back to Germany; the bicycle on which both were riding got a flat tire; they missed the train and spent an innocent night in the fields. When they got to London they were arrested. Unfortunately for them, that same night Mrs. Newcome had taken...
...Berlin's huge Olympic Stadium, packed by 110,000 spectators, Reichsführer Adolf Hitler stopped chatting with his good friend Cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl, official Olympic photographer, long enough to discharge last week his sole function at the XIth Olympic Games. Said he: "I proclaim open the Olympic Games of Berlin, celebrating the XIth Olympiad of the modern era." Trumpets sounded across the arena. On a flagpole, the Olympic Flag-white with five interlocking circles representing the five continents-was slowly raised. Outside the stadium, guns boomed. Atop the staircase at the East gate appeared the last runner...
...shorts. When made by governments, as most documentary films are, they are usually interlarded with propaganda. Typical were the pictures shown along with The Plow That Broke the Plains in Washington's Mayflower last fortnight: an excerpt from The Triumph of the Will, directed for Adolf Hitler by Leni Riefenstahl (TIME, Feb. 7); an institutional reel called Midi dealing with the French railways; a Russian Harvest Festival which depicts the Ukraine as a merry place; Color Box and The Face of Britain, respectively glorifying the British Post Office and the social effect of water power...