Word: riefenstahl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first-rate record of the Olympics is concerned, Rank's monopoly of the shooting may be all to the good. Only thus, perhaps, with all cameras under single control, will it be possible to do for the London games what Leni Riefenstahl did for Berlin...
...Riefenstahl's Olympische Spiele, for all its fake slants and supermanic chest-beating, was by far the best and most exhaustive sports record ever put on film. She used 40 to 60 cameras with a fine, eye for crisis and sidelight, pageantry and crowd, and assembled them with one of the world's most striking talents for cutting. To handle Britain's film, Rank has hired bouncing, white-haired little Castleton Knight, 54, head of Gaumont British News, who did the Technicolor films of the royal wedding and the royal wedding presents...
Kings of the Olympics. Leni Riefenstahl's grandly photographed study of the 1936 Olympic Games, trimmed down for U.S. moviegoers (TIME...
Kings of the Olympics. Leni Riefenstahl's grandly photographed study of the 1936 Olympic Games, trimmed down for U.S. moviegoers (TIME...
Hitler demanded a German victory in the 1936 Olympic games, and got it. He also demanded a film record of the victory for propaganda purposes, and got more than that. Olympische Spiele, produced by Hitler's favorite moviemaker, redheaded Leni Riefenstahl (and some 600 technicians), turned out to be a magnificent documentary film...