Research work - searching for archival footage of any subject - is a daily work for all television archives worldwide. It is an important task for media librarians to find old shots, old programmes forgotten and hidden in the archive. The introduction of new technology - the policy of digitalization of the collections of television programmes transmitted - has made the work easier than when you had to read the old cards in the card catalogue.I call the work film hunting because I appreciate to view
old movies lost and forgotten and out of date so to speak. Recently I bought an old move called: " BATTLE FORCE ". I bought the film because many famous actors are playing in the film. Names like: John Huston, Henry Fonda, Helmut Berger and Stacy Keach - just to mention some. The film is dealing with the Second World War and the
1936 Olympic Games in Germany, Berlin.The film hunter was in action hoping to find some forgotten shots. I was right. The historical introduction of the subject dealt with in the movie is made by using old German news reels. Even a shot of a German
aircraft passing close to trees is used. The footage has been used to illustrate the
German invasion of Norway in 1940 in Norwegian made war programmes many times!
But my interest this time was the archival footage of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Only 40 seconds are used. We see the official opening of the summer games in
Berlin. Adolf Hitler is attending the games. Shots from different sport activities
like running fast. Why pay attention to 40 seconds of old sport shots? Is the name
Leni Riefenstahl familiar to you? The IOC commissioned her to produce a documentary
about the 1936 Berlin Olympic games. The film was released in 1938 after having been
edited for about 18 months. The film became a standard for all future sports documentaries for a long time. The film OLYMPIA was a non pro German film even if
Goebbels put pressure on the producer to make that kind of film. Shots of Jesse Owens
were used even if the German disliked that an American non white runner was the winner. Leni Riefenstahl is still famous for her film called: " TRIUMPH OF THE WILL "
produced in 1934 dealing with the September Nurnberg Party rally.
WHAT ABOUT THE OLD AND FORGOTTEN MOVIE I BOUGHT?
Frankly speaking, the film is not a good one. Sorry. You will find the movie by searching the following titles: THE BIGGEST BATTLE, IL GRANDE ATTACO, DIE GROSSE
OFFENSIVE and BATTLE FORCE. The movie was released in 1977/78. A story of how WWII
affected the living of a German and and American family.Splendid actors doing the best to make the film a good one. The archival footage is the winner this time and for me it was a good hunting!
For those of you who want to view shots from the Olympic summer games in Berlin in 1936 -buy the film.
old movies lost and forgotten and out of date so to speak. Recently I bought an old move called: " BATTLE FORCE ". I bought the film because many famous actors are playing in the film. Names like: John Huston, Henry Fonda, Helmut Berger and Stacy Keach - just to mention some. The film is dealing with the Second World War and the
1936 Olympic Games in Germany, Berlin.The film hunter was in action hoping to find some forgotten shots. I was right. The historical introduction of the subject dealt with in the movie is made by using old German news reels. Even a shot of a German
aircraft passing close to trees is used. The footage has been used to illustrate the
German invasion of Norway in 1940 in Norwegian made war programmes many times!
But my interest this time was the archival footage of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Only 40 seconds are used. We see the official opening of the summer games in
Berlin. Adolf Hitler is attending the games. Shots from different sport activities
like running fast. Why pay attention to 40 seconds of old sport shots? Is the name
Leni Riefenstahl familiar to you? The IOC commissioned her to produce a documentary
about the 1936 Berlin Olympic games. The film was released in 1938 after having been
edited for about 18 months. The film became a standard for all future sports documentaries for a long time. The film OLYMPIA was a non pro German film even if
Goebbels put pressure on the producer to make that kind of film. Shots of Jesse Owens
were used even if the German disliked that an American non white runner was the winner. Leni Riefenstahl is still famous for her film called: " TRIUMPH OF THE WILL "
produced in 1934 dealing with the September Nurnberg Party rally.
WHAT ABOUT THE OLD AND FORGOTTEN MOVIE I BOUGHT?
Frankly speaking, the film is not a good one. Sorry. You will find the movie by searching the following titles: THE BIGGEST BATTLE, IL GRANDE ATTACO, DIE GROSSE
OFFENSIVE and BATTLE FORCE. The movie was released in 1977/78. A story of how WWII
affected the living of a German and and American family.Splendid actors doing the best to make the film a good one. The archival footage is the winner this time and for me it was a good hunting!
For those of you who want to view shots from the Olympic summer games in Berlin in 1936 -buy the film.
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