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Leni's filming of the Olympic Regatta - shows the triumph over all the odds of "The Boys in the Boat" - the Washington State crew that set the world alight (read the brilliant book). The GB 8 was stroked by the father of Hugh Laurie (0f "House" fame - and also an Oxford Blue) - the British techique in those days allowed the stroke a smaller blade on the basis that he had to work harder - needless to say this proved somewhat ineffective! Anyway - this was all yet to come... We are very necessarily in 1935, not 1936, as you will discover....
 
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Leni's filming of the Olympic Regatta - It shows the triumph over all the odds of "The Boys in the Boat" - the Washington State crew that set the world alight (read the brilliant book). The GB 8 was stroked by the father of Hugh Laurie (0f "House" fame - and also an Oxford Blue) - the British techique in those days allowed the stroke a smaller blade on the basis that he had to work harder - needless to say this proved somewhat ineffective! Anyway - this was all yet to come... We are very necessarily in 1935, not 1936, as you will discover....
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The in-boat sequences were filmed by Leni the day after the finals with the actual crews! Amazing!!
 
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The in-boat sequences were filmed by Leni the day after the finals with the actual crews! Amazing!!
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I think she was known for filming and re-filming action scenes after the fact in order to get them right...some of the scenes in Triumph of the Will were staged repeatedly, and little crowd scene vignettes inserted for effect. She was masterful in her filming.
 
Barbaria1 said:
I think she was known for filming and re-filming action scenes after the fact in order to get them right...some of the scenes in Triumph of the Will were staged repeatedly, and little crowd scene vignettes inserted for effect. She was masterful in her filming.
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For another famous re-enactment go to 4:10 to see Soviet troops replay their linking up as part of Operation Uranus. Leni was far from the only filmmaker to resort to such tactics in that era when cameras were fewer, bulkier and less effective than they are now.
 
Barbaria1 said:
Sure ... why not, and you can blame me....just so long as it isn't a crucifiable offense...I have enough of them already:rolleyes:
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Blame is really the wrong word....i could never blame Barbs...i really should have said "we have Barbs to thank for this little diversion" - we both sort of like Leniflower1......
 
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....and, as it goes with these things, when you search around you find so many fascinating things... So forgive me for posting another version, with some wonderful footage. It is trite to say, but the Germans not only had the finest uniforms, courtesy of the designs and manufacturing of Hugo Boss AG, but also the most wonderful music... as you would expect from that nation of high culture. I think we should sometimes just try to hear, behind the horrors we associate with these sounds today, the sheer excitement that would have filled the hearts of so many ordinary Germans in the 1930s, and that filled the reception rooms in Gustav-Adolf-Straße 1 on that fine summer's evening in 1935....


But remember, nothing stays the same. No happiness can last. Night must fall.
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The Devil always gets the best tunes!

We're all too used to the awful truth of what came after -
images of the horrors are so familiar they hardly touch us,
but that video has (honestly) brought me to tears -
the looks of hope, joy, idealism on those young faces,
in a nation that believed its face had been rubbed in shit at Versailles,
and crapped on by its own incompetent and corrupt rulers since,
that kid crying (like I am now) when it's her turn to shake hands with Der Führer,
Mein Gott, if they'd known what was coming....​
 
Eulalia said:
The Devil always gets the best tunes!

We're all too used to the awful truth of what came after -
images of the horrors are so familiar they hardly touch us,
but that video has (honestly) brought me to tears -
the looks of hope, joy, idealism on those young faces,
in a nation that believed its face had been rubbed in shit at Versailles,
and crapped on by its own incompetent and corrupt rulers since,
that kid crying (like I am now) when it's her turn to shake hands with Der Führer,
Mein Gott, if they'd known what was coming....​
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You have made me cry - you understand - it felt normal, even more, it felt like summer...thank you
 
RacingRodent said:
For another famous re-enactment go to 4:10 to see Soviet troops replay their linking up as part of Operation Uranus. Leni was far from the only filmmaker to resort to such tactics in that era when cameras were fewer, bulkier and less effective than they are now.
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I don't suppose he was directly involved,
but the influence of another great film-maker is obvious
in those wide, panning battle-shots on the snow -
Sergei Eisenstein!

 
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Great filming, wonderful score... But it never happened... There you go. Instead Russia was captured in a coup and they proceded to outdo Hitler in murdering fellow people (i avoid saying " citizens" )...,but i guess in the end Mao won that one.... But look inder the surface of the film and you will see the child and the exploited jew and there is Eisenstein's deep and true artistic humanity..,,, :). Pooof - i am tired....
 
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