Recherche dans la collection - Swifter, Higher, Stronger

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: VIDEOTAPE RECYCLING

1985-0397

Vidéo

1968-09-27

1968-10-02

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

producer/director, Douglas Gillingham; executive producer, Ron Hunka; narrator, Peter Elkington; Elwood Glover; J. Frank Willis; Alan McFee.

Peter Elkington hosts the second of three specials on the Olympic Games. SWIFTER, HIGHER, STRONGER is a pictoral history of the modern Olympic Games from their revival in Athens, Greece in 1896 to the Rome Olympiad of 1960. Noteworthy archival footage of: the 1896 Games in Athens where 12 countries competed; the Fox Movietone newsreel footage of the 1932 Los Angeles Games showing the first Olympic Village; and the 1936 Games in Berlin with Adolph Hitler taking the salute from the athletes; and clips of black athlete Jesse Owens of the USA, regarded as the best Olympic athlete ever. Also included is archival footage depicting historical news events such as the Wright Brothers' "flying machine"; the death of Lenin; and the Charles Lindberg kidnapping case. <90mn : 865-1872>

ATHLETES~OLYMPICS~SPORTS~OLYMPIC GAMES <10TH : 1932 : LOS ANGELES, CALIF.>~OLYMPIC GAMES <11TH : 1936 : BERLIN, GERMANY>~OLYMPIC GAMES <1ST : 1896 : ATHENS, GREECE>~ELKINGTON, PETER~OWENS, JESSE

English

61-2-1615-8001M

Libre

V1 8510-0018

GAD 0FD547

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