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  1. Hitler’s Olympia - The Nazi Olympics 1936 (1936 Video)

    aka: Olympische Spiele

    Director
    Leni Riefenstahl
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, 2 videocassettes. VHS. b&w. 204 min., 1995 sale: £14.99 (inclusive)

    In 1935 Leni Riefenstahl was approached by the president of the German Olympic Committee to make a film of the 1936 Berlin games, which were being staged by Goebbels as a giant propaganda exercise. Using 44...

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  2. Berlin (1927 Film)

    Director
    Walter Ruttman
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    One of the best-known early documentaries. Shows a day’s life in Berlin. Impressionistic in form, it was subtitled ‘Symphony of a Great City’.

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  3. Adventures of Prince Achmed, The (1926 Video)

    Director
    Lotte Reiniger
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL), £11.99

    Based on tales from ‘The Arabian Nights’ this is one of the first full-length animated films in the history of cinema. It uses silhouette animation, based on the ancient Chinese and Indonesian art of...

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