My father, Mario Prodan ,(an Italian living in Peking, China) was 'all-china diving champion', but was refused access to these Olympics for not posessing an Italian Fascist Party Card, (something Mussolini made a priority for all Italian participants). Much to his woe, and to that of the Italian Olympic diving team, he was NOT invited! But his father REFUSED to let him 'sign up'
Loved seeing this ... right up there with Klaus Di Biasi's footage of Greg Lougainis and Donna Weyland, 1982 Ecuador (also on youtube: 1982 i migliori tuffi). So sad that with all the improvements in technology for recording now all we get is the same old same old in terms of camera angles and the obligatory unimaginative slow mo replay.
In a documentary film class in college, on successive nights, we were required to view both Olympia and Triumph of the Will. Then evaluate each for their documentary vs propoganda effectiveness, as a final exam. Jew or Gentile though a person may be, the absolute genius of these two films is absolute! this diving sequence is particularly spectacular!
@DrAlexisOlson Aye, I'm a diver now and it's amazing how much the sport has changed. The past 30 years saw ridiculous progress, not to mention the 74 years since this film. But without today's Duraflex boards, or being able to rip, these guys couldn't and shouldn't be expected to measure against current divers. Anyway, great film.
Three of the shots were done in reverse; I've often wondered what Riefenstahl could have accomplished with faster, color film, stedicam and Panavision. One shot is in such slow motion that camera must've been running like an out-of-control locomotive!
@THESATURNSSC1 you have way less control over the way you enter the water, and you can pike save when doing a hand first entry, causing there to be a lot less splash. Also the dives just look way nicer going hands first.
THESATURNSSC1 I think it’s just been the natural progression of the sport, people started trying harder and harder dives and the competition got a lot more intense, which meant that divers needed to make the dives look cleaner and score higher. feet first entry just stopped being popular because they were too hard to “rip” (what divers call it when they get no splash)
What? A response to one of my few impulse posts to You Tube?! This event was one of my more lasting memories in grad school (mid 1970's). The professor (old by then) had worked in the German film industry and with the director of both movies in his youth. He appropriated copies of the films at the end of the war. Interesting person, history, and class, to say the least.
No, this camera work is by Leni Riefenstahl. She is the one who created magnificent public-relations films that showed the Nazis as superstars and unbeatable. Look up some more of her work; she did it for the art and I don't think she was even a Nazi.
yea.... I've seen that.... but the changed techniques over the years and equiptment has had to a large degree changed that.....there was a much wider arch of the old springboard divers than witht he modern equiptment... the old wood diving boards (which I'm old enough to say I've dived off of) :) were much more work to get a respons from.. the re worked Durafelx equipment has allowed a greater power with a much smoother technique....
Yes. Back then, it was all about "what you can do while in the air". The landing didn't matter. Now, they scrutinize *everything* - body positioning, toe point, type of dive, entry, and more.
lol @ 10 meter, they didn't even do anything. And off of 3 meter, I just dropped half of those off my list for higher DD on 1 meter. I dive one season, and split a 1 hour practice with swimming because I'm on relays. Just goes to show you how times have changed in 80 years
They really should make a movie in English about her life. So much talent and so much innovation ruined by trusting someone that tells you what you want to hear.
Pretty nice dives back then, but they wouldn't even get average points today, absolutely NO splash on entry is what they are looking for, plus required perfect body positions all the way to entry. Not even one bent toe off! And judges have INSTANT replay today, if any part of it is questioned.
Rammstein useed this for one of their Songs but they not Nazis. They had done it because their Song Stripped and this Video are together something magical. watch?v=Qb_Sfq6spbk
None of these guys seems to have body hair; also you'd get into pretty good shape just climbing that tower all the time. The is one of the few places in Berlin the Allies didn't bomb or shell the shit out of.
MOST swimmers and divers shave. It's not QUITE as common with divers anymore, but it is still very popular with the swimmers. Less drag = better entries (divers) and less drag (swimmers).
what a world of difference between then and now. The Diving World has advanced dramatically World politics still have their thumb where it doesn't belong.
Started as a propaganda film, true; but when Hitler walked out in disgust (the "master race" were losing to guys like Jesse Owens) Riefenstahl was given creative license to do whatever she wanted. Hence, things getting interesting in the editing room. Thanks for posting.
wow, whoever uploaded this must be pretty old themselves to have owned a camera at the time and then the ability to post it here, unless the person just borrowed grandmas tape
Saya Mau Sport Divingnya untuk Pria atau Cowoknya ditayangkan tgl 5 Februari hari Senin yang lalu untuk akhir bulan Februari ini dan awal bulan Maret Mendatang untuk awal dan akhir tahun 1996 ini dan awal tahun 1997 nanti biasanya saja lagi iya deh.
is that not the entire purpose of the whole Olympic games? even today. To represent Man, as in predominantly men (male), as beautiful and perfect athletic bodies. I think it is a substitute for the inability of men to display their erections to intimidate, so they compete in sports instead.
I think I speak for everyone when I say, you have just really, really embarrassed yourself with your lack of ability to spell, understand history or eek out a cogent sentence, LOL. PS I'm damn proud to be of the white race!
I think i speak for everyone when i say [insert : here instead of ,] you have just really [deleted for use of redundant, second grade expressions] embarrassed yourself with your lack of ability to spell, understand history [insert comma here for parallel sentence structure] or [eke not eek] out a cogent sentence. [deleted for caps and coherence] PS. Try not to embarrass yourself too much when trying to sound intelligent.
One of the greatest sequences in documentary film making, ever.
My father, Mario Prodan ,(an Italian living in Peking, China) was 'all-china diving champion', but was refused access to these Olympics for not posessing an Italian Fascist Party Card, (something Mussolini made a priority for all Italian participants). Much to his woe, and to that of the Italian Olympic diving team, he was NOT invited!
But his father REFUSED to let him 'sign up'
80 years later the shiit STILL holds up. The low angles to make the athletes appear godlike is genius
Quite simply the best photographed and best edited (to music) sequence from a live sporting event ever.
Tausend Dank für die herrlichen Aufnahmen! Sie zeugen von einem hohen ästethischen Gefühl für männliche Bewegungskraft und elastischen Formwillen!
Loved seeing this ... right up there with Klaus Di Biasi's footage of Greg Lougainis and Donna Weyland, 1982 Ecuador (also on youtube: 1982 i migliori tuffi). So sad that with all the improvements in technology for recording now all we get is the same old same old in terms of camera angles and the obligatory unimaginative slow mo replay.
There's no two ways about it..Leni,the lady behind the lens, was amazing.
In a documentary film class in college, on successive nights, we were required to view both Olympia and Triumph of the Will. Then evaluate each for their documentary vs propoganda effectiveness, as a final exam. Jew or Gentile though a person may be, the absolute genius of these two films is absolute! this diving sequence is particularly spectacular!
@DrAlexisOlson Aye, I'm a diver now and it's amazing how much the sport has changed. The past 30 years saw ridiculous progress, not to mention the 74 years since this film. But without today's Duraflex boards, or being able to rip, these guys couldn't and shouldn't be expected to measure against current divers.
Anyway, great film.
Die Ästhetik des Auerbachsaltos kommt hier besonders zur Geltung.
Enjoyed this video, thumbs up from us and cheers from sunny IGY Simpson Bay Marina, Sint Maarten in the Caribbean.
Three of the shots were done in reverse; I've often wondered what Riefenstahl could have accomplished with faster, color film, stedicam and Panavision.
One shot is in such slow motion that camera must've been running like an out-of-control locomotive!
its funny because now you cant even make the county national team with some of these dives anymore
For me, it was the feet first entries that made it odd. I need to research when they stopped allowing that....
MystiqueRisingSun they still allow it, it’s just way harder to get good scores on dives going feet first
@THESATURNSSC1 you have way less control over the way you enter the water, and you can pike save when doing a hand first entry, causing there to be a lot less splash. Also the dives just look way nicer going hands first.
THESATURNSSC1 I think it’s just been the natural progression of the sport, people started trying harder and harder dives and the competition got a lot more intense, which meant that divers needed to make the dives look cleaner and score higher. feet first entry just stopped being popular because they were too hard to “rip” (what divers call it when they get no splash)
I was a springboard diver in the sixties, not even national grade, let alone international, and this was pretty much my standard.
I never knew diving was this old . But certainly diving never lost its touch . But the flips and turns the divers did during this time
3:04 - TRIPPIN' BALLS
It’s a reverse version
Their tuck form was beautiful. We don't see that anymore
We see better
This video brings back memories
Great music
What? A response to one of my few impulse posts to You Tube?! This event was one of my more lasting memories in grad school (mid 1970's). The professor (old by then) had worked in the German film industry and with the director of both movies in his youth. He appropriated copies of the films at the end of the war. Interesting person, history, and class, to say the least.
You're absolutely right.
hahahaha the guy doing the reverse dive at 3:58 is going to smack hard core :O
this is awesome! thankyou for posting it. please do not delte it!
This is so much better than the stuff today.
Magic.Magic of superior human!
pretty dope ngl fam
No, this camera work is by Leni Riefenstahl. She is the one who created magnificent public-relations films that showed the Nazis as superstars and unbeatable. Look up some more of her work; she did it for the art and I don't think she was even a Nazi.
cameras in 1936....caught really good motion pictures...
yea.... I've seen that.... but the changed techniques over the years and equiptment has had to a large degree changed that.....there was a much wider arch of the old springboard divers than witht he modern equiptment... the old wood diving boards (which I'm old enough to say I've dived off of) :) were much more work to get a respons from.. the re worked Durafelx equipment has allowed a greater power with a much smoother technique....
wow so much has changed since 1936
can't be more recent than 30's, not with those funky forward dive half twists.
it seems as though the diving nowadays has been perfected more than what it used to be, e.g. the big splashes.
Yes. Back then, it was all about "what you can do while in the air". The landing didn't matter. Now, they scrutinize *everything* - body positioning, toe point, type of dive, entry, and more.
Great
lol @ 10 meter, they didn't even do anything.
And off of 3 meter, I just dropped half of those off my list for higher DD on 1 meter.
I dive one season, and split a 1 hour practice with swimming because I'm on relays. Just goes to show you how times have changed in 80 years
2:36 WTF?!?!?!?!
nvrted what about it?
lol I like the 106C on 3m springboard
While I'm only a stills photographer I reckon it's real...just a lot of modern editing. But a very good piece of work.
actually the chinese dude that does the platform reverse.... rips pretty well!
Water was much more watery in these days.
woot. pulling out the forward pike dive with a 1/2 twist at 51. it makes me look like i have worked hard. haha
i dont know about you but i'd only compete 106c on 3m for $50.
They really should make a movie in English about her life. So much talent and so much innovation ruined by trusting someone that tells you what you want to hear.
Pretty nice dives back then, but they wouldn't even get average points today, absolutely NO splash on entry is what they are looking for, plus required perfect body positions all the way to entry. Not even one bent toe off! And judges have INSTANT replay today, if any part of it is questioned.
I don't care for Riefenstahl films; she had no sense of humor let alone irony.
Still, on every other level she was a great film-maker.
worst guy
Rammstein useed this for one of their Songs but they not Nazis.
They had done it because their Song Stripped and this Video are together something magical.
watch?v=Qb_Sfq6spbk
Do you have an HD version?
None of these guys seems to have body hair; also you'd get into pretty good shape just climbing that tower all the time.
The is one of the few places in Berlin the Allies didn't bomb or shell the shit out of.
MOST swimmers and divers shave. It's not QUITE as common with divers anymore, but it is still very popular with the swimmers. Less drag = better entries (divers) and less drag (swimmers).
what a world of difference between then and now. The Diving World has advanced dramatically World politics still have their thumb where it doesn't belong.
is that on tv because in the 30s,40s,50s and early 60s are greyscale
.....read the title....
and the 5112D at 2:15
Started as a propaganda film, true; but when Hitler walked out in disgust (the "master race" were losing to guys like Jesse Owens) Riefenstahl was given creative license to do whatever she wanted.
Hence, things getting interesting in the editing room. Thanks for posting.
In case you didn't know, the "master race" won these Olympics by a huge margin.
The 1936 Olympic games introduced the Tourch and 5 Olympic rings, Nazi symbols still in use!
Es una prueba de que Leni era de raza superior ? Quien la supera? Obvio nadie
wow, whoever uploaded this must be pretty old themselves to have owned a camera at the time and then the ability to post it here, unless the person just borrowed grandmas tape
the standard was so low...
@wc213 i know right now it seems they take it to far and have no passion for it
hahaha...its so funny how bad they are compared to how good people are now
Saya Mau Sport Divingnya untuk Pria atau Cowoknya ditayangkan tgl 5 Februari hari Senin yang lalu untuk akhir bulan Februari ini dan awal bulan Maret Mendatang untuk awal dan akhir tahun 1996 ini dan awal tahun 1997 nanti biasanya saja lagi iya deh.
@wc213 haha yeah i could have won back then
2:10
is that not the entire purpose of the whole Olympic games? even today. To represent Man, as in predominantly men (male), as beautiful and perfect athletic bodies. I think it is a substitute for the inability of men to display their erections to intimidate, so they compete in sports instead.
its crazy how bad their technique used to be, im better than most of them, but then again they were required to do 101a 201a 301a 401a and 5111d
AHAHAHHAAHAH, MMH DIFFICULT!
LOL
ill own u
im from CT
lol no. we have so much better technique today,
I think I speak for everyone when I say, you have just really, really embarrassed yourself with your lack of ability to spell, understand history or eek out a cogent sentence, LOL.
PS I'm damn proud to be of the white race!
I think i speak for everyone when i say [insert : here instead of ,] you have just really [deleted for use of redundant, second grade expressions] embarrassed yourself with your lack of ability to spell, understand history [insert comma here for parallel sentence structure] or [eke not eek] out a cogent sentence. [deleted for caps and coherence]
PS. Try not to embarrass yourself too much when trying to sound intelligent.