#1936 berlin olympics

[godwantsit]

#olympics #olympic games #poster #moscow 1980 #berlin 1936 #boycott #graphic design

[illustratus]

XI. Olympische Spiele Berlin 1936 | XI Olympic Games Berlin 1936

Ich rufe die Jugend der Welt! I Call the Youth of the World!

#olympics #berlin #germany #1936 summer olympics #1936 olympics #olympic games #german #europe #european #olympiad #olympiade #olympische spiele #olympia #olympians #leni riefenstahl #history #sports #athletes #athletics #olympische sommerspiele 1936 #xi olympiad #xi olympiade #summer olympics #summer olympic games #laurel wreath

[seventh-victim]

spectators at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (photo: Erich Andres)

#black and white photography #berlin olympics 1936 #erich andres

[aiiaiiiyo]

#track star Jesse Owens #son of a sharecropper and grandson of slaves #won 4 Olympic golds at the 1936 Berlin Olympics #shattering the Nazi myth of Aryan supremacy. #Paul-Belgium #oldschool

[tmblrfuckingsucksass]

1936 Berlin Summer Olympics Poster

#poster art #olympic games #1936 summer olympics #berlin #germany #deutschland

[stone-cold-groove]

Vintage poster from 1936 - XI Olympiade, Berlin u. Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

#vintage posters #vintage illustration #olympics #1936 olympics #berlin olympics #olympic games

[thebarroomortheboy]

"Olympia: The Festival of Beauty" is a celebration of the human form. Where the two-part epic's first half, "Olympia: Festival of the Nations," focused on the international aspects of the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin, this film concentrates on individual athletes such as equestrians, gymnasts and swimmers, climaxing with American Glenn Morris' performance in the decathalon and the majestic closing ceremonies of the games."

Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty | Original title: Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit (1938)

dir. Leni Riefenstahl

#documentary #sport #german cinema #1930's cinema #1930's documentary #1930's films #docu #leni riefenstahl #1938 docu #1938 documentary #berlin 1936 #1936 olympics #olympics #olympic games #filmgifs #documentaryedit #sportedit #1001 movies you must watch before you die by steven schneider #Olympia: The Festival of Beauty

[darshanan-blog]

Boys in a Boat: Movie Review

When I read Daniel James Brown’s acclaimed book “Boys in a Boat”, I fell in love with rowing. When I saw the movie by the same name, I fell in love with Callum Turner who gives a thoughtful, heartrending performance as Joe Rantz. Many interesting details from the book are missing in the movie but it is just as inspirational and elegant. Drawing on the true events from newspaper articles, photos,…

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#Berlin #Boys in a Boat #Callum Turner #Coach Ulbrickson #Courtney Henggeler #Daniel James Brown #Hazel #in Hitler #Joe Rantz. George Clooney #Joel Edgerton #Mark Smith. Joe Rantz #movie #Summer Olympics of 1936 #University of Washington

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

On this day, August 1 in 1936, the Summer Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler. This Olympiad had a number of its own milestones: it was the first to be televised; noted German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl was commissioned to produce the documentary Olympia, which pioneered many of the techniques now common in the filming of sports; Hitler used the games as an opportunity to showcase his government’s racist and antisemitic policies; and Black American athlete Jesse Owens won four gold medals in the sprint and long jump events as a middle finger in the eye of those policies. 

The opening ceremony featured a flyover by the German airship Hindenburg flying the Olympic flag behind it, and a lot of Hitler glorification. The American novelist Thomas Wolfe was present and observed that the opening was an "almost religious event, the crowd screaming, swaying in unison and begging for Hitler. There was something scary about it; his cult of personality." The opening wasn’t without its absurdly humorous moment however. Toward the end, 25,000 pigeons were released over the stadium, dramatically captured by Riefenstahl in her film. At the same time, cannons were fired, apparently terrifying the circling army of pigeons, which proceeded to release a barrage of pigeon poop on the upward-looking spectators.

This souvenir publication, Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung: Olympia-Sonderheft, was a special issue of the weekly German illustrated magazine Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, published by Ullstein Verlag and produced on June 16, 1936, featuring over 90 fully-illustrated pages.

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#Milestone Monday #August 1 #Summer Olympics #1936 Summer Olympics #XI Olympiad #Berlin 1936 #Nazi Olympics #Nazis #Adolf Hitler #pigeon poop #opening ceremony #Leni Riefenstahl #Jesse Owens #Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung #Ullstein Verlag

[jloisse]

🔴 Capitaine Eric Winkle Brown - Hitler a serré la main de Jesse Owens et l'a félicité.

🔴 Captain Eric Winkle Brown - Hitler shook hands with Jesse Owens and congratulated him.

#jesse owens #adolf hitler #hitler #jeux olympiques #berlin 1936 #olympics

[drawingwithlight]

STRENGTH, 1936 BY LENI RIEFENSTAHL

(The model is American athlete Glenn Morris. He won the Gold Medal in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. It was rumored he and Leni had an affair. Morris later played Tarzan in one film.)

#photography #LENI RIEFENSTAHL #Glenn Morris #tarzan #1936 Olympics #Berlin

[frank-o-meter]

Cornelius Johnson, First Black Athlete to Win a Gold Medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Photo by Margaret Bourke-White, 1936

#Cornelius Johnson #athlete #african american #Berlin Olympics #1936 #Margaret Bourke-White #gold medal

[dirjoh-blog]

1936 Berlin Olympics

“The sportive, knightly battle awakens the best human characteristics. It doesn’t separate, but unites the combatants in understanding and respect. It also helps to connect the countries in the spirit of peace. That’s why the Olympic Flame should never die.” One could be forgiven for thinking that the words above were uttered by someone who had noble intentions. However, you’d be wrong those…

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#1936 Olympic Games #Angelina Jolie #Berlin #History #Holocaust #Pre WWI #Propaganda #Unbroken #World War 2

[aiiaiiiyo]

#Nazi Germany 1936 #Jesse Owens won four gold medals in the Berlin Olympics in front of Adolf Hitler #Non-FungibleMan #oldschool

[nekropsii]

Let this be a living example that knowing the beliefs of any individual who wrote any piece of text- be it literature, articles, or posts- can and should drastically alter your perception on what the text is actually communicating, even if that knowledge has, on its face, changed none of the actual printed words. This is how application of real-world context works, and this is how it applies to any recorded medium.

It reminds me heavily of a quote from video essayist Jacob Geller, regarding the 1938 film Olympia- "It's different when Nazis do it". Olympia is a film that, on its face, simply depicts an artistic documentation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. But within the context of its production taking place during the Nazi regime, with its director being a well known Nazi propagandist... The way the movie fixates on the power and elegance of the human form and Ancient Greek statues quickly shifts from being completely innocuous appreciation to the worship of what is perceived as the ideal forms of the "Aryan race". Suddenly, you understand the movie not to be a pretty inoffensive documentation of a historical event, but a propaganda piece.

Understanding the time period in which something was made, as well as the setting it was produced in/for, and whatever ideologies an artist may hold and experiences they've had is absolutely critical to getting a full understanding of anyone's work. There are some things that are near completely anodyne on their face, but the revelation of what the author thinks and feels about other people and the world around them totally redefines every word on the page.

This image is such a prime example of why context matters. This opinion, laid bare, stripped of context, is both inoffensive and nonsensical. No one's ever thought it to be lame to create your own nickname... But on its own, that's a harmless kind of wrong. ... But with the addition of them being marked as Anti-Trans (red) on Shinigami Eyes, a browser extension dedicated to crowdsourcing keeping track of Trans Friendly and Transphobic creators... Suddenly, "Nicknames" doesn't mean "Nicknames" anymore. Suddenly, you realize that "Nicknames" is code for "Chosen Names of Trans People". Suddenly this isn't about thinking choosing your own nickname is lame, this is about thinking that trans people shouldn't have the right to name themselves. Suddenly it's about invalidating identities, thinking they're worth mocking. Thinking that people who identify as trans are "just trying to be cool", and that they're not actually what they say they are, because you don't get to choose your gender nickname, that's something already decided for you.

Suddenly, you realize, it's not about "being lame".

It's about Transphobic Violence.

This is why you cannot ignore when an artist, author, essayist, developer, musician- so on and so forth- is bigoted. This is why you can't ignore the context behind their upbringing. This is why you can't ignore the context behind their lived experience, their ideals, their goals, their message. Yes, it may appear innocent on its face. Yes, it may look fine stripped from the context of it being written by an inevitably flawed human being. But what's really being said here? What do those words mean... To the one who wrote them?

Context redefines Text.

Even if the words didn't change.

#this post is a bit random. not apologizing. it was just such a perfect encapsulation #i am still tagging this as homestuck because this is ultimately EXACTLY how i feel about hussie + their works. you must understand this. #its so applicable to hussie + homestuck + analysis of homestuck that it is fucking painful. PLEASE understand this. PLEASEEEE #homestuck #homestuck meta #homestuck analysis #andrew hussie #context #literary analysis #essay writing #cw nazi #cw transphobia #nekro.pdf #nekro.txt

[stone-cold-groove]

Handy Guide-Map Through Berlin. Issued for the Games of the XI Olympiad - 1936 Summer Olympics.

#vintage maps #1936 olympics #berlin #germany #berlin olympics #the 30s #1936 #xi olympiad #summer olympics