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THE FILM OF THE 11TH OLYMPIC GAMES BERLIN, 1936

DEDICATED TO THE FOUNDER OF THE MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES

TO THE HONOUR AND GLORY OF THE YOUTH OF THE WORLD

PRODUCED BY

MUSIC BY

Festival Of The Nations

I proclaim

the Olympic Games of Berlin

celebrating the Eleventh Olympiad of the modern era

Open!

The Olympic games have started.

The world’s best have come to Berlin. 51 nations will fight for victory.

The Olympic discus throwing starts with

Carpenter, USA

Out

Schroeder The German with the world record

47.22

The Norwegian, Soerli

48.77

Sillas, Greece

47.75

The second American, Dunn

49.36

Berg, Swden

47.22

Ling, China

Out

Noel, France

44.56

Reich, Germany

45.10

Oberweger, Italy

49.23

For the last time, Schroeder, Germany

Only 47.93 meters again

Now Carpenter

50.48

Victory and gold medal for America

Discus throwing, women.

The Polish girl Wajsowna is the chief opponent

for the German Gisela Mauermayer who holds the world record

43.54

Now the Japanese girl, Toshima

33.50

Wajsowna from Poland

44.69

more than a meter further than Gisela Mauermayer

Sivarova from Czechoslovakia

Exactly 34 meters

Mineshima, Japan

37.35

Paula Mollenhauer, Germany

39.80

Gisela Mauermayer

41.64

Wajsowna, Poland

46.22

The Polish girl is still in the lead

The last chance for Gisela Mauermayer

46.63

New Olympic record Gold medal for Germany

Javelin throw, women

It will be between Liesel Krüger, Germany,

Maria Kwasniewska, Poland and Tilly Fleischer, Germany

In the last series: Krüger

41.29

The Polish girl

41.80

Tilly Fleischer

45.18

Gold and silver medals for Germany, Poland third

Hurdles 80 meter, women elimination heat

Hurdles 80 meter, women, in the final we have

Valla and Testoni, Italy

Taylor, Canada Braaketer, Holland

Steuer and Eckert, Germany

Testoni is fast, the first to jump over the hurdles,

Taylor from Canada comes to the front,

Valla, Italy and Steuer side by side, but Valla finishes first.

First, Valla Italy,

Second, Steuer Germany

Third, Taylor Canada

In the hammer throwing, two Germans made it to the final,

to face Warngård from Sweden.

Now Rowe, USA

51.66

Hein, Germany

54.70

Hein is in the lead

Warngård, Sweden

54.83

13cm more than Hein

Blask, Germany

54.10

Koutonen, Finland

51.90

Hein, Germany

54.85, recaptured the lead

And now, the last up Sweden

53.30

Blask, Germany

55.04

A fantastic throw, new Olympic Record

Germany in the lead

Hein is throwing for the last time

Even further, 56.49

German double victory in the hammer throwing,

third Warngård, Sweden

100 meter heat

The fastest sprinter of America, Jesse Owens, at the start

Owens wins in 10.4 seconds

In the next heat, the strongest sprinters are

Borchmayer, Germany McFee, Canada

Berger, Holland and Sweeney, England

Borchmayer wins in 10.5 seconds

10.20, world record ....

Due to a following wind, not accepted

The final of the 100 meters

The six fastest sprinters in the world take part

Borchmeyer,

Wykoff,

Owens,

Strandberg, Osendarp and Metcalfe

Owens is already in the front, Strandberg behind him,

Osendarp tries with all his might,

Metcalfe sprints.

Winner in the 100 meters, Jesse Owens

Women's high jump

The crossbar is set at 1.40 meters

Jumping now is Bell, Canada

Carter, Australia

Dorothy Odam, England

Elfriede Kaun, Germany

Csak, Hungary

The bar is now set at 1.55 meters

Arden, USA

3rd shot

She's out

Koen, Holland

Dora Ratjen, Germany

Bell, Canada

again, she failed twice

She's out

The bar is now set at 1.60 meters

The first attempt by Elfriede Kaun

Out

Csak, Hungary

Also out

The 16 year old Dorothy Odam

Elfriede Kaun tries it for the second time

Out again

And now the girl from Hungary

The last chance for the Germans

And now the bar is set at 1.62 meters

Kaun, Odam and Csak still in the running

First, the English girl

No... out

Now our Elfriede Kaun

Out

The last one, the Hungarian girl

Winner Ibolya Csak

First gold medal for Hungary

For the shot-put the favorites are Torrance, USA,

Bärlund, Finland and

Woellke, Germany

First the German Sievert

14.79

Kuntsi, Finland

14.61

Torrance, the American world record holder

15.38

Berg from Sweden

15.01

Francis, USA

15.45

Stöck, Germany

15.66

The Finnish master Bärlund, Woellke's main rival

16.03, new Olympic record

Woellke, Germany

15.96

7cm less than the Finn

Last attempt by Bärlund

Even further, 16.12

Woellke's last chance

16.20

German victory

First, Woellke,

second, Bärlund

third, Stöck

800 meter run,

the best runners in the world are ready.

Two black runners against the strongest of the white race.

In the middle Edwards, Canada

next to him McCape from England.

The favorite for this run is the very tall black Woodruff.

Lanzi, Italy is the hope of Europe

Edwards taking the lead,

before Anderson from Argentina and Lanzi from Italy

Edwards still in front but Woodruff is coming up

Kucharsky from Poland attacks,

is now next to the Canadian and takes the Iead.

But Edwards comes to the front again.

Woodruff attacks and takes the lead.

Lanzi is fifth.

Edwards in the lead again,

he wants to win the 800 meters...

to win for the first time in his third Olympic games.

Where is Lanzi?

First Woodruff, USA,

second Lanzi, Italy,

third Edwards, Canada.

For the triple jump we have Japanese athletes

against Metcalfe from Australia.

Romero, USA

15.08

Rajasaari, Finland, European champion

14.59

Richardson, Canada

fault

Wöllner, Germany

15.27 New German record

Oshima, Japan

15.07

Tajima, Japan

15.76

New Olympic Record

Metcalfe, Australia

15.50

Harada, Japan

15.66

Tajima, Japan

16 meters

New world record and gold medal for Japan

In the long jump

we have a final with the German Luz Long

and the fastest runner in the world, Jesse Owens.

7.54

Jesse Owens

7.74

20 cm more than Long

Now Long again

7.84

The German is in the lead

Owens

7.87

Again, 3 cm more

Luz Long

7.87

Exactly the same result as Owens, a new European record

And one more time Jesse Owens

8.06

New world record Gold medal for America

The final of the 1500 meter run

Cornes from England in the lead,

second Beccali from Italy, third Böttcher, Germany;

then Ny, Sweden and next to him the black Edwards from Canada.

Then comes the German Schaumburg.

Cornes still in the lead...

but Böttcher comes to the front,

Beccali is catching up, Schaumburg fourth,

behind Beccali.

Second round,

Cornes in the lead.

But in the middle the American Cunningham is coming to the front,

passes the Swedish Ny,

attacks the top,

is now next to Böttcher and Beccali...

followed by Lovelock.

Cunningham moves to the front

Now he's leading,

Schaumburg comes to the front and is second, before Lovelock.

Cunningham, Schaumburg, Lovelock, Beccali...

The Swede, Ny comes up,

passes Cornes and Böttcher

and passes Beccali

Lovelock and Schaumburg

into second place

Two more rounds to go

Cunningham, Ny, Lovelock, Beccali, Schaumburg

Ny tries to attack the American runner,

after him Lovelock,

but the American doesn't give in.

Cunningham and Ny both first.

The Swedish Ny takes the lead,

followed by Cunnigham and Lovelock

The last round begins

Ny in the lead before Cunningham and Lovelock

Lovelock begins to move up

passes the American, passes the Swede.

Cunningham follows...

Beccali is also before Ny who is tired...

Lovelock, Cunningham, Beccali

The American loses speed but Lovelock sprints...

Beccali fights...

Nothing can stop Lovelock, it's the run of his life

World record

First, Lovelock, New Zealand

world record time 3:47.8.

Second Cunningham, America

Third Beccali, Italy

High jump for men

The bar is set at 1.85 meters

It begins, Thurber, USA

Castro Mello, Brazil

Asakuma, Japan

Toribio, Philippines

The bar is set at 1.90 meters

Yada, Japan

Kotkas, Finland

Weinkötz, Germany

Tanaka, Japan

Asakuma, Japan

Albritton, USA

Johnson, USA

The bar is now at 1.97 meters

Asakuma, Japan

Kalima, Finland

Weinkötz, Germany

Tanaka, Japan

Yada, Japan

Thurber, USA

Albritton, USA

Johnson, USA

Now the bar is set at 2.03 meters, only four men are left...

Kotkas, Finland, the best European, starts.

Out

Thurber, USA

Albritton, USA

Johnson, USA

Olympic record

First, Johnson,

second, Albritton,

third, Thurber.

The jumpers from America win.

110 meter hurdles, elimination heat

From the left to the right: Lavery, South-Africa, Finlay, England

the black Pollard, USA, Ivanovic, Yugoslavia;

O'Connor, Canada and Wegner, Germany.

In the first semifinal, American, Forrest Towns set

a new world record: of 15.1 sec.

His main rivals are the black American Pollard and Finlay from England.

Almost together they go over the hurdles...

Finlay is a bit behind now,

Pollard in the lead.

But Finlay’s coming on.

In the final fight he's very fast.

With stretched legs both men go over the last hurdles.

And Finlay is the first, with style!

Second Pollard, America

Third O'Connor, Canada

Forrest Towns just before the final

His main rivals are Finlay

and the black American, Pollard

At the start

Pollard, America; O'Connor, Canada;

Thornton, England; Lidman, Sweden

Forrest Towns, America and Finlay, England

Finlay and Towns go together over the first hurdles,

but Towns gets faster...

and is ahead of Finlay.

Pollard catching up, tries hard, but Towns flies over

the last hurdle Towns wins

Towns wins with the amazing time of 14.2 seconds

before Finlay, England and Pollard, America.

Nikkanen, Finland

Toivonen, Finland

Klein, Czechoslovakia

Vattnes, Iceland

Terry, USA

Ueno, Japan

Toivonen, Finland

Matti Järvinen... who has the world record; he won in Los Angeles

The Hungarian, Varszegi

Järvinen again

Atterwall from Sweden

And now our German Stöck again

Toivonen again

Nikkanen, Finland

70.77

Last chance for Stöck

71.84

German victory in the javelin throw.

For the first time the Finnish supremacy is broken.

The 10,000 meter run

The English in the front.

Potts is leading Eaton,

now comes Burnes from England,

next to him Askola the Finn.

Potts in the lead before Burnes and Eaton.

But Murakoso of Japan, catches up.

Murakoso is in the lead.

The group of runners has scattered.

Several runners are ahead of the group.

First, Murakoso

Second, Salminen, Finland

Third, Noji, Poland

Then Askola and Iso-Hollo, Finland

Burns from England is sixth

Murakoso holds the lead

the order is still unchanged

Askola spurts, past Noji into third

keeps moving up to Salminen

next to Salminen

and Finns are in check their moment has not yet come

Askola drops back

passes Noji to 4th place

Burns drops back

Murakoso sets a terrific pace

Askola moves up again to Salminen and passes

They pass a Japanese, he loses a Iap

Salminen is 3rd, Iso-Hollo in 4th, Noji of Poland 5th

The Finns have started their long waited attack

...against the Japanese runner, Murakoso

the Finns are challenging

The Finns are ahead

the Japanese is third

Iso-Hollo and Askola passed Murakoso

now Salminen passes him

The Finnish team in the front

First: Iso-Hollo

Second: Askola

Third: Salminen

The Finns go faster and faster.

The small Japanese tries to catch up,

he's now next to Salminen

He is third now.

Salminen takes the lead, Askola and Iso—Hollo are following.

The last round, the long spurt of the Finns begins.

The Polish, Noji did one round...

200 meters to go

Askola spurts and is now before Salminen

The last 100 meters

Almost the finish

Salminen tries to attack,

Askola fights, running faster, comes to the front...

but Salminen is winning.

First, Salminen,

second, Askola,

third, Iso-Hollo

The three runners from Finland first, second and third.

The final of the pole vault

25 jumpers have jumped higher than 3.80 meters.

The fight for victory in the pole vault is not over.

The remaining participants have been competing for five hours now.

Three Americans and two Japanese,

like in 1932 in Los Angeles.

The cross bar is set at 4.25 meters

Oe, Japan begins

Out

Second try

The strong American, Graber

Out

Graber's world record stands at 4.37 meters

Second try

Out

Last try

Out

Nishida, the Japanese master

Sefton, America

The young American athlete, Meadows

Out

Meadows, second attempt

The bar is set at 4.35 meters

Two Americans against two Japanese in the Iast part

Oe begins

Out

Sefton

Also out

Now it is between Nishida and Meadows for the victory

Nishida

Out

He jumped his best

Meadows

Victory for America

New Olympic record

Gold medal for Meadows

400 meter relay for women

Germany, England, America, Canada, Holland

and Italy are in the final.

The German team ran a world record during the heats.

The German runner Emmi Albus is catching up

with the runners from Holland and Canada in the outside lane.

She brings Germany the lead. First change.

Krauss takes over

and passes the Canadian girl,

then the girl from Holland,

Germany is even more in the lead,

second change

Dollinger flies away, makes the lead even bigger,

6, 8, 10 meters before the others...

Germany cannot lose

Now the last exchange

it's up to Dörffeldt... and Germany drops the baton.

This makes way for America...

Helen Stephens storms over the finish.

First, America

second, England

third, Canada

400 meter relay, men.

In the final we have Argentina,

Germany, Holland, America, Italy and Canada.

Owens, the fastest man in the world puts America easily in the lead,

he passes the Italian, Mariani

and gives the baton to Metcalfe.

He passes the Canadian Humber,

gives the baton to Draper,

Draper with high speed...

is leading and in the curve he makes the lead even bigger.

Draper gives the baton to Frankie Wykoff

who runs to victory.

First, America with a new world record of 39.8

second, Italy

third, Germany

The Dutchman, Osendarp was third when he lost the baton

The 4x400 meter relay race

In the final,

Germany, America, Canada,

Sweden, Hungary and England

On the outer lane, Wolff from Great Britain tries to get the lead.

Fritz, the fastest man in Canada is already second

and runs after the Brit.

Four meters, three

the English man runs slower and the Canadian, Fritz behind him faster

The next curve...

Fritz catches up

Wolff cannot go faster than the Canadian...

There is Wolff

Wolff and Fritz side by side.

Now the American runner is catching up...

next to him the German runner...

Now the Canadian is clearly in the lead

Exchange of the baton. Edwards a very fast runner...

we saw this seven times this week...

now he wants to win the relay for Canada

There comes the American runner ....

the American close behind him... now next to him...

but at the same time there is the English runner...

and passes by the two others...

Exchange

Roberts is flying the small British guy is very fast.

England's victory depends on him.

There is the American, O'Brien coming closer and closer.

England still leading

O'Brien runs faster and is now next to Roberts...

Side by side now...

but Roberts is faster...

Roberts in the front,

more and more ahead of the American.

1 meter, 2 meters, 3 meters now

England is leading...

Next exchange

here is Brown from England,

the fastest white man in the world in the 400 meter...

we saw him six times this week...

There is the American...the best American runner Fitch

Centimeter by centimeter he catches up.

The English runner gives everything he has...

it will be between America and England...

Still 200 meters to go

The American comes closer...

Brown has to fight...

The American attacks...

The American only two meters behind the English runner.

But Brown doesn’t give up...

with his Iast strength he fights against the American for England

And wins in the 4x400 meter relay.

First, Great Britain

second, America

third, Germany

MARATHON

Marathon... the hardest endurance test for athletes...

42 kilometers till the end...

56 runners are fighting with all their might for their honor

and the victory of their country.

Zabala from Argentina, the winner in Los Angeles,

wants to win for the second time but Japan is a strong rival.

Nan is the favorite but Son is also strong.

And the runners from Finland, can they beat the Japanese?

The runners are leaving the stadium, Zabala is in the lead.

Here is German radio.

We are on the Marathon route. kilometer 8.

In the lead is the winner of the world record in 1932, Zabala, Argentina.

Second is the Portuguese, Dias

Son, Japan and Harper, Great Britain are third.

Attention, attention. At this point they have to return...

Zabala still in the lead

The group has dispersed. The athletes are...

now running on the glowing asphalt.

After Zabala, we have the Japanese, Kitei Son and

the English, Harper side by side

The Portuguese, Dias is third,

the Swedish, Enochsson and the South African, Coleman follow him

The members of Finland's team are together, trying to catch up.

Three runners, one country, one will!

They still have 21 kilometers to go.

Here is the speaker at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gate.

The runners have now 35 kilometers behind them.

Zabala, the winner of Los Angeles has collapsed.

He went too fast in the beginning.

Son Japan, is leading

Winner of the Marathon

Kitei Son, Japan

second Harper, England

third also from Japan, Nan

fourth Tamila, Finland

fifth Muinonen, Finland

sixth Coleman, South-Africa