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Auction History Result 1p001 OLYMPIAD German presskit '38 Part I of Leni Riefenstahl's 1936 Munich Olympics documentary! Date Sold 6/3/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical German Movie Presskit (measures 9 1/2" x 12 1/2" [24 x 32 cm]; 78 single-sided pages) (Learn More) Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Volker (released in the U.S. as "The Olympiad"), the 1938 Leni Riefenstahl (movie actress who became a director for Hitler and made "Triumph of the Will" and this film) German Olympic sports documentary featuring documentary footage of the Olympic events, which included the top athletes from Germany, but also from the other competing countries, including the black athletes from the U.S., most notably Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe. Adolf Hitler appears in the movie, and there are additional sequences of athletes performing (some in the nude), which were filmed especially for this movie. Note that this documentary on the 1936 Berlin Olympics was so massive that it was released in two parts (the first part was "Olympia Part I: Festival of the Nations", and the second part was "Olympia Part II: Festival of Beauty"; so technically this movie should be referred to as "Festival of the Nations", but because most people know it under the title of "Olympia" or "Olympiad", we refer to it in that way). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have never seen a presskit like this before! It is not a "presskit" in the modern sense, but rather it is a softcover book with 78 single-sided pages, all of which are perforated at the spine (but fortunately, none of them have been removed). It is FILLED with a huge amount of written material about the movie, and there is a section with cool cartoon illustrations about the filming. What is really wonderful is that the final 13 pages of the presskit are either images of stills from the movie, or lists of captions for those stills (and they are cross referenced). While dozens of stills are pictured, they are not all of the stills that were created for the movie, because they have the original still numbers, and there are many missing numbers. We have never heard of or seen this incredible presskit before, and we think that it would be quite likely that any other surviving examples might well have one or more missing pages, since it was intended that pages be removed (and they are perforated, which makes it incredibly easy to do so). Note that this presskit contains images of unclothed women, so we have placed white bars over those areas, for those who are bothered by such images. Of course, the actual presskit does not have those white bars! Condition: very good to fine. There is wear along the spine and around the edges of the covers. All of the interior pages are in excellent condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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