American Cinematographer - July 1984 - 50

MINUSCULE
Until you use

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Greenspan

sums up

the

difference between television and
film very adroitly when he says:

"My job is easier than ABC's live
television broadcast of the Los

Angeles Games. I have the luxury
of time.' I can complete the
story." Not everyone would agree
with this statement. Ms.
Riefenstahl's reaction to Green¬

span's comment is provoca¬
tive
"Happiness and success I
wish Mr. Greenspan, whom I got
to know several years ago in New
York, when he bought some
footage material from my Olympia
film for his former production. Of
course I cannot share his opinion,
when he argues: 'My job is easier
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than ABC's live television broad¬
cast of the Los Angeles Games. I
have the luxury of time.' It is my
conviction that it is much more
difficult to make a good Olympia
film than to manufacture even a

complicated TV broadcast, as
broadcasting live. Only the
actuality counts and not the shap¬
ing. Furthermore, TV can im¬
provise everything and has a lot of
time at its disposal. For instance

very

TV is

the decision as to which sports to
include in a film, and which ones
are better left out, is
immensely
difficult. And since 1936 more
than double the amount of nations
are

participating in the Olympic

Games, and there

are even more

sports."
One hopes that both
Greenspan and ABC manage to
capture the feeling for the beauty
of sport and the spirit of peaceful
competition between nations as
successfully as Ms. Riefenstahl did
in her film

Olympia.

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release.

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