Diving in 1936 Olympics

[Context81]

No belly flops for the fuhrer

[SatchmoSings]

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.

[SatchmoSings]

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.

[SatchmoSings]

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!

[CDRofl]

i dont know about you but i'd only compete 106c on 3m for $50.

[SkillFullNinja]

2:36 WTF?!?!?!?!

[panina97]

AHAHAHHAAHAH, MMH DIFFICULT!

[DianaDiabolo]

Großartiger Film und Leni Riefenstahl eine der besten Filmemacherinnen aller Zeiten.Filmkunst in absoluter Vollendung und für damalige Verhältnisse,wegweisend!

[andreaprodan]

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'

[isocrate27]

Water was much more watery in these days.

[BelaFarinRodDBBDW]

this is sooo awesome

[Radebar]

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

[bananito3]

hey the nazis were pretty good at film also

this takes are far better than today media

[JamesLBrownc]

hmzmag jemand quatschen bin ne ganz liebe aber irgendwie total einsam im moment

[ericlv102]

durante los años 20s-30s el fotografo A. Rodchenko se dedico a documentar entre otras cosas los eventos deportivos sovieticos, esto es en foto fija, el mas cercano antecedente a lo realizado por Rienfensthal

[chiksayant]

Well, imagine diving in those old boards without holes and flexibility.. Scary and slippery. My respects for the divers of those times.

One day i went to one of those old pools and they use to even be inclined.. Really scary, i could barely do 21/5 tuck out of there

[zeb11223]

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

[numisnerd]

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!

[w1880]

You're absolutely right.

[numisnerd]

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.

[gymnasticsrocks1011]

this is so mazing they were so much more daring and cool then they are now thank you so much you rock!

[eweclidgee]

Things like the cut at 3:24 is why this woman is so freaking amazing.

[fettfettmerafett]

Amazing cinematics.

[wachaufeuropa]

Can you believe nobody knows about Leni Riefenstahl's genius and what she did to cinema ?

All this because of the Allies.

Fuck America. Calls herself the Good in the world but is rotten to the bone.

[Noone103]

lol i didnt know they had swimming pools! haha

[DrAlexisOlson]

Very cool. Diving has come a long way.

I could probably have competed diving back then and I'm not even a diver (just a gymnast).

[spyrogira08]

@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.

[wc213]

This is so much better than the stuff today.

[timonster94]

@wc213 haha yeah i could have won back then

[miniatureme95]

@wc213 i know right now it seems they take it to far and have no passion for it

[hemming57]

One of the greatest sequences in documentary film making, ever.

[ozasilly9]

diving has come far since then, but not as far a gymnastics has, plus i personally prefer 1936's diving, the divers actually flew, there's so much grace and bauty, you just don't see that anymore...

[Sabredivr104c]

you see it sooo much more nowdays than back then.

[ozasilly9]

no, i think you misunderstood, what i meant is now the dives are very complicated and, though extraordinary, not simple and elegant such as the dives at 1:53 and 2:46 . Diving now is understandably much more difficult, and so more interesting to watch, plus it's been majorly perfected, but it just lacks the grace of simplicity.

[Sabredivr104c]

oh ok.. ya i see what you mean.

[ChrisxChaos]

Those kind of dives are still performed, a lot more then you think too. They're called "Voluntaries" and in a high school 11 dive meet you have to do 1 from each of the 5 categories. The most recognized diving competition is the Olympics, in which they do 6 dives total and only one has to be a Voluntary.  The harder/more complicated the dive is, the more DD you get which is translated into a higher total score. They do crazy hard dives because they have to in order to win.

[EmmalalaLovesTD]

it seems as though the diving nowadays has been perfected more than what it used to be, e.g. the big splashes.

[uberawesomeninja]

TOM IS MY IDOL!!! he can do this and waayyyy better....but still they make all this look so easy when i my unskilled self can barely do a double back flip thinggyy off a 3m spring boarddddd....

[laur3nbaby]

People train there whole life to go to the olympics now, you could learn this stuff in a few months.

[Sabredivr104c]

BS you can learn this stuff in a few months!

[soccerfreak97]

id be able to win gold.......

[jenaosa1224]

wow so much has changed since 1936

[stealthydagger]

3 years later... Gone With The Wind was released and changed history.

[mypetridish]

the standard was so low...

[Kaspall]

wiieee geil!

[gholdes]

woot. pulling out the forward pike dive with a 1/2 twist at 51. it makes me look like i have worked hard. haha

[sakoehring]

zzsql, im happy with my white race, but not proud, because shitholes like you think we're better than everyone else. newsflash: we're not. and if hitler wasnt a devil, then was he? misunderstood? bullshit. he was evil and every decent person in the world knows that.

you neo-nazi piece of shit. learn some respect for the rest of the world, even if they dont look like you.

[9smoothiemix15]

WOW!!! Skillzz!! haha!!! i keep thinking they might nock their heads on the board! :S haha never happens!!! =)

[KyrieEIeison]

As you can see Reifenstahl wanted to show the alliance between the German reich & Japan with showing Japanese people too.

[btbamlove]

Interesting fact for those unaware: I watched this in my college Humanities class. We learned that this is actually a propaganda film for the Nazi's as it represents the Germans as ethereal and perfect, the ideal humans in Hitler's eyes.

[boxerphotos]

Filmmaker Leni Reifenstahl was the closest person to Hitler to avoid war-crime inditment. She lived to be 101 but never made another film. What might she have done? Her work is awesome. This is from her OLYMPIA and to my eye it's still the best sports video I know. TV coverage always looks like an immitation and usually doesn't make it. She created the lighting and carrage of the Olympic torch, still, only of our most beautiful rituals, currently being overdone by the Chinese. :)

[teheranblues]

@boxerphotos SHE DID MAKE OTHER FILMS! ABOUT PEOPLES IN AFRICA ....

[nattliz]

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.

[jpfidric]

Wow thats nice, I bet its for the very same reason that women compete in the Olympics as well, or maybe a substitute for the inability of women to have an erection.

[skaterfugater]

@btbamlove I think you're right. pause at 0:28 and you can see that this guy has a shit swastika on his swim suit. These suits look dumb anyway.

[matheo025]

lol I like the 106C on 3m springboard

[matheo025]

and the 5112D at 2:15

[Midsten]

Back in 36', those landings were okay. However, nowadays you always dive when your head first into the water.

[nnamdieze87]

you're a dusch bag. Your fuckiing racist, bloody cunt. your a bloody cracker. white trash

[zzsql]

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!

[nnamdieze87]

adolf hitler was a devil. Josef mengele, karl brandt, hyiedrich and others were all devils. The auschwitz camp that eliminated 6 million jews just becase of the kristallnatcht. White fool i know my history. Cracker

[zzsql]

"I knows my historys foos!!!"

Face it: You're an embarrassment to humanity.

Also, you're wrong about Auschwitz. Only 3 million died at the 3 camps collectively known as Auschwitz I, II and III.

PS the other people whose names you misspelled, they weren't devils. That is a subjective term of abuse that idiots like you use to slam people you don't understand.

[nnamdieze87]

the names weren't mispelt. you dumb ass. I might be a negro but am not stupid. Josef mengele, karl brandt performed human experimentation. That was so inhumane

[Waldocounty]

It's "misspellt," or more correct, "misspelled." Beware accusations of "dumb ass," lest they come back to bite you.

[GCarty80]

@zzsql

Actually the Auschwitz death toll was about 1 million. Auschwitz came to symbolize the Holocaust in the West because it was the camp to which Western Europe's Jews were sent, and also because it had thousands of survivors (due to its dual purpose as a slave labour camp).

The pure death camps (such as Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibór) were used to wipe out the roughly 3 million Polish Jews, and had almost no survivors. Also about two million Jews were shot in the occupied Soviet Union.

[Kupon3ss]

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.

[xkate1019x]

did 1 at 0:15 do a belly flop thing when he went into the water?

[xkate1019x]

theres loads of massive splashes!

[Semmao]

cameras in 1936....caught really good motion pictures...

[pinky0090]

hahahaha  the guy doing the reverse dive at 3:58 is going to smack hard core :O

[matheo025]

LOL

[Gamerawr]

Oh boy, I will clear up some confusion in the comments... this piece is entirely original and dates to 1936, by innovative filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. The comments about this being modern editing is very amusing. That's precisely why this piece was so groundbreaking. It's really the first type of film like this. This is one of the movies they make every film student watch.

And for something completely different, you can watch my remake of this film in my videos :)

[Kirby141414]

lol no one rips the entry... they all just flop in

[Metrobilbao]

actually the chinese dude that does the platform reverse.... rips pretty well!

[Kirby141414]

Yeah... his pike is really nice... but he doesnt rip the entry.. Look up the video "Dive Alive" that is the olympics of 2004... that is insane stuff... all of that has ripped entries

[Metrobilbao]

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....

[Kirby141414]

This is only my 2nd year diving... (Still ranked 1st in the state of maine =D)

I didnt realize that they actualy had wooden boards back in the day... thats nuts... The responses really must have sucked... a double bounce would probably splinter it haha

[chrisizcoool]

ill own u

im from CT

[Hoogliette]

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.

[blootree]

its fake cos in no way did they have such good quality camera footage in those days?

[bawdog]

can't be more recent than 30's, not with those funky forward dive half twists.

[ihrtcrissangel]

maybe not the 1936 olympics but definitly not anything new... a long time ago thats for sure

[Jboxton]

That's bullshit. All fake. That was done this year with cables and one of those old time filters. Nice try you assholes.

[jlebesis]

Then how do you explain the horribly daggy speedos???? :P

[Jboxton]

How do you explain how they make it look like there are space ships flying around? It's all camera tricks you gullible asshole.

[jlebesis]

Haha...you sad little man, you couldnt even see the sarcasm and humour in my message.

[Jboxton]

I saw it :)

[KarenLovesGymnastics]

They're really goo. I'd be scared to be that close to the board!

[spanishlake]

The beauty of it really kicks in about two minutes in. The rest is just magic. Reifenstahl was a genius--a flawed genius no doubt, but a genius.

[ibrahemz]

nice video .. thank u :)

[mistersucker]

its funny to hear u kids wank on about how bad they r & how good (u think) u r. they were using wooden boards back then. today's techniques were learnt from these pioneers. fuck up the lot of ya!

[KarenLovesGymnastics]

You're probably some teenager calling KIDS that.

[3greco3]

hahaha...its so funny how bad they are compared to how good people are now

[doubts]

Its not funny at all. There are pioneers in new sports today who will look dated in 10 years. Technology also improves the equipment[think tennis]. If you have no respect for the past you generally dont learn anything.

[HDDCdiver]

the pikes are very dodgy && entries are badd but its a gd vid =]]

[elvissweet]

The 1936 Olympic games introduced the Tourch and 5 Olympic rings, Nazi symbols still in use!

[sierrapaigepenguin]

they don't show any of the ends of the dives....argh. but cool anyway.

[BOY68BOY]

Leni Riefenstahl was a genius. The great name in movie history. Film academies today teach his technique and visual style. For example movies like Gladiator and Star Wars etc. have borrowed much from her. Working for Nazi Government, do not lower the value of her masterpieces. My country Finnland was Germanys close ally in World War II. Hitlers military help (200 top fighters/bombers etc.) at critical moment stopped the Russian pazer divisions at Tali- Ihantala 1944.

[BOY68BOY]

There is an spelling error: her technique not his. So easy to notice afterwards not so easy when writes fast.

[BMMojojojo]

this is awesome! thankyou for posting it. please do not delte it!

[utkonos313]

diving such a nice metaphor for all nazi ideology, just that the pool has water in it when the hit bottom lol

[nnamdieze87]

This video brings back memories

[Kinjiro89]

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

[StimpleBottom]

lol they look like airplanes

[CIGARRO1970]

The Olympic´s Nazistyle.

[thepeterpot]

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

[marykmusic]

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.

[Novalier]

Riefenstahl was an ardent Nazi. Her work was done with Nazi funds and under the approval and encouragement of Goebbels. Because of her ties to the hierarchy in Berlin, she knew what was going on even then with the early forms of the concentration camps. Were it not for her devotion to the cause, she would never have survived as an artist, if she was even that. You will find better photography and camera views of sport segments on the Internet, e.g. Fu Mingxia in Sydney 2000.

[marykmusic]

The movie business was only 40 years old when this was shot. Of course a lot has been done and learned since then! But I still insist that Riefenstahl was sponsored by the Nazi party and therefore was more of an employee than a devotee.

[henrikbjerre]

Love this video!

[wwechamps]

awsome

[DJDiscJokey]

Berlin 1936

[mallibooo]

that film was just great thanks for the memory

[109cFrom1m]

do the boards hav fulcrums??? just curious

[MarieCaseyStevens]

I'm ambivalent about the person who made this footage, but the beauty and artistic talent inherent in the footage itself are undeniable.

[halsey2727]

do u have anyothers from the olympics 1936

[boxerphotos]

This video is magic as is the whole film.

There's a beauty here that current video doesn't approach. Regularly I see them trying to imitate but something is always missing.

The black and white give it abstraction that might be part of it. I find color destracting. :)

[109cFrom1m]

how FANTASTIC!!!

[Stilloptimisticdave]

Brilliant! More exhuberant, more exhilirating, less technical, than modern diving. Was that a 6 m springboard as well as a 3 m one?

[sirshifty]

Wow.. I just love old footage of Diving. Thank you mate!