The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912 (2017)

The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912 2017 Using the surviving film materials from the Olympic Games held in Stockholm 1912 created at the time by a single production company, Svensk Amerikanska Filmkompaniet these images, often misunderstood and consequently misused as historical records The production undertook a scene by scene analysis of each surviving shot using historical records to reconstruct a chronological sequence of images that would tell the story of these Olympic Games After 4K digital scanning in Burbank , CA by Warner Bros Motion Picture Imaging Chris Rodmell edited the material into a new chronological record of events from over a century before The creation and addition of intertitles with newly written text, allows us to finally and accurately contextualize the images The Criterion Blu Ray edition comes with a musical accompaniment by Donald Sosin, thus brings the second dimension to what is a true testament to the technical quality of the original materials and the skillfulness of those who captured them