Monday, July 28, 2008

Olympic Games 1956 (1956)

Documentary showing the XVIth Olympiad, which took place in Melbourne, Australia. I am guessing that the 50 minutes or so that I saw (on Brazilian TV) were a heavily cut version of the entire movie. Its integral duration is a little hard to ascertain, since the Internet Movie Database registers two versions, one shown in 1956 and another which was edited from the first one and came out in 2000. The latter's duration -- the only one reported -- is 104 minutes.

The film is a straightforward record without much sophistication of any sort.

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