
UsingthesurvivingfilmmaterialsfromtheOlympicGamesheldinStockholm1912createdatthetimebyasingleproductioncompany,Svensk-AmerikanskaFilmkompaniettheseimages,oftenmisunderstoodandconsequentlymisusedashistoricalrecordsTheproductionundertookascene-by-sceneanalysisofeachsurvivingshotusinghistoricalrecordstoreconstructachronologicalsequenceofimagesthatwouldtellthestoryoftheseOlympicGames.After4KdigitalscanninginBurbank,CAbyWarnerBros.MotionPictureImagingChrisRodmelleditedthematerialintoanewchronologicalrecordofeventsfromoveracenturybefore.Thecreationandadditionofintertitleswithnewlywrittentext,allowsustofinallyandaccuratelycontextualizetheimages.TheCriterionBlu-RayeditioncomeswithamusicalaccompanimentbyDonaldSosin,thusbringstheseconddimensiontowhatisatruetestamenttothetechnicalqualityoftheoriginalmaterialsandtheskillfulnessofthosewhocaptured...WrittenbyAJW