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- SummaryThis mixed black and white and color documentary film reports on the new scientific methods of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) to control the movement of athletes, to optimize them to ultimately achieve better performance. Examples of gymnasts, high jumpers, swimmers, handball players, ski jumpers, figure skaters and track and field athletes show by slow motion and other image analysis where improvements are required during training and competition. In retrospect, the film begins with black-and-white shots of earlier successes of well-known GDR athletes, and then the new process is presented with color shots for the next generation.
- Shotlist0:00:00 Black and white shots: Intermediate cuts of fully occupied stadiums (half total). Intermediate cuts from enthusiastic and tense spectators (half total). Intermediate cuts of cheering spectators in the stadium (half total). Spokesman: "They all have their team, their favourites, their favourites...(film showing ski jumpers)...they love the game of the sports fight...(film showing a football match)...they admire the courage, the strength, the dexterity...(film showing shot-putters, a women's relay, ring gymnasts)....and they remember again and again the great Olympic days...(film insertions)...country battles, bitter defeats and unforgettable victories...(film insertions of long-distance runners and a gymnast)...the famous years of past years are still alive in the memory of the audience. In the meantime, younger women have taken the place of the big ones of those days...(look at a women's hurdles race)...yesterday's record was enough to qualify for the preliminaries...(look at female ground gymnasts)...because the old demand is valid today as it was then: "faster, further, higher". recut 0:01:05 A picture taken on a road with a view of the long-distance runner Emil Zatopek (half near). Intermediate sections of a ground gymnast and the long-distance runner Zatopek (semi-total). Speaker: "Athletes are improving their technique, improving their style, constantly working on increasing strength and endurance and constantly inventing new tactical variations... (Look at the finish of Emil Zatopek from Czechoslovakia). ..This alone cannot explain the constant increase in performance, there are not many other factors involved...(Intermediate cuts of the floor gymnast and ice hockey players)...Last but not least, this is behind the winners...(view of victorious female lead athletes and floor gymnasts)...scientifically processed training plans, scientific control methods, exact analyses. This is not spoken of on the stands, let us now speak of it as a "scientific subfield". Redesign to the film title "Image Analysis". 0:01:50 Color photographs: Backward zoom from a 35mm camera lens to the cameraman (semi-close). Cameraman aligns his camera on a tripod next to a large mirror (half near). Camera panning from cameraman to an athlete on a pommel horse (half total) (original sound) "Light on, attention. Roll camera, please." Turner starts the freestyle (half near). Cut to the manual work on the handles of the pommel horse (near). Countercut. View from below on the turn movements (semi-close). Speaker: "The athlete's movements are fast and fleeting, and with the help of photographic techniques they can be captured for analysis". Cut to the turn movements in slow motion (half total). Speaker: "The observations from different points of view and distances, the highlighting of details, the slowing down of the process, or a montage of still images... (fading in of still images of the gymnast)... all this can for example serve to objective opinion of the performance". recut 0:02:40 View of a handball game in a hall (half total). Circumcision. View from above over the fast moves of the two teams (half total). Intermediate cut of throws and defense actions of the players from different points of view (semi-total). Cut over to the trainer (semi-near). Editing to the review of the game on a cinema screen (nah). Speaker: "Here it is the film that makes it possible to repeat the scene that matters so often and to study a future opponent or to recognize one's own mistakes". Backwards camera movement from the cinema screen with a view of the watching athletes with coach (half total) (original sound). Cut to the coach with handball in his hand (half near) (original sound) "Thank you, that's enough. Klaus, show me again. So you could then jump after the ball and not grab the arm, that doesn't earn us anything. Well, that's enough for today". Cut to the athletes walking away in the cinema room (half total). Circumcision. View of the handball players in the training hall (half total). Circumcision. View from above of the players in the goal area (half total). Intermediate cuts of moves and throws (semi-near). Speaker: "To have recognized a mistake is the prerequisite to avoid it in the future...(look at the coach in his instructions to the players)... and that means in this case by fair separation from the ball, a 7 meter, an almost safe goal to escape". View of the training on the seven meter circle (half total). recut 0:03:55 View at the hands of a gymnast at the rings (half near). Backward zoom of the hands on the gymnast at the rings at his freestyle (half total). Redefining to the gymnast with a picture division (half-total). Speaker: "Another possibility is image splitting. An athlete has performed the same exercise twice... (fade in by means of image division)...the film shots are shown simultaneously side by side, so that gymnasts and coaches can recognize which parts of the exercise were performed at the wrong speed and thus impair the visual effect of the entire exercise". recut 0:04:20 View from above at the jump of a diver with somersault forward (half total). Intermediate cuts of high jumpers and high jumpers at different jumps (half total). View from below of the tower and the jump from the handstand of a jumper (half total). Camera panning from a jumper in the water basin to his trainer (half total). Speaker: "It is not easy even for experts to recognize details in such fast motion sequences. What needs to be improved in this jump, what corrections need to be made"? Circumcision. View from behind on the jump of a jumper from the 10 meter tower in slow motion (half total). Speaker: "Without the help of slow-motion technology, it is hardly possible to break down the entire process into its individual components... (Movies showing jumps in slow-motion from different perspectives)...but this is necessary if the jump is to be polished to the last detail". Camera panning from below over the jump of a man from the 10 meter tower (half total). View of different heavy jumps of the men in slow motion (half total). recut 0:05:10 View from above on the jump of a ski jumper from a hill (half total). View from below to the landing of the ski jumper (half total). Speaker: "In jumping, width and posture are evaluated. A jump from the jump represents a rapid and wide-ranging movement that can only be scientifically recorded by image analysis". View of an examination device at the hill (semi-near). View from below of a jumper on the "Große Aschbergschanze" in slow motion (half total). Speaker: "A photokinegram is made of the flight phase...(animated fade-in)...it serves to correct the angle of attack of the skis and the body posture of the jumper". recut 0:05:45 View of the freestyle of a stretcher on the machine (half-total). View of the different turning and grip movements on the bar (semi-total). Speaker: "Very often, modern training requires immediate scientific information. The results of the image analysis should be evaluated during the training...(view of the gymnast's rotation from the side)...the cyclochronophotogram meets this requirement...(fade in of a multiple exposure photo capturing the rotation in single steps)...the different movement phases during the gymnastics of the giant rim are recorded on a negative film. The green lines denote the actual posture (fade-in) the red lines the ideal (fade-in) the difference is the reason for the "out-of-round, non-fluid swing". Redesign to a balance beam exercise (semi-near) with drawn in and animated motion sequences. Speaker: "These are traces of light that mark the path of certain parts of the body during a balancing beam exercise. Yellow shoulders, red hips, green legs... (fading from the traces of light to the gymnast on the balance beam)... in this way one gets statements about technique and economy of movement". View of the gymnast with light cables on her body on the balance beam (semi-total) from different directions. View of the jump from the beam (half total). recut 0:06:45 View of the smiling face of a figure skater (close). Cut over to the figure skater on the ice rink (half total). Intermediate section of a ground gymnast, a pole vaulter, a ski jumper, a high jumper, a swimmer, canoeists and cyclists (semi-total). Speaker: "These are, of course, all methods that sportsmen and sportswomen who think demand scientifically accurate research results to improve their performance and gain security from them. The importance of scientific analyses and methods is unmistakable, the scientific-technical revolution has long since also affected sport, which, however, should not mean that top sporting performance could be achieved without training diligence, energy and discipline, only when all this comes together can athletes "look forward to the fight with composure". View of GDR light athletes at a competition (half near). Camera panning over field hockey players (half total). Panning over football teams when entering the stadium (half total). Intermediate cuts of footballers, water sportsmen and canoeists (half total). Speaker: "It is not uncommon for juniors to achieve the Olympic medals they deserved a few years ago today. New names appear in the sports news...(view of young footballers and track and field athletes)...new favourites and "spectators' favourites". recut 0:07:40 View of a GDR runner before the start (half near). Cut to a high jumper before the jump, to a swimmer before the start, to a 100 meter runner before the start, to a foursome with helmsman before the start (half total). Intermediate cuts from the start of the field hockey players, the racing cyclists, the rowers, the ski jumpers, the 100 meter runners, the swimmers, the high jumpers, the hurdlers, the figure skaters, the pole jumpers, the long jumpers, the shot-putters and the discus throwers (half total). Speaker: "Victory and defeat will continue to be close together, but new top performances will always inspire the sports world... (view of exhausted athletes)... The help of scientific methods cannot be recognized from the grandstand, but we now know that they are behind the inspiring finish, the last effort, the great victory over the opponents and over themselves... (view of victorious GDR athletes)... The successes of the athletes of our republic are a good proof of that. View from the stands onto a football pitch (semi-total) with the credits faded in: "You saw a VEB DEFA Studio for Popular Science film, made on Agfacolor. Rod data: Dramaturgy Wolfgang Wesenberg. Expert advisor Wolfram Rochlitzer. Cut Bärbel Weigel. Music Günter Hörig. The Dresden dance symphonists played it. Production Manager Karl-Friedrich Karnartz. Camera Siegfried Angelè and Dietrich Schwartz. Director Ulrich Kluck. Thanks: We would like to thank the Research Centre of the BHfK Leipzig for their "friendly support". View of the players leaving the soccer field (half total). dimming 0:09:25 end
- TagsGerman Democratic Republic (GDR); Sports; Audience; Ski Jumper; Soccer; Athletics; Technique; Style; Strength; Freestyle; Aschberg; Endurance; Czechoslovakia; Performance; Ice Hockey; Winner; Loser; Training; Pommel Horse; Slow Motion; Handball; Coach; Gymnast; Tower Jumper; Swimming; Ski Jump; Rech; Balance Beam; Figure Skating; Competition; Discipline; Field Hockey; Water Sports; High Performance; Science;
- Decade1960
- Production Year1967
- Release date3 May 1968
- GenreDocumentary
- Country of Production
- Actors
- PersonalitiesEmil Zatopek
- DirectorUlrich Kluck
- Producer
- CameraDietrich Schwartz, Siegfried Angelé
- Original Clip IdentifierQ6UJ9A002NJ3