The greatest Olympic film was made by not chasing the glory shot. Tokyo 2020 documentary makers should do the same
The official film of the ’64 Olympics opens with a match cut; it jumps from the blazing white sun to a wrecking ball demolishing a bomb-ruined block of Tokyo city. Walls fall, dust rises. The ’64 Olympics cost $2.8bn, which made them the most expensive in history. They came on a wave of poured concrete, 100km of new super highways, a new sewage system, two new subway lines, a new monorail to the refurbished airport, a new Shinkansen line to Osaka. The Games were, sports historian David Goldblatt wrote, “both an instrument and symbol” of Japan’s rapid economic development and its post-war rehabilitation.
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Written by Andy Bull in Tokyo
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/21/how-capturing-the-small-details-at-tokyo-64-created-a-masterpiece under the title “How capturing the small details at Tokyo 64 created a masterpiece | Andy Bull”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
