The Athletes (Italian version)

Episode of Series “A Man and His Sport”.
The growth of track and field competition in Australia is studied, junior events as well as international competitions. We see the work being done to encourage youngsters to participate in track and field events. The film contains some excellent slow motion sequences of athletes performing at their peak, which evoke a strange sort of fluid beauty in this otherwise rather harsh world of sweat and strain. Narration is in the Italian language.

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Credits

director

Don Murray

producer

Frank Bagnall

production company

Film Australia

Duration

00:28:00:00

Production places

Australia

Production dates

1970

Appears in

Group of items

A Man and His Sport

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

000689

Language

Italian

Subject categories

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Foreign language films

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Italians - Australia

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Italians - Australia

Foreign language films

Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Athletes

Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Athletes - Australia

Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Athletics

Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Track-athletics

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

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Australia, 1970

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