The Olympic Games in Paris 1924
About The Olympic Games in Paris 1924
Jean de Rovera's documentary records the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, sport by sport. Swimming footage includes Johnny Weissmuller. On the track are the Finnish runners Paavo Nurmi and Ville Ritola, and Harold Abrahams. Tennis coverage shows Jean Borotra, René Lacoste, and Helen Wills. A title card places catch-as-catch-can wrestling at the Winter Velodrome.
Cast & crew
More about The Olympic Games in Paris 1924
The French title is Les jeux olympiques, Paris 1924. It was released in 1925. The Criterion Channel, IMDb, and AllMovie time it at 174 minutes, or 2 hours 54 minutes. Wikidata lists 162 minutes. Silent, black and white, 1.33:1. It is one title in the series 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012. De Rovera also directed The Olympic Games Held at Chamonix in 1924 and the short The Olympic Games as They Were Practiced in Ancient Greece. That short is a different film.
Themes
Background
The film is a silent record of the Paris summer Games of 1924, issued the following year.
Preservation
The picture is in the International Olympic Committee series 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012, a set of restorations of the official films. A copy is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- The people on screen are athletes at the Games, not a dramatic cast. Wikidata lists Abrahams, Nurmi, Ritola, and Weissmuller.
- The Criterion Channel note names Borotra, Lacoste, and Helen Wills in the tennis tournament.
- An IMDb title card reads: "Wrestling. Catch-as-catch-can at the Winter Velodrome.
- A commons file titled for the ancient-Greece short is not this picture.
Scenes
- Weissmuller is in the swimming coverage.
- Nurmi, Ritola, and Abrahams appear in the track events.
- The tennis tournament includes Borotra, Lacoste, and Helen Wills.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-the-olympic-games-in-paris-1924)
- Criterion Channel