The 1936 Berlin Olympics became the first Olympic Games carried on live television: using Telefunken equipment, the German Post Office transmitted more than seventy hours of black and white coverage to public viewing rooms in Berlin and Potsdam, where more than 162,000 people in total followed the competitions on screens outside the stadium. Leni Riefenstahl's two part documentary Olympia, released in 1938, recorded the Games separately from the television transmission and pioneered techniques still used in sports cinematography today.
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Milestone Year LocationBerlin and Potsdam, Germany 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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