Leni Riefenstahl and the Tube--A Lethal Combination?

[RICHARD ROMEO]

Eerie, horrific....weird.  Just look at her eyes while viewing Truimph of 
the Will--she's in ecstasy.  I particularly liked her early party 
conference film (1933?)--them nazi's just couldn't march right or avoid 
bumping into all those seig heils.  It's comic those guys trying to find 
their proper spaces.(but kinda hard to laugh...)

BTW in TOFW who is the third person beside Hitler and Himmler as they 
waltz between all those millions?.  Not young boy loving Ernst? killed in 
34?  

My final observation:  the amounts of marching humanity in her film, the 
sheer inhumanity of the spacings and choreography, the sheer numbers of 
people reminded me of all things Woodstock!





Richard Romeo

Coordinator of Cooperating Collections

The Foundation Center-NYC

212-807-2417

rromeo at fdncenter.org