September 5 (2024)
February 13, 2025 12:15 PM - Subscribe
During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, an American sports broadcasting team must adapt to live coverage the Israeli athletes being held hostage by a terrorist group.
This is a movie that starts running hard and fast from the first minute and never lets up. If you watch this in a theater, go to the bathroom beforehand.
And yeah, one of the unexpected joys of this film is seeing the amazing low-tech way that TV shows did special effects.
For example: Putting a name at the bottom of the screen during someone's interview was done by sticking white refrigerator magnets of letters onto a black metal surface, pointing a TV camera at it, and then mixing that video signal with the main camera's signal while they're broadcasting the interview.
posted by Harvey Kilobit at 9:20 PM on February 13 [4 favorites]
And yeah, one of the unexpected joys of this film is seeing the amazing low-tech way that TV shows did special effects.
For example: Putting a name at the bottom of the screen during someone's interview was done by sticking white refrigerator magnets of letters onto a black metal surface, pointing a TV camera at it, and then mixing that video signal with the main camera's signal while they're broadcasting the interview.
posted by Harvey Kilobit at 9:20 PM on February 13 [4 favorites]
They showed similar retro title creation in the SNL backstory movie Saturday Night, as they filmed the scrolling credits of white letters on a black background.
posted by emelenjr at 8:26 AM on February 14
posted by emelenjr at 8:26 AM on February 14
I enjoyed "September 5." I loved the production values. In the future, any rewatch will precede a rewatch of "Munich."
posted by Stuka at 9:49 PM on February 18 [1 favorite]
posted by Stuka at 9:49 PM on February 18 [1 favorite]
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