Thanks Mr. Biglow as a former yet lower boat participant your video is only one I can handle since it is not hype. I've been sent copies of the book even given tickets to the movie but deferred both and your depiction most honors my time there.
13:23 George was a mentor for this crew … he appears in a short movie called: Rowing: A Symphony of Motion …it’s a great art, is rowing, it’s the finest art there is, it’s a symphony of motion and when your rowing well it’s nearing perfection and when your nearing perfection your touching the divine which is the you of you’s which is your soul.
Remarkable bit of sports history we have here! The train we see is a passenger special and debut of the Milwaukee's new Olympian Hiawatha. It would make its first scheduled run on June 29, 1947, departing both Tacoma and Chicago on that day.
Many people of this time are beyond inspirational. The way they SURVIVED. The gumption. I don't know what words to use. These people they just, they just move on, they don't complain. They were hungry, had very little in shelter, clothing, etc. They just carry on; what else can you do, right? It makes me feel so inadequate and spoiled. I am grateful and I know people shouldn't have to suffer that way. But it truly is inspiring. They were grateful, humble, willing to work. The way we are today is just gross.🥺
Harry Rantz and the pitiful excuse for a human being, Thula, should have been jailed for their treatment of Joe Rantz. I think Joe may be one of the greatest men I have ever read about. RIP hero. Thula got her karma, though.
I received this book as a Christmas gift from a friend-customer of mine. (each year she got me a book). At first I wondered how it would be possible to hold my attention with the telling of winning at Berlin by an American Crew Team????......well, ...it never let me down and I rate it as one of the BEST books I have ever read....And If you read it yourself, I bet you say the same.
It is possible that you and I met. I worked at the 1984 Olympics helping the athletes who resided in the dorms at UCSB. Sadly, my strongest memory is just how roided out the Eastern Block athletes were, the females especially. This was during the Cold War and the Soviets abused steroids a lot before the tests got better.
So you baSICALLY did fucking zero EXCEPT STICK THE THING IN THE THING WHERE THE GAS GOERS AND STICK THE KEY IN THE HOLE .. SO YOUR A WANNABEE MIDLIFE CRISIS WANNABE COOL CAR MAN LOOKING FOR THE COOL FACTOR YOU WOULD never ON YOUR DYING DAY EVER HAVE WITHOUT A CAR .. WOW AIN'T YOU DREAMY...
Thank tou John for your many posts. Rowing really needs an actual museum so that all of the amazing films like this dont get lost. Your channel is effectively a nice museum of amazing rowing
This is great. I gave some photos of this event to Eric Cohen who posted them on the history site. A friend's father, Robert Ball, attended this event and took a series of pictures. They had been stored in a box for 50 years until my friend, his son, Joe Ball, looked through the box and was scanning things. He gave me copies of the pictures and I sent them to Eric.
Great clip, I read the book a few years ago. Particularly interested in the other (USA) Olympians of 1936. The video mentioned other athletes which "they had met" while in Germany. They missed a very important individual...from Pasadena, California...none other than Mathew MacKenzie "Mac" Robinson (Silver; 200 Meters) behind James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens. Both runners broke the Olympic record. Need I explain whom Mr. Robinson's younger brother was? #42
John, Thank you for your wonderful documentary on this story. I was a Husky crewman for one year as a freshman at UW and very much enjoyed your discussion. You should continue making documentaries on this Channel
It is definitely one of the best books I have ever read, too----teamwork/working together has been my mantra no matter what group I was with or project we were doing. Thank you, Daniel Brown for narrating this incredible story AND for the lessons we have all gleaned from the book.
Great job pulling the background info together and presenting the additional detail. A superb story on many levels and happy to see that it's being produced as a movie.
Our 8 of sr. women rowers won the gold on Lake Washington in a national competition. I was 64yrs old and started rowing in my 50s. It was a wonderful achievement. I loved watching these films. It brings it all back. Thanks.
I knew a little about it, but the book was so much more! My grandfather’s life was similar, but without the education. When his mom died in Idaho, he and his sister were dumped in an orphanage. Grandpa ran away. The new stepmom wanted nothing to do with him. Grandpa became a logger. I live near Sequim now. Abandoning children was so common then.
I read the book which was fabulous. We saw the movie this past weekend which was BEYOND FABULOUS !!!! What a great story and film. George Clooney did a great job. Highly recommend both.
