Leni's Rising Star

Fencing from Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia (1938, RealVideo 01:56). "...Leni Riefenstahl's depiction of the fencing competition in Olympia is a brilliant example of the use of Light and Shadow on film — if not, indeed, an example of it virtually by definition of the terms. In the first portion of this clip it is the shadows that we see fencing, not the fencers themselves, however, Contrast continues to play an important part in the remainder of this sequence, with the fencers' white outfits set against the dark backdrop of the night sky." From Leni's Rising Star - A Celebration of the Cinematic Spirit of Leni Riefenstahl.