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Television Coverage. The 1936 Games were the first to be broadcast on television. Twenty-five television viewing rooms were set up in the Greater Berlin area, allowing the locals to follow the Games free of charge. Young Olympians. Thirteen-year-old Marjorie Gestring of the U.S. won the gold medal in springboard diving.
The Olympic Games have been broadcast on television since the 1936 Summer Olympics.
1 to 16 August 1936 | Berlin (GER) Overview. Olympic Summer Games. GO OLYMPIC. GET ALL THIS. Stream free live sport events. Unlimited access to series.
24 sty 2023 · Whereas much coverage of the 1936 Summer Olympics is available thanks to the film Olympia, all live television coverage of the Berlin Games is now permanently missing, as there were no means of directly recording television prior to the years after the Second World War.
The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: Olympische Sommerspiele 1936), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: Spiele der XI. Olympiade) and officially branded as Berlin 1936, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, Germany.
Closed circuit television coverage of the Berlin 1936: Summer Olympics Games of the XI Olympiad, an international multi-sport competition that took place in and around Berlin, Prussia, Germany from 1 August 1936 through 16 August 1936. Stars. Dhyan Chand. Dean Cromwell. Henri de Baillet-Latour.
The 1940 Olympics were scheduled for Tokyo but neither those Games nor the 1944 Olympics would be held because of World War II. When one thinks of the Berlin Games, don’t remember Hitler and how he tried to control the 1936 Olympics – remember Jesse Owens and how he did.
