The boys of '36

Resource Information

The work The boys of '36 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Delaware County District Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The boys of '36

Statement of responsibility

an Elastic String Productions film for American experience ; produced by Margaret Grossi, Mary Carillo ; written by Aaron R. Cohen ; directed by Margaret Grossi

Title variation

Boys of 1936

Contributor

• Goodman, Joel
• trueEgan, Timothy
• Grossi, Margaret
• Dugas, Mark
• Krause, Benjamin
• Cohen, Eric
• trueLarge, David Clay
• Chan, Samson
• Mallory, Peter
• trueBrown, Daniel James, 1951-
• PBS Distribution (Firm)
• Platt, Oliver
• Elastic String Productions
• Samels, Mark

Commentator

• Cohen, Eric
• trueLarge, David Clay
• trueEgan, Timothy
• Mallory, Peter
• trueBrown, Daniel James, 1951-

Composer

• Krause, Benjamin
• Goodman, Joel

Director of photography

• Chan, Samson

Editor

• Dugas, Mark

Narrator

• Platt, Oliver

Television director

• Grossi, Margaret

Television producer

• Samels, Mark

Subject

• Brown, Daniel, 1951- -- Television adaptations
• Sports television programs
• University of Washington -- Rowing | History
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• trueDocumentary television programs
• Historical television programs
• Nonfiction television programs
• Olympic Games, 1936, Berlin, Germany
• trueRowers -- United States -- Biography
• trueRowing -- United States -- History

Genre

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• trueBiography
• Documentary television programs
• Historical television programs
• Nonfiction television programs
• Sports television programs
• Television adaptations

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

"In 1936, nine working-class boys from the University of Washington took the rowing world and the nation by storm when their eight-oar crew team captured the gold medal at the Olympics in Berlin. These sons of loggers, shipyard workers and farmers overcame tremendous hardships--psychological, physical, economic--to beat not only the Ivy League teams of the East Coast, but Adolf Hitler's elite German rowers. The boys' unexpected victory, and the obstacles they overcame to achieve it, inspired a nation struggling to emerge from the depths of the Depression. The Boys of '36 recounts their remarkable journey"--Container

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Edited by Mark Dugas ; director of photography, Samson Chan ; original music by Joel Goodman & Benjamin Krause ; executive producer, Mark Samels

Dewey number

797.12/30973

Intended audience

Not rated

Language note

English language soundtrack with optonal English subtitles

PerformerNote

Narrator, Oliver Platt ; commentators, Daniel James Brown, Eric Cohen, Timothy Egan, Bob Ernst, David Clay Large, Peter Mallory, Marilynn Moch, Michael Moch, Judy Willman

Runtime

60

Series statement

American experience

Target audience

general

Technique

live action