White Rock (film)
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White Rock German poster includes movie of Genesis in concert
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| Directed by | Tony Maylam |
| Produced by | Michael Samuelson |
| Written by | Tony Maylam |
| Narrated by | James Coburn |
| Music by | Rick Wakeman |
| Cinematography | Arthur Wooster |
| Edited by | Gordon Swire |
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| Distributed by | Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein (US) |
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76 mins |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
White Rock is a 1977 documentary film about the 1976 Winter Olympics held in Innsbruck, Austria. The film was narrated was James Coburn, and directed by Tony Maylam. The film was nominated in 1977 for the Robert Flaherty Award (Feature Length Film, Documentary In Content) by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. A soundtrack album, White Rock was released by Rick Wakeman in 1977 and it entered the UK Albums Chart on 12 February 1977, where it spent 9 weeks and reached number 14.
Michael Samuelson was given the chance to make the 1976 Winter Olympics film, and he contacted Tony Maylam to direct and write the film. However, they felt that only two films had "worked". Olympia by Leni Riefenstahl of the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin and the Kon Ichikawa film Tokyo Olympiad of the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo. Yet they decided that they didn't want the film to be a documentary, but a feature film.
We came up with the concept of dealing with just six events - with each having its own theme and being representative of a particular sport. For example, among the Alpine sports, we've really gone all-out for the Men's Downhill - which is the glamorous, prestigious event rather than including the Ladies' Downhill, the Men's Slalom or the Men's Giant Slalom, events which the average viewer knows nothing about. We felt it would be better to choose a relative few of the representative sports of the Winter Olympics and do them really well, as opposed to spreading our coverage...With the James Coburn involvement we have given our audience a way to experience what it feels like to do these things.
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