The Titan: Story of Michelangelo

The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
Directed by	Robert J. Flaherty Richard Lyford Curt Oertel
Produced by	Ralph Alswang Robert J. Flaherty Robert Snyder
Written by	Norman Borisoff
Narrated by	Fredric March
Cinematography	Harry Ringger
Edited by	Richard Lyford
Distributed by	Classic Pictures
Release dates	1950 (1950)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	English

The Titan: Story of Michelangelo is a 1950 German documentary film. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.^[1]^[2] In 1952 it became the first feature-length documentary to be shown on network television.^[3]

The film was a re-edited version of a German/Swiss film of 1938 originally titled Michelangelo: Life of a Titan, directed by Curt Oertel. The re-edited version put a new English narration by Fredric March and a musical score onto a shorter edit of the existing film. The new credits include Robert J. Flaherty, Oertel and Richard Lyford as Directors and Ralph Alswang, Flaherty and Robert Snyder as Producers. The film was edited by Richard Lyford.

The Academy Film Archive preserved The Titan in 2005.^[4]

Cast

Fredric March as Himself/Narrator

References

↑ "The 23rd Academy Awards (1951) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
↑ Crowther, Bosley. "NY Times: The Titan: Story of Michelangelo". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-11-07.
↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043050/combined
↑ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.

External links

The Titan: Story of Michelangelo at the Internet Movie Database

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

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