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Auction History Result 3a290 WAYS TO STRENGTH AND BEAUTY German program '25 nude Leni Riefenstahl in her 1st movie ever! Date Sold 8/12/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage German Film Program (measures 9" x 12" [23 x 30 cm]; 8 pages) (Learn More) Wege zu Kraft und Schonheit - Ein Film uber moderne Korperkultur (released in other English-speaking countries as "Ways to Strength and Beauty"), the 1925 Wilhem Prager German silent naturist documentary featuring Leni Riefenstahl (in her very first film appearance!), Jenny Hasselqvist, Josef Holub, and archive footage of Jack Dempsey and Johnny Weissmuller. Note that this is a REALLY wild movie, even beyond it being Riefenstahl's first appearance (and she's naked!). The movie predates the American "naturalist" craze of the early 1930s by around six years, and it pretends to be a sort of "nudist" documentary, extolling the virtues of life without clothes, and it shows lots of teenagers and young adults dancing and playing sports in the nude, and of course, most people's interest in seeing the movie was watching all the naked people! Riefenstahl is not credited, but she plays one of the nude dancers in the movie! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that the nude dancer on the cover may well be Leni Riefenstahl and there are nude dancers on the third page that represent the seasons, and we would think Riefenstahl is there as well. Also note that there are images on the last interior page showing nude males doing the hammer throw and other gymnastics, and there is an image of two men boxing (shown from the waist up, but presumably nude), and one of them is a black man! Also note that this is a "country of origin" item for this German movie! Note that German programs from the early 1920s are INCREDIBLY scarce, especially from major movies. This is almost certainly because of the great paper shortages in Germany during World War II, during which all earlier paper was recycled, which means virtually no pre-World War II German paper survives. Also note that we have pictured the front cover, and two interior 2-page spreads from this program. Finally, note that this program contains unclothed women, so we have placed white bars over those areas, for those who are bothered by such images. Of course, the actual program does not have those white bars! Condition: very good. The program is printed on a newsprint like paper and it is fragile around the edges with a few small tears. There is pen writing in the top left corner of the front cover. Learn More about condition grades 
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