Director Tim Fehlbaum's new film September 5 is centered on how the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre changed the way media outlets cover major global stories, especially those involving acts of terror.
Director Tim Fehlbaum's team obtained 1970s era television equipment from collectors, museums and television studio storage rooms for the set of his filmThe 1972 Munich Olympics kicked off under the banner of hope and peace, hosted by a country eager to turn the page nearly three decades after the fall of the Nazi regime.
The film is set almost entirely in the ABC Sports control room and focuses on the real-time challenges faced by the broadcasters who improvised to get the audience as close as possible to the story. Some of the team's heftiest challenges included making sure their live coverage didn't inadvertently share with the armed extremists — via television screens the hostage takers might access — law enforcement's moves and potentially broadcast hostage killings to the entire world.Geoffrey Mason was a young ABC Sports producer when he played a critical role in deciding what to show the world about the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.
The director, who is based in Switzerland, recalled how production buyer Johannes Pfaller at one point told him that all early 1970s era technology still in Europe was now in the film studio in Munich.
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