Directed by Heribert Meisel • 1960 • West Germany

This documentary of the VIII Olympic Winter Games Squaw Valley 1960, directed by Austrian sports journalist and sometime screen actor Heribert Meisel, is the first known visual record of an edition of the Winter Games in the United States. A West German-U.S. coproduction, PEOPLE, HOPES, MEDALS accentuates the novel and romantic aspects of these Games.