Harvard kids made a marathon doc in '64 and it's weirdly perfect.
Started as a class project in what was likely the first filmmaking course ever taught at Harvard, Marathon documents the running of the 1964 Boston Marathon.
Direction
Chopra and Gardner capture unguarded humanity in chaos.
Editing
Class-project constraints become artistic virtue.
Director
Joyce Chopra
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Robert Gardner later founded Harvard's Film Study Center; this was literally classwork that outlived the grade.
Shot the year before Bobbi Gibb's historic 1966 run—women were still unofficial, invisible, yet here one lingers in frame.
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