Muhammad Ali training for George Foreman. | Short Film "48 Hours with Muhammad Ali"

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Short Film: 48 Hours with Muhammad Ali
Directed by: Daniel Glynn
Produced by: Mat Hodgson, Daniel Glynn
Cast: Muhammad Ali, George Forman

On July 18th, 1974, freelance photojournalist Peter Angelo Simon, got a loud knock on his hotel room door at 4.30am. "Grab your pants and your camera. The Champ is running" said a gruff voice from behind the door. The Champ in question was Muhammad Ali and Peter's assignment was to take him deep into the inner circle of perhaps the most famous man on the planet at that time; a man who was on the comeback trail, a man who was about to embark on perhaps his most famous fight, "The Rumble in the Jungle". Peter spent an intense 48 hours at Ali's personal training camp, dubbed "Fighters Heaven", deep in the Pennsylvanian countryside. For decades, 95% of the photographs Peter captured have remained unseen and this film showcases them for the very first time. Peter captured Ali unguarded and in a never to be repeated way by anyone else. They are unique and the results are as surprising as they are striking. This intimate, dreamlike documentary, relayed by an old man looking back on a key formative moment in his artistic life from his studio in Brooklyn, examines the alchemy of the photographic process, the strange nature of the passing of time and is an unguarded, quite unique look at a crucial moment in the life of a 20th-century icon.

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