Editing Triumph of the Will (section)

==Influences and legacy==
[[File:Dictator charlie2.jpg|thumb|[[Charlie Chaplin]] as Adenoid Hynkel in ''[[The Great Dictator]]'']]
''Triumph of the Will'' remains well known for its striking visuals. As one historian notes, "many of the most enduring images of the [Nazi] regime and its leader derive from Riefenstahl's film."<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Power of Film Propaganda: Myth or Reality? |last=Reeves |first=Nicholas |year=2003 |orig-year=1999 |publisher=Continuum |location=London; New York |isbn=0-82647-390-3 |page=107 }}</ref>

Extensive excerpts of the film were used in [[Erwin Leiser]]'s documentary ''Mein Kampf'', produced in Sweden in 1960. Riefenstahl unsuccessfully sued the Swedish production company Minerva-Film for copyright violation, although she did receive forty thousand marks in compensation from German and Austrian distributors of the film.<ref name=Trimborn240>{{Cite book |title=Leni Riefenstahl: A Life |last=Trimborn |first=Jürgen |year=2007 |publisher=Faber and Faber |location=New York |isbn=9780374184933 |page=[https://archive.org/details/leniriefenstahll00trim/page/240 240] |url=https://archive.org/details/leniriefenstahll00trim |url-access=registration }}</ref>

[[File:Lambeth Walk - Nazi Style - by Charles A. Ridley.webm|thumb|''[[Schichlegruber - Doing the Lambeth Walk]]'' or ''Lambeth Walk – Nazi Style'', a short propaganda film made in 1942 by Charles A. Ridley of the [[British Ministry of Information]] editing clips from ''Triumph of the Will'' to make appear as if Hitler and other Nazis were marching to [[The Lambeth Walk]], a dance craze that the Nazis despised.]]
In 1942, Charles A. Ridley of the [[British Ministry of Information]] made a short propaganda film called among other names ''[[Schichlegruber - Doing the Lambeth Walk]]'' and ''Lambeth Walk – Nazi Style'', which edited footage of Hitler and German soldiers from the film to make it appear they were marching and dancing to the song "[[The Lambeth Walk]]".<ref group=note>See {{section link||External links}} for video</ref> The targeted-at-Nazis film was a parody of "The Lambeth Walk," a British dance that had been popular in swing clubs in Germany and was denounced by the Nazis as "Jewish mischief and animalistic hopping."<ref>"Nazis Hold Lambeth Walk is 'Animalistic Hopping'", ''[[The New York Times]]'' January 8, 1939, p. 26</ref> The propaganda film was distributed uncredited to newsreel companies, who would supply their own narration.<ref name="Parody">{{cite magazine|title=The Goofy, Anti-Nazi Parody Video That Enraged Goebbels|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/02/12/_lambeth_walk_nazi_style_the_goofy_anti_nazi_parody_video_that_enraged_goebbels.html|magazine=Slate magazine|date=9 February 2016}}</ref>

[[Charlie Chaplin]]'s satire ''[[The Great Dictator]]'' (1940) was inspired in large part by ''Triumph of the Will''.<ref name=Trimborn123ff>Trimborn, pp. 123–124.</ref> [[Frank Capra]] used significant footage, with a mocking narration in the [[Prelude to War|first installment]] of the propagandistic film produced by the United States Army ''[[Why We Fight]]'' as an exposure of Nazi militarism and totalitarianism to American soldiers and sailors.<ref>Rollins, Peter C (ed.). (2003) “Indoctrination and Propaganda, 1942–1945” The Columbia companion to American history on film: How the movies have portrayed the American past. Columbia University Press. pp. 118.</ref>