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The official film, featuring men's and women's slalom and downhill (no GS), XC and jumping, American hockey victory over Soviets, speed and figure skating.
In 1963, Walt Disney turned Fred Iselins' 20-minute film about Susie Wirth into a 50-minute TV special, adding an avalanche and rescue for drama. The main character is Aspen, the town and mountain. For more detail see this Aspen Times article.
Commentary by ABC's Jim McKay and Andrea Mead Lawrence
With Andrea Mead, Sepp Ruschp and a cast of thousands.
The full-length (74-minute) version of Arnold Fanck's seminal The White Ecstasy, a ski-chase comedy featuring Hannes Schneider, Leni Riefenstahl, Guzzi Lantschner, Walther Riml and about two dozen of Schneider's St. Anton ski school instructors. Produced in 1930-31, the film helped spark popular interest in alpine skiing across Europe. Fanck held a PhD in geology and in the late '20s pioneered filmmaking about mountaineers and mountaineering. When the Nazis came to power in 1933 he at first refused to work with them but after an exile in Japan returned to Germany and joined the Nazi party in 1940. In the postwar years his films were banned by the Allied occupation and he was forced out of film-making. His work was revived for TV broadcast after 1957.
Presentation of the 2020 ISHA Awards, including comments by the authors.
John Fry was a journalist, editor-in-chief of SKI and Snow Country magazines, a founder of ISHA and long its president and chairman, historian and author. This 10-minute biography features a long interview with John, shot in Vail in 2006. Produced by Rick Moulton. See the John Fry obituary.
American Downhiller (Jalbert Productions) celebrates the US Ski Team men. But they've been girled. US women have won 15 Olympic and World Championship medals and ten World Cup downhill championships (plus three second-place season titles). Deb Armstrong recognizes Penny Pitou, Susie Corrock, Cindy Nelson, Holly Flanders, Hilary Lindh, Julia Mancuso and Lindsey Vonn.
56-minute history of American men in FIS and Olympic downhills. Footage of Buddy Werner, Andy Mill, Bill Johnson, AJ Kitt, Doug Lewis, Tommy Moe, Daron Rahlves and Bode Miller, with plenty of interviews. From Jalbert Productions and sponsored by Ski Racing.
Aasmund Kleiv of Morgedal makes a replica pair of Sondre Norheim's skis, using traditional techniques -- felling and splitting a dead pine, carving and bending the skis, braiding the willow bindings and gliding across a powderfield. In Norwegian with English subtitles.
From British Pathe, compiled around 1959, showing ski technique from around 1910 onwards. At :20 find footage from the 1937 Alpine World Championships. Bib number 14 is Emile Allais, winner of the downhill, slalom and combined gold medals that year.
Marius Eriksen Jr., older brother of Stein, was a pre-war alpine ski champion who became a nine-victory ace flying in a Norwegian squadron of the RAF before being shot down and captured. After the war he starred in a number of movies. The soundrack is "Winter Wonderland" by the pop group Monn Keys.
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