Video Library
Silent film of the 1928 Winter Olympics, by Arnold Fanck. One hour, 42 minutes.
Moderated by Charlie Sanders, president of the North American Snowsports Journalists Association and ISHA Board member; with Chris Gloninger, meteorologist and climate educator; Wendolyn Holland, renewable energy consultant to the US Dept of Energy, and ISHA Board member; and Seth Masia, ISHA president and former executive director of the American Solar Energy Society.
Why do meteorologists and ski journalists avoid covering global warming as it affects winter sports? What has skiing, as a sport and business, done to protect itself against the loss of snowmaking weather and natural snowpack? How will a warming climate affect the sport and the business in the near future?
2024 Skiing History Week Vintage Fashion Show, hosted by ISHA VP Wini Jones, former designer and marketing chief at Roffe. Surprise celebrity appearances. 42 minutes.
Guzzi Lantschner, the Austrian Alpine skier who took German citizenship in 1936 in order to compete in the 1936 Olympics (he took silver in Alpine Combined), spent WWII as a cameraman for Leni Riefenstahl, making Nazi propaganda films. After the war he emigrated to Bariloche, Argentina, and directed this Spanish-language rom-com set on the slopes and in the deluxe hotel of the Catedral ski area. Lantschner himself plays a local photographer. The plot hinges on the flirtation of a glamorous blonde journalist with an Ecuadorean ski racer, who has eyes only for a team-mate. Silly plot, but plenty of great skiing footage in spectacular scenery. One of the skiers is Tahoe's favorite Argentine, Osvaldo Ancinas, then a slim 20-year-old. 74 minutes.
At the height of America's ski boom, director Roger Brown tours top U.S. destinations with a cast of world-class skiers. 25 minutes.
25-minute interview with Otto Lang, including a lot of footage shot in Austria and the USA beginning around 1932.
An oral-history interview with Peter Miller, SKI Magazine writer/photographer, by Rick Moulton.
Wini Jones, longtime designer and marketing chief at Roffe, shows off her spectacular collection of skiwear from the 1960s thru '90s. Surprise guest appearance by Wayne Wong. 82 minutes.
For the 2023 ISHA John Fry Lecture, Bode Miller talks about the skis he used throughout his racing career. Interviewed by Seth Masia. 72 minutes.
Clips from a Dick Barrymore film, with follow-on ski action from the 1970s. One blunder in the narration: Count Felix Schaffgotsch was Austrian, not Swiss. He was also a Nazi. After teaching at Sun Valley for three winters, when war broke out he joined the Waffen-SS and was killed in 1942 fighting on the Eastern Front.
In the final years of her career, Lindsey Vonn petitioned FIS to compete with men. They never relented. Now, in retirement, she finally has had a chance to ski the Hahnenkamm course--thanks to a Red Bull promotion. Under lights, on a still, cold night.