Video Library
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.
A clip from North Country, the ISHA Award-winning film about Joe Lahout, long-time owner of Lahout's Country Clothing and Ski Shop of Lincoln, New Hampshire
The Ruud brothers, Sigmund, Birger and Asbjorn, with their friends from Kongsberg, dominated ski jumping from 1928 to 1948. Birger, the only athlete to win an Olympic downhill AND jump, reminisces with friends about their early training. In Norwegian.
PODCAST: John Fry and Marc Girardelli talk about World Cup history with NBC's Steve Porino and Scott Lyons. From Ski Racing Media. Who were the greatest racers of the World Cup era?
A quick review of Rossignol's history, beginning with military competions in 1907-08. For more detail, see 100 Years of Rossignol.
Bob Woodward recalls the norpine era, when stalwart backcountry skiers revived the art of the Telemark using 55mm skis, three-pin bindings and leather boots.