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In 1951, Mt. Hood's Timberline Lodge got a unique aerial tramway consisting of modified city buses crawling along steel cables. At just over three miles long, it was the longest aerial tram in the world, and attracted a lot of attention. But the lift closed for good just five years later. What led to the commercial failure of this spectacular technical leap forward? Peter Dribble's 12-minute film explains.
ISHA Award-winning film featuring small, independent ski resorts that preserve the community spirit of skiing. 34 minutes, Teton Gravity Research.
ISHA Award Winner, from Blue Danube Productions, 2021. 24 minutes, in German
A 90-minute film covering the highlights of the Games, including skating, hockey, ski jumping, cross-country, biathlon, luge and bob, and, of course, some of the most dramatic Alpine events ever filmed. Downhill at 13:20 men) and 37:00 (women), GS at 54:20 (men) and 1:09.30 (women), slalom at 1:03.28 (women) and 1:21.40 (men). Narration in French.
Dick Barrymore's 1971 release uses footage shot over a five-year period. Highlights of the 90-minute film include Jean Claude Killy winning the 1966 FIS downhill championship in Portillo (Guy Perillat threw a ski on the final bump), and 15 minutes of powder, bumps and jumps in Aspen, featuring Tom LeRoy, John Clendenin, Bob Smith, and Barrymore's future wife Betsy Glenn. Restored and digitized by Phonotone Movies.
2021 ISHA Film Award: This 34-minute video from Teton Gravity Research profiles half a dozen independent, mostly family-owned and -operated ski areas across the United States.
In 1951, Steve Bradley patented the XPG-1 Packer-Groomer, a 700-lb device piloted by a skier and designed to shave the tops off moguls and smooth the snow into a "groomed" skiing surface. See the full story here.
In French. Lots of great footage. The prehistory is oversimplified and incomplete, and the story of early Alpine skiing is presented out of order, implying that military skiing preceded civilian skiing. The reverse is true. Civilians began skiing for fun in the Alps, in significant numbers, around 1889-90, after the publication of Nansen's book On Skis Across Greenland. The French, Swiss and Italian mountain troops adopted skis more than a decade later. The film also claims that Hannes Schneider was responsible for locking the heel down, when that distinction belongs to Walter Amstutz and Guido Reuge. It credits Emile Allais with inventing parallel skiing; in reality, like everyone else, he learned it from Toni Seelos. Nice to see footage of Marie Marvingt, but the film credits her only with fashion innovation, ignoring her role in early ski racing and jumping for women, and the fact that she established the first ski school in France. The entire work is told from a narrow Franco-Swiss perspective, and it skips over a lot of important developments. Nonetheless this is a handsome, well-made 52-minute film and fun to watch. Just don't believe everything you hear. --Seth Masia
Ski school director Emo Henrich hired Austrian ski instructors who could oompah-pah.
29th Annual ISHA Awards, presented April 29, 2021.
Arnold Fanck's first ski film, released December 1920.
At the very height of the ski boom came this 25-minute tour of the U.S. West, with Gustavo Thoeni, Tyler Palmer, Barbara Ann Cochran, Jean Claude Killy, Herman Goellner, Stein Eriksen, Corky Fowler, Billy Kidd and a cast of thousands. A lot of great powder skiing -- on GS skis!
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