Video Library
Pagination
Half-hour interview with Otto Lang, pioneer ski instructor and Hollywood director. Glenn Miller music.
Der Schwarze Blitz (the black lighting) from Kitz escapes from a couple of cops in this clip from a feature film. After his racing career, Toni Sailer became a matinee idol in Austria.
At Bad Gastein, Sailer takes three gold medals and a silver; Lucille Wheeler wins two golds and a silver.
Before the Nosedive was widened, the infamous "seven turns" made racers intimate with the hardwood forest.
Christian Pravda's winning run at Are, Sweden, in the 1954 World Alpine Championships. With Anderl Molterer, Stein Eriksen and Martin Strolz. British Pathe newsreel.
Half-hour interview with Emile Allais, with historical film clips of Garmisch, Chamonix and Jean Vuarnet's gold medal run at Squaw Valley. In French.
Matthias Zdarsky began teaching his own technique for alpine skiing at Lilienfeld, near Vienna, in 1896. This commemorative film recreates his equipment, technique and teaching methods.
Directed by ski-film pioneer Arnold Fanck, this 1928 drama features Leni Riefenstahl and Luis Trenker, with Hannes Schneider as "The Mountain Guide." This is the downhill racing segment, and it looks like Schneider dropping the flag for the geschmozzel start.
Video magic shows Franz Klammer and Bernhard Russi head-to-head -- a classic duel.
At Schladming. From Austrian television.
Haybales for safety! From Austrian television.
Ingemar Stenmark's Olympic victories -- this is the best of alpine skiing in the final years of bamboo gates.