NESM Film Sampler and The Man in the Red Flannel Suit

Date1996

Can DescriptionsSkiing is the subject of this compilation of short excerpts from films in the New England Ski Museum collection. The films range from the 1930s to the 1960s and cover a wide variety of skiing subjects in a number of locations. White Ecstasy (The Ski Chase), 1931, b&w: Arnold Fanck and Hannes Schneider collaboration, co-starring Leni Riefenstahl. The story of a fox hunt on the slopes of At. Anton in Austria. Slalom (Abenteuer Im Engadin), 1932, b&w: German comedy action epic by Arnold Fanck, filmed at St. Moritz in Switzerland. Sclitz on Mount Washington, 1935, b&w:Lowell Thomas narrates the adventures of Dr. Wolfgang Schlitz on the slopes of Tuckerman Ravine, full of daring do, comic pranks and spring skiing. Ski Larks, 1939, b&w: Lavish Hollywood / newsreel style portrait of Hannes Schneider, Mount Cranmore and North Conway. Dr. Quackenbush Skis the Headwall, 1942, color: Sidney Shurcliff filmed comedy classic in New Hampshire's White Mountains including Mt. Cranmore, Wildcat Race Trail, Tuckerman's Ravine. Let's Go Skiing, circa 1940, color: Snow Train film promotes winter sports vacation in New England. Olympic Victory, 1952, color: John Jay filmed 1952 winter games in Oslo, Norway, including gold medal vistories by Stein Ericksen and Andrea Mead Lawrence. Flame in the Snow, 1960, color: Official film for the 1960 winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California. The Man in the Red Flannel Suit, circa 1950, color: Short comedy about a couple of rustic Vermonters who board city skiers at their farmhouse in Stowe.