Video List
Comprehensive guide through the galaxy of
alpine ski racing videos on the internet
A) List by the
Year
a1) Interwar and WWII period (1928
– 1945)
a2) Postwar period (1946
– 1966)
World Cup
b1) 1967 – 1980
b2) 1981 – 2000
c1) 2001 – 2020
c2) 2021 – 2030
B) List by the Event or Resort
b1) List by the Event
b2) List by the Resort
Asian and
Southern Hemispere venues
Lake Louise and other Canadian
venues
C) Colections
(1) Institutional
(1928 - 1974)
(1936 - 1980)
INA (Institute
National des Archives)
(1937 - 1972)
(1949 - 2002)
(1950 - 1978)
SWISS TV (sfr.ch)
(2003 - 2008)
(2012 – 2020+)
(2) Individual
Yuri Sirko
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoWDq7BpTSzdgqsBg9Go-Og
(1948 - 1985)
Archeologia dello Sport
https://www.youtube.com/user/credideb/videos?disable_polymer=1
(1967 - 2000)
Gunde Wassberg
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoFoTXMPtnH6jGLE-RfCLgg
(1977 - 1983)
Inyo Ranger
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgDVJAiRp_LRASn5Z8NEBAw
(1982 - 1987)
westnyacktwins
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyh6Wrcsij3-SlORwwBC5Sg
(1984 - 1992)
Alexx87
https://www.youtube.com/user/ZundraF
(1985 - 2005)
theSKIchannel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYLX46EYK3a8SLb3_WrAR5Q/videos
(2014)
D) Longer videos
(over 25 minutes of TV transmissions)
(between 10 and 25 minutes of TV
transmissions)
An
Afterword
Not many Major prewar races were filmed, still
fewer were saved. By the 1950s
Newsreels were covering Major races and events
like Olympics and World
Championships more frequently. Usually three
cinematographers were covering
the race (one the start, other the finish, and
third some middle point) with footage
of more than half an hour, of which only a
minute would actually make it to
the Newsreel.
From 1958. and the first TV transmission of
Wengen and Grindelwald races,
a new era started, but it is unknown how many
of these transmissions are saved
in the archives, waiting to be digitized.
Untill around 1980s securing the broadcast
of a World Cup event was not a requirement for
becoming a host of one, so many
were not broadcasted at all.
Nevertheless, by that time Newsreel become a
fact of the past, and a new form of
tele-report was introduced (presumably by
Reuters). Such tele reports were consisted
usually of televised runs of top 3 finishers
which were distributed to news TV
channels not broadcasting ski events, and
which wanted to have some movable picture
to match a short news agency report of these
races.
By the 1980s another novelty appeared.
Expensive professional studio magneto-scopes
were substituted by much cheaper video
recorders, so beside official recordings there
was a sudden burst of private recordings,
which, now digitized, make bulk of the entries
in this Video List. Unfortunately, those video
heads were not always clean enough,
so in many cases pictures are of poor quality
(ppq).
In this digital era, many of these recordings
are now on the internet, and their average
length has significantly increased. So, for
each of the latest few years there are dozens
of videos longer than 10 minutes which was a
rarity before 1980s.
In this Video List, the internet addresses of
all free available alpine ski racing video
material are given, whether offered by
institutional providers, who own the videos,
or individual collectors, who are merely
presenting them. The List is structured in
such a manner that you can search the races by
the year, by the resort, or by
the provider. In many cases it is obvious that
videos for the majority of World Cup
races are still missing. It would be nice if
in the next edition of this List, videos for
many of them would appear, and particularly if
the Broadcasting Companies start
to digitize their Archives at a larger scale.