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
(1975
- 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 middlepoint) 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 archives, waiting to be digitized.
Untill around
1980s securing the broadcast
of 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
usually consisting of televised runs of
top 3
finishers which were distributed to
news TV channels not broadcasting ski
events, 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
magnetoscopes were substituted by much
cheapper
video recorders, so beside
official recordings there was a suden
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 lenght 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 adresses
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.