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.