Winter Sport Movies

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

An amusing view of the machine that has taken the country by winter storm: the snowmobile, revving, raring, ready to go. What the motorboat was to...

It is one of the toughest races in alpine skiing: the Patrouille des Glaciers. Frédéric Favre accompanied three participants for a year...

Showing hundreds of boys, girls and adults on skis descending a steep snow-covered bank.

Along New Zealand’s South Islands runs the mighty chain of the Southern Alps, where large and beautiful glaciers and Ice-falls abound among the...

An official training film from the War department. In April 1942, a detail of five enlisted men and two officers, Capt. Paul Lafferty and Lt. John...

With its 33,000 kilometers of marked trails and its tens of thousands of kilometers of off-trail circuits, Québec is a snowmobile paradise. In...

Two years in the making, "Life Sure Is Sweet" is a independent coming-of-age snowboard documentary produced by the creative collective TDI...

The first section shows the "crew" bestriding the bob-sledge and starting same down bill. The second section includes pictures of many sledge...

Quebec stands 200 feet above the lower town, dominating the entire landscape. Along Duffern Terrace there runs the toboggan slide, which at night is...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

A wonderfully successful film taken in Switzerland and showing experts in the great annual competition. In three parts: 1. Jumping from a stage 2....

Released in 1919, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

This exciting and somewhat dangerous sport has attained a popularity at all the Swiss winter resorts that is really remarkable. The film depicts in a...

An official training film from the War department. In April 1942, a detail of five enlisted men and two officers, Capt. Paul Lafferty and Lt. John...

A documentary illustrating the mountain sports activities of the university students of the GUF (Gruppi universitari fascisti) in Val Gardena,...

Much nerve is required by those who participate in this sport as some of the curves of the course are most acute and dangerous, especially at the...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith