Product Review

Product Features
7 classic films on 4 DVDs
Featuring the best of Otto Lang, John Jay and Dick Barrymore
Five hours of vintage alpine skiing movies
Films span 1938-1971
The best classics: Winter Magic Around the World, The Best of John Jay, The Basic Principles of Skiing, Ski Flight, Skifully Yours, The Performers, and The Last of the Ski Bums
See Hollywood stars from the 1930s on the slopes in Sun Valley!
Footage of locations, from New Mexico and Colorado to Switzerland and Japan

Product Description
Seven classic ski films by three legendary filmmakers!

Skiing s Best
Relive the golden age of alpine skiing with seven classic titles from three legendary filmmakers Otto Lang, John Jay and Dick Barrymore in Classic Ski Films. See five full hours of ski history, from the world s very first theatrical ski film premiering at Radio City Music Hall to European glacier skiing!

Seven Films
Winter Magic Around the World (1946-1970) by John Jay is part global travelogue and part thrilling ski spectacle while The Best of John Jay (1946-1970) is a greatest hits compilation covering Vail to Zermatt. The Basic Principles of Skiing (1941) by Otto Lang was used to train United States mountain troops. Ski Flight (1938), the first theatrical ski film, demonstrated the Arlberg System, and Skifully Yours (1939) focused on the star-studded Sun Valley ski scene in the late 30s. Dick Barrymore s The Performers (1971) ushered in the freestyle revolution and The Last of the Ski Bums (1967) follows the European exploits of three footloose American skiers.

Legendary Filmmakers Otto Lang was an entrepreneur, a ski instructor to the stars and an Academy Award-nominated documentarian. John Jay was a Rhodes Scholar and respected ski filmmaker, and is considered the grand-daddy of the modern ski-film road show. Dick Barrymore was a Los Angeles fireman before he earned his global reputation as one of the greatest ski filmmakers of all time.