Library Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1997.21.6 |
Object Name |
Video |
Title |
Snow Carnival |
Summary |
Dick Durrance Films and Warner Brothers present: "Snow Carnival". This technicolor film shows various buildings (Court House, Aspen Country Store, Wheeler Opera House, The Miners Den, Ski Barn, Floradora, The Red Onion, The Gay Nineties, and a haunted house) around Aspen, Colorado, shares songs, ski joring, dog teams, Aspen Ski School, children's ski racing, Lift No. 1, ski jumping, and various Hall of Fame members like Dick Durrance, Fred Iselin, Friedl Pfeifer, Gordy Wren, Marvine Crawford, and Buddy Werner. Back in 1948, Aspen Ski School co-director Fred Iselin had talked Warner Brothers into producing a short film by offering his friend Gary Cooper as a narrator, calling it Snow Carnival, with himself as a ski clown and Dick Durrance shooting, a promotional for Aspen, then struggling through its second winter as a destination resort without all that many destinees arriving. Source: Skiing Heritage Journal 1997 |
Date |
1950 |
Accession number |
1997.21 |
Author |
Durrance, Dick |
Lexicon category |
8: Communication Artifact |
Classification |
Colorado Snowsports Hall of Fame Aspen Aspen Ski School Aspen Historic Buildings |
Condition |
Excellent |
Imagefile |
010\1997216-2.PNG |
Notes |
This film was played at the Colorado Winter Sports Film Festival - which was a fundraiser for the Colorado Ski Museum, Steadman-Hawkins Sports Medicine Foundation, and the Vail Ski Club. The festival showed other popular films by John Jay, Roger Brown, and Warren Miller. |
People |
Durrance, Dick Iselin, Fred Cooper, Gary Crump, Owen De La Varre, Andre Pfeifer, Friedl Wren, Gordy Crawford, Marvin Knoll, Gary Werner, Buddy |
Physical Description |
VHS, 21 mins, Technicolor, Sound |
Publisher |
Durrance Enterprises, Inc. |
Search Terms |
Lifts School Skiing Buildings Aspen Colorado Instruction Racing Competition Hall of Fame Skimares Jumping |
Status |
Digitized-Shelf |
Lexicon sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Subjects |
Aspen, Colorado Aspen Skiing Corporation Ski train Historic Aspen Buildings Court House Aspen Country Store Wheeler Opera House The Miners Den Ski Barn Floradora The Red Onion The Gay Nineties Haunted House Songs Ski joring Ski racing Dog teams Aspen Ski School Ski Lift No. 1 Skimares Ski jumping |