Cross Country Skiing 1977
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Channel: Historic Films Stock Footage Archive · 2013 · Sports
For licensing inquiries please contact Historic Films Archive (www.historicfilms.com / [email protected]) 00:42:12 CROSS COUNTRY SKIING: PAN SNOW COVERED BIRCH TREES, PINES AT THE EXCLUSIVE WINTER DOMAIN OF COUNTRY SKIER. LS FIGURE OF COUNTRY SKIER IS SEEN AS SHE APPEARS THROUGH THICK WOODS, COMING TOWARDS CAMERA. TAKING LONG WALKING STRIDES ON SKIS AS SHE MOVES SWIFTLY ALONG. 00:42:51 SKIER TAKES TUCK POSITION AS SHE GLIDES DOWN HILL. MALE CROSS-COUNTRY SKIER SPRINTS ALONG, FOLLOWED CLOSELY BEHIND BY ANOTHER. 00:43:04 PICTURESQUE TRAPP FAMILY LODGE, STOWE, VERMONT. FIRST COUNTRY SKI CENTER IN AMERICA. OPEN IN 1972. PRACTICED FOR YEARS IN EUROPE, IT IS ONLY NOW CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING CAUGHT IN IN U.S. LITTLE BOY STRUGGLES THROUGH SNOW, SKIS IN HAND. 00:43:20 CU WOMAN RUNS TORCH OVER SET OF SKIS, HELD IN VISE ON WORK TABLE, RUBS WAX OVER HEATED SURFACE. RACK OF SKIES BEHIND HER. 00:43:37 CU HAND OF SKIER LOCKING SKI SHOES TO SKIS, READYING FOR CROSS-COUNTRY RUN. WOMAN INSTRUCTOR SHOWS YOUNG GIRL HOW TO SWING ARMS IN GRACEFUL NORDIC SLIDE, AS THEY HEAD TOWARDS CAMERA. GIRL HEADS AWAY FROM CAMERA, FALLS. 00:44:10 CU YOUNG MITZI KANE, MEMBER OF U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM, MAKES HUGE STRIDES, PASSING OTHERS AS SHE TRAINS FOR OLYMPIC GOLD. SHE BURNS FIFTY KILOMETERS OF SKI TRAIL EACH DAY. MITZI HEADS TOWARDS CAMERA AS SHE PASSES MANY OTHER SKIERS ON TRAIL. SHE NARRATES AS SHE SKIS 00:45:32 PAN FEET OF YOUNG, OLD SKIERS, THEIR LONG SKIES, POLES AS THEY LINE UP AT STARTING LINE FOR CROSS-COUNTRY DERBY, A TRADITIONAL EVENT THEY NERVOUSLY PREPARE FOR CONTEST. EVERYONE PARTICIPATES, YOUNG, OLD, NOVICE, EXPERT. 00:45:50 SKIERS, FACING CAMERA, WEARING NUMBERS, READY AS OFFICIAL YELLS OUT COUNT-DOWN, "FOUR, THREE. TWO, ONE, GO!" DOZENS TAKE OFF. SKIERS GO THROUGH FIELDS, MEADOW, FARMLAND, OVER HILLS, AND FINALLY THROUGH CENTER OF TOWN. 00:46:33 WHITE HUSKY DOG RACES AFTER YOUNG WOMAN AS SHE CLIMBS HILL. GROUP PLOW UP HILL IN SINGLE LINE. CU TIME CLOCK TICKS AWAY. 00:46:44 CU YOUNG MAN CROSSES IN FRONT OF JUDGES AT FINISH LINE. WOMAN STOPS, LEANS HER HEAD DOWN IN EXHAUSTION. LARGE DOG WALKS OVER.
