I think this is the earliest movie that I can remember seeing prolonged skiing scenes. As a lifelong skier, I'm surprised I haven't seen it mentioned before in any kind of ski publication.
shareAlso lots of skiing in Leni Riefenstahl's "The Holy Mountain", which was made in the 1920s.
shareTCM recently ran a 1929 Norwegian silent film called Laila (tt0020075)
It's about a girl raised in Finnmark, the northern most region of Norway. There's a lot of skiing and large herds of reindeer. The story line is also nicely done. It is one of my favorite silent films mostly for the depiction of culture I grew up knowing as Lapplanders.
Perhaps the lack of mention is because even skiing magazines don't approve of bigots, racists, or Nazis, whether their name is Drumpf or something else.
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