World's Ski-Ing Record (1928)

Full titles read: “World Ski-ing record broken - by Villeumier of Switzerland in International Championship contests at Pontresina ..... with marvellous leap of 240 feet!“ Pontresina, Switzerland. L/S of crowds of people on skis and in horse-drawn sleighs, making their way across the snow to the competition area in the Swiss mountains. Several L/Ss show competitors coming down a long ski-jump; nice M/S shows a group of men looking astonished as they watch someone skiing past on the jump. Various L/Ss in slow motion of men taking huge leaps from the ski-jumps - very effective! They look like they're flying. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic