Winter Paradise
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Winter Paradise |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | 20 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Jay |
| script | Owen Crump |
| production | Cedric Francis |
| music | William Lava |
| camera | John Jay, Lois Jay |
| occupation | |
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Winter Paradise (alternatively Alpine Safari ) is an American documentary - short film by John Jay to 1953. Producer Cedric Francis was with the film for an Oscar nomination.
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The film takes us through winter paradises and shows the sporting opportunities that snow-covered landscapes offer. Jay also incorporated unusual sequences into his film. In the Parsenn skiing and hiking area above Davos, for example, he filmed the Austrian-German skier Hellmut Lantschner from a cable car , who drove down a snow-covered slope through deep snow and was followed by two converging avalanches. He escaped them, however, by heading for a tunnel from which he smilingly drove out on the other side in Klosters .
In a further sequence, Lois Jay filmed the then 18-year-old Finnish ski jumper Tauno Luiro first at close range at the moment he stepped onto the inrun of the Oberstdorf ski jumping hill. Gusts of wind had just buried the Italian Bruno Da Col , who had previously jumped , and he was seriously injured during the jump. Jay filmed Luiro's jump in slow motion from the stands, the young star sailed to a world record of almost 140 m.
However, Jay also showed so-called normal skiers in everyday scenes that convey a certain cosiness, which the commentary supported. He chose his introductory words as if he were introducing friends. He also zoomed in on skiers who were in trouble or frustrated.
production
Production notes
The film recordings were made in Arosa , Kitzbühel , Oberstdorf and in the skiing and hiking area Parsenn , above Davos and in Klosters .
Warner bought the John Jay and Cedric Francis in partnership with Vitaphone Corp. created the film and released it without any changes - except for the fact that the film was renamed Winter Paradise . John Jay was known for not boring viewers with endless sequences of skiers going down the slope. In such a case, the initial joy quickly subsides.
publication
Alpine Safari was released in Williamstown , Massachusetts in 1951 .
Winter Paradise was released in the United States in December 1953. The film was released in Denmark under the title Vinterparadis on December 4, 1961.
Award
John Jay and those involved in the making of the film took pride in the fact that the film, which was made by few people, was on a par with Walt Disney's winning film, In the Land of the Bear , a film that was shot and produced by a team of several hundred people.
Cedric Francis was nominated for an Oscar at the 1954 Academy Awards for the film in the category "Best Short Film (1 film role)" .
Web links
- Winter Paradise in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Alpine Safari see page skiinghistory.org (English).
- ^ A b Skiing Heritage, Journal of the international Skiing History Association, Vol. 8, Number 2, Spring / Summer 1996 - Skiing Down the Years with John Jay - The Golden Years of John Jay , pp. 19 + 20 (English).
- ↑ Winter Paradise see page skiinghistory.org (English).