Historic Videos

This newsreel, Sno’ Time For Learning produced by Paramount Pictures in 1949, is an entertaining glimpse back into a unique moment in time.  It was shown in movie theaters throughout the country before the feature film.

This silent film montage shows scenes of the 40 meter jump on Chipman Hill, early ski trails at the Snowbowl and the “new” 50 meter ski jump, Mountain Club outings to the winter woods, and even “aero-skijoring” on Lake Champlain. Winter Carnival the way it was in the middle of the last century!

Videos courtesy of Special Collections & Archives at Middlebury College