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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPioneering ski porn filmmaker Warren Miller has died
Warren A. Miller, the pioneering snow-sports filmmaker whose infectious zeal for the pure freedom associated with skiing, snowboarding and other pursuits inspired multiple generations of adventure-seekers around the globe, died Wednesday at his home on Orcas Island. He was 93.
A quick-witted, self-taught filmmaker who first filmed his own scenes for an annual self-narrated ski movie shown in small venues, Mr. Miller produced more than 500 adventure-sport films. His name, carried forward in a sports-media company, Warren Miller Entertainment, from which he was disassociated in his later years, became synonymous with snow sports across North America.
To his legions of fans, Mr. Millers annual ski flick amounted to cinematic manna from heaven an overdue shot of cold air and deep snow to stoke the fires within winter warriors who had suffered through the long, hot months of snowless summer. The films, most of which began with jaw-dropping alpine-ski sequences, featuring top skiers and snowboarders delivered by helicopter to some knee-knocking heights and set to a pounding rock-music beat, never failed to produce hooting, shouting and delirium among the snow-deprived faithful.
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hlthe2b
(102,342 posts)CaptainTruth
(6,600 posts)... one of my employees (Angus) was a snowboarder. He introduced me to Miller's work, I loved it.
Several years ago there was a TV commercial where a snowboarder flew over an SUV on a mountain road (I think it was for Toyota, or maybe Nissan), that snowboarder was Angus.
Every Christmas he would get deliveries at the office of snowboards from various manufacturers, he must have accumulated a couple hundred boards over the years, if he kept them all.
RIP Warren...
Botany
(70,567 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,157 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)while being filmed by the camera man who captured the entire run by skiing backwards in front of the skier matching him turn by turn. When the skier arrives at the bottom of the mountain the camera man arrived in time ahead of the skier to record all of the fans coming up to congratulate the skier.
iamateacher
(1,089 posts)And he brought a lot of joy to people...