Old school climbing movies?

Anyone know of a place, physical or online, where I can find some old climbing films? Seems like most are available online after the film circuit nowadays, looking for older ones, think VHS era.

Meow Sherwood wrote: Anyone know of a place, physical or online, where I can find some old climbing films? Seems like most are available online after the film circuit nowadays, looking for older ones, think VHS era.

Which ones?

Here's one from YouTube - Rumney - Team Tough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZD-3fBpqNo&t=22s

This Fred Padula film El Capitan is the classic old school climbing documentary.  It was the Free Solo of it's day. I think this links the reproduction.  

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4257072/

Chessler Books usually has all kinds of old movie.

YouTube search StoneMasters 

Meow Sherwood wrote: Anyone know of a place, physical or online, where I can find some old climbing films? Seems like most are available online after the film circuit nowadays, looking for older ones, think VHS era.

VHS hahahahaha, those are not the older ones. The older ones are on 16mm.

Florence Holland wrote:

You can search on YouTube or Google search

That is incredibly helpful! I’ve never heard of this Google you speak of, sounds like orc mischief actually...

Hello, I recently came across this page which references climbing films: http://www.tvmountain.com

jephthah deontrae wrote:

Hello, I recently came across this page which references climbing films: http://www.tvmountain.com.

If you understand French. 

Speaking of 16mm, I remember one such film that was shown at an Arizona Mountaineering Club meeting in the mid-70s about a solo climber. He picks up a little frog in a creek, puts it in his shirt pocket, proceeds to bag the summit, then drops the frog off in the creek on his way down. (Or something like that.) Anyone know what film that was? Definitely old school. 

Daniel Joder wrote:

Speaking of 16mm, I remember one such film that was shown at an Arizona Mountaineering Club meeting in the mid-70s about a solo climber. He picks up a little frog in a creek, puts it in his shirt pocket, proceeds to bag the summit, then drops the frog off in the creek on his way down. (Or something like that.) Anyone know what film that was? Definitely old school. 

Mike Hoover - "Solo"

https://www.rockandice.com/videos/climbing/solo-1974-oscar-nominated-short-film/

https://archive.org/details/solo_20170221

Thanks, Mat!!!

You can probably download the movie "Solo" from the internet archive. It resides there. The film's color suffers from the transfer. It was referenced previously in a recent thread on MP. 

Teton Climber wrote:

You can probably download the movie "Solo" from the internet archive. It resides there. The film's color suffers from the transfer. It was referenced previously in a recent thread on MP. 

It's here:

https://www.rockandice.com/videos/climbing/solo-1974-oscar-nominated-short-film/

and here:

https://archive.org/details/solo_20170221

Just rewatched “Solo” after 40+ years. Wow. Thanks for posting the link. For the period, that was quite a production. I can’t imagine the logistics of setting up so many shots in so many different locations with heavy and awkward 16mm film gear.  A whole lot of work for 15 minutes running time. I think we went off and did Bishop’s Balcony (clean) because of this film… and the film also really shows how all those Yosemite pin scars were made. Well done, Mike Hoover. 

https://vimeo.com/284267960

Roger Briggs climbing on the Diamond, Longs Peak.

https://www.patagonia.com/stories/mountain-of-storms/video-79735.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=&utm_content=alwayson&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7MPKjZOd9QIVFweRCh1ymQ40EAAYASAAEgLJsvD_BwE

Doug Thompson and Yvon Chouinard on Fitz Roy

Andrew Reed wrote:

https://vimeo.com/284267960

Roger Briggs climbing on the Diamond, Longs Peak.

This was so adorably over the top. ROCK KEVIN! 

https://vimeo.com/284267960#t=553s

Amazon prime video has tons of classics... most used to be free.  Now you gotta buy almost all of them.  My favorite was vertical frontier!