1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:35,905 --> 00:00:38,647 [birds chirping] 4 00:00:47,090 --> 00:00:51,094 [slow music] 5 00:00:51,138 --> 00:00:53,183 [Warren] I was telling stories one night, 6 00:00:53,227 --> 00:00:54,793 in our place on Orcas Island... 7 00:00:56,795 --> 00:00:59,624 and somebody said, "Do you know, Warren, maybe, maybe there's some people... 8 00:01:01,104 --> 00:01:05,456 who would like to come and hear you talk about the old days." 9 00:01:07,806 --> 00:01:09,243 And I said, "Well, how far back should I go?" 10 00:01:09,286 --> 00:01:10,635 And they said, "Why don't you go back to 11 00:01:10,679 --> 00:01:12,028 the start of the whole thing?" 12 00:01:18,034 --> 00:01:18,948 [interviewer] Welcome. 13 00:01:20,428 --> 00:01:22,647 -Where do I get to sit? -[interviewer] That's here. 14 00:01:22,691 --> 00:01:23,996 -Is this for me? -[interviewer] Yes. 15 00:01:25,128 --> 00:01:26,564 [Warren] It's really a fancy tripod. 16 00:01:26,608 --> 00:01:29,741 [interviewer] Yeah, so it's a Dana Dolly, right? 17 00:01:31,221 --> 00:01:34,268 Really nice, looking big budget production. 18 00:01:34,311 --> 00:01:38,359 [interviewer] No, it's not, tape is cheap here, [chuckles] times have changed. 19 00:01:38,402 --> 00:01:39,621 Oh, boy, have they? 20 00:01:42,711 --> 00:01:46,018 [slow upbeat music] 21 00:01:49,761 --> 00:01:54,462 When I first saw a Warren Miller movie, I was blown away that, 22 00:01:54,505 --> 00:01:56,028 that level of skiing existed. 23 00:01:58,335 --> 00:02:01,208 [Kristen] I don't think that people would have really understood 24 00:02:01,251 --> 00:02:05,734 how magnificent the skiing lifestyle actually is, 25 00:02:05,777 --> 00:02:07,953 without him capturing it in cinema. 26 00:02:14,264 --> 00:02:16,614 [Jonny] Warren was able to package that up 27 00:02:16,658 --> 00:02:19,051 and sell it to the world. 28 00:02:19,095 --> 00:02:23,186 If skiing ever had a chief marketing guy, it was Warren Miller. 29 00:02:23,230 --> 00:02:25,493 [Brian] He shot it, edited it marketed it, 30 00:02:25,536 --> 00:02:27,190 took it out on the road. 31 00:02:27,234 --> 00:02:30,541 Every year it was like Christmas morning 32 00:02:30,585 --> 00:02:32,891 going to see the Warren Miller film. 33 00:02:33,805 --> 00:02:36,460 [Greg] I got to step through that magical looking glass 34 00:02:36,504 --> 00:02:39,159 and they were in this fantasy world that Warren created. 35 00:02:42,162 --> 00:02:46,688 Warren Miller is skiing, was his recipe. All the staff in his films said, 36 00:02:46,731 --> 00:02:48,037 "Everybody's so pumped up 37 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:49,865 and so excited for the coming season." 38 00:02:51,693 --> 00:02:54,043 [Dan] I always think the mistake they made is, 39 00:02:54,086 --> 00:02:56,567 they're thinking they're going to watch a movie. 40 00:02:56,611 --> 00:02:59,222 You know, a Warren Miller film is an experience. 41 00:03:01,311 --> 00:03:05,141 That 90 minutes in that theater, you got taken away. 42 00:03:11,016 --> 00:03:13,454 [Warren] Always portrayed my life as perfect. 43 00:03:15,064 --> 00:03:19,721 And according to any skiers in the world that I want to do... and did. 44 00:03:19,764 --> 00:03:23,028 And why try to convince the audience of anything different? 45 00:03:24,291 --> 00:03:28,251 Let them have this... kind of fantasy thing 46 00:03:28,295 --> 00:03:30,166 about this wonderful life I led. 47 00:03:40,437 --> 00:03:42,918 One of the questions I get asked the most is, 48 00:03:43,788 --> 00:03:46,226 "Where did you start skiing and how was it?" 49 00:03:47,314 --> 00:03:50,621 When I first started there were two chairlifts in California, 50 00:03:50,665 --> 00:03:52,928 one the Sugar Bowl and Mount Waterman 51 00:03:52,971 --> 00:03:55,583 which was only 50 miles from where I lived in Hollywood. 52 00:03:55,626 --> 00:03:58,847 [slow upbeat music] 53 00:04:01,110 --> 00:04:03,373 I was really active in the Boy Scouts 54 00:04:03,417 --> 00:04:07,334 that's how I went the first time, I was, uh-- 55 00:04:07,377 --> 00:04:09,118 Oh, boy, 13 or 14? 56 00:04:10,337 --> 00:04:13,253 When you put on a pair of skis, and it can to go from A to B 57 00:04:13,296 --> 00:04:17,648 with absolutely zero physical exercise, 58 00:04:18,780 --> 00:04:21,609 it was a different sensation and I responded to it, and... 59 00:04:22,740 --> 00:04:24,916 it really opens all the gates to freedom. 60 00:04:26,918 --> 00:04:28,746 [narrator] The exhilaration of controlled flight 61 00:04:28,790 --> 00:04:31,662 through a world of snow, it's an end in itself. 62 00:04:31,706 --> 00:04:33,664 Yet this is only part of the story. 63 00:04:36,058 --> 00:04:38,060 [Warren] As a kid I lived these two different lives. 64 00:04:38,103 --> 00:04:41,019 One on the weekends with the Boy Scouts, 65 00:04:41,063 --> 00:04:43,108 and during the week with my parents. 66 00:04:44,632 --> 00:04:47,983 My father, he never really paid too much attention to myself, 67 00:04:48,026 --> 00:04:50,812 and the attention he paid it all was to my two sisters. 68 00:04:51,943 --> 00:04:54,859 [Andy] Warren grew up in a dysfunctional family, 69 00:04:54,903 --> 00:04:58,210 even though they had bits of success here and there, 70 00:04:58,254 --> 00:05:03,955 he-- his father actually was a fairly famous radio announcer 71 00:05:03,999 --> 00:05:07,611 who had his career derailed by the great depression. 72 00:05:08,830 --> 00:05:11,963 After the depression everything was different. 73 00:05:14,052 --> 00:05:16,141 With my father drinking the way he drank, 74 00:05:16,185 --> 00:05:18,753 it was-- I would do anything to get out of the house. 75 00:05:20,102 --> 00:05:23,540 He'd spend a dollar and a half or two dollars a day on alcohol, 76 00:05:23,584 --> 00:05:27,544 and come home, you know, reasonably intoxicated. 77 00:05:28,458 --> 00:05:30,852 He never knew when he was going to blow up, 78 00:05:30,895 --> 00:05:32,070 that was the hard part. 79 00:05:34,203 --> 00:05:37,511 I played partially basketball for three years in high school, 80 00:05:37,554 --> 00:05:39,730 and never saw me shoot a basket 81 00:05:39,774 --> 00:05:42,951 or write a surfboard or turn a pair of skis. 82 00:05:42,994 --> 00:05:44,518 Nobody in my family ever saw me. 83 00:05:44,561 --> 00:05:47,303 My mother never saw me, my sisters never saw me. 84 00:05:48,173 --> 00:05:50,741 You know, they were completely disinterested in anything I was doing. 85 00:05:51,655 --> 00:05:53,091 I was really a renegade... 86 00:05:54,354 --> 00:05:57,792 I was different than the four of them. 87 00:05:57,835 --> 00:06:00,316 [piano music] 88 00:06:01,491 --> 00:06:04,233 I was never home on weekends, I was always somewhere else. 89 00:06:05,234 --> 00:06:08,019 I could ride my bicycle down to San Pedro 90 00:06:08,063 --> 00:06:09,543 or Malibu in the morning. 91 00:06:11,849 --> 00:06:15,505 [Ward] In our surfers, way back, 92 00:06:16,463 --> 00:06:19,422 he had the worst surfboard I ever saw in my life. 93 00:06:19,466 --> 00:06:21,685 [laughs] 94 00:06:21,729 --> 00:06:24,732 [Warren] I met Ward Baker one day at Manhattan beach 95 00:06:24,775 --> 00:06:27,865 because he lived five or six blocks from the pier, 96 00:06:27,909 --> 00:06:29,867 and we started surfing together. 97 00:06:31,391 --> 00:06:33,262 [Ward] It was straight on break. 98 00:06:33,305 --> 00:06:35,612 So we didn't get really good shape wave... 99 00:06:37,919 --> 00:06:42,358 surfing and I can't believe I surfed [laughs] all those years. 100 00:06:44,926 --> 00:06:46,928 [announcer] Today's army is the most mechanized 101 00:06:46,971 --> 00:06:49,278 freedom force ever assembled 102 00:06:49,321 --> 00:06:51,323 into your army recruiters office. 103 00:06:52,499 --> 00:06:55,937 [Warren] The day that you turned 18 you had to register. 104 00:06:55,980 --> 00:06:58,592 If you didn't register, you'd get drafted. 105 00:06:58,635 --> 00:07:02,639 And I didn't want to sleep in a wet foxhole. 106 00:07:02,683 --> 00:07:04,249 So I enlisted in the Navy. 107 00:07:05,337 --> 00:07:07,862 [Ward] It was not fun [chuckles] going down 108 00:07:07,905 --> 00:07:11,953 to some God awful office in Los Angeles. 109 00:07:13,128 --> 00:07:15,696 [Warren] The Navy, you don't have two minutes to yourself. 110 00:07:15,739 --> 00:07:18,481 They tell you what time to get up, what time to brush your teeth, 111 00:07:18,525 --> 00:07:22,267 what time to fall out and do your early morning exercises. 112 00:07:23,834 --> 00:07:26,663 And I really resented that loss of freedom. 113 00:07:26,707 --> 00:07:29,187 [car engine roaring] 114 00:07:30,493 --> 00:07:32,103 So I made up for it when I got out. 115 00:07:33,278 --> 00:07:35,890 [slow music] 116 00:07:38,022 --> 00:07:40,155 [Ward] He said, "Let's go skiing!" 117 00:07:41,286 --> 00:07:43,419 So what the hell's that? 118 00:07:43,463 --> 00:07:46,204 It's no good, take the skis here and 119 00:07:46,248 --> 00:07:49,338 put them on a flat weight [mumbles] no fun. 120 00:07:49,381 --> 00:07:51,906 Hell I know, I'm a beach boy. 121 00:07:55,257 --> 00:07:58,913 Anyway, he talked me into it. [laughs] 122 00:07:58,956 --> 00:08:01,263 [rock music] 123 00:08:04,396 --> 00:08:07,965 We would just go up two skiers up in the mountains here. 124 00:08:08,009 --> 00:08:10,315 And he said, "It's good, I've been there." 125 00:08:10,359 --> 00:08:12,753 [Warren] I was able to borrow the car from my sisters 126 00:08:12,796 --> 00:08:15,364 to tow the little Teardrop trailer. 127 00:08:15,407 --> 00:08:16,539 What else did we need? 128 00:08:17,540 --> 00:08:19,324 [Ward] There was no heat, 129 00:08:19,368 --> 00:08:22,110 we had a little cook stove out in the back. 130 00:08:23,024 --> 00:08:26,114 [Warren] We didn't even buy a chairlift ticket because we didn't have enough money 131 00:08:26,157 --> 00:08:28,029 to last us the whole time. 132 00:08:28,072 --> 00:08:31,685 So we just climbed, skied down, climb up again, skiing down. 133 00:08:33,904 --> 00:08:35,863 We just had a good time, I couldn't believe it. 134 00:08:37,865 --> 00:08:39,867 [Ward] We stayed the whole damn winter. 135 00:08:41,521 --> 00:08:44,480 I thought they'd throw us out but they didn't. 136 00:08:44,524 --> 00:08:47,222 [slow music] 137 00:08:49,137 --> 00:08:51,661 [Warren] There's one way from Southern California weather, 138 00:08:51,705 --> 00:08:54,359 I think the coldest we ever saw was 32 below. 139 00:08:55,622 --> 00:08:59,408 I think it took a certain degree of stupidity to do all that. 140 00:08:59,451 --> 00:09:01,976 If you weren't as stupid as he and I were, 141 00:09:02,019 --> 00:09:03,891 you couldn't ski all winter long. 142 00:09:06,154 --> 00:09:08,939 You've left the city to go to the mountains. 143 00:09:08,983 --> 00:09:11,899 That's when you're assumed to be a Ski Bum. 144 00:09:13,030 --> 00:09:15,729 I was doodling one day in my trailer when I created that, 145 00:09:15,772 --> 00:09:19,254 it was the year after Squaw Valley. 146 00:09:19,297 --> 00:09:20,908 It was very personal, 147 00:09:20,951 --> 00:09:25,521 oversize pack that didn't fit, skis that were too short 148 00:09:25,565 --> 00:09:27,567 was my perception of me. 149 00:09:27,610 --> 00:09:30,526 In Squaw Valley we wore light blue packers 150 00:09:30,570 --> 00:09:33,616 and had not just figured the red was a better 151 00:09:33,660 --> 00:09:37,098 fit for a cartoon and that's the way it turned out. 152 00:09:39,753 --> 00:09:41,711 [Dan] A Bum is sort of living in the moment, you know, 153 00:09:41,755 --> 00:09:44,714 sort of is willing to sacrifice something 154 00:09:44,758 --> 00:09:47,499 for his own personal greater or good. 155 00:09:47,543 --> 00:09:49,153 [Brad] Warren is the ultimate Ski Bum. 156 00:09:49,197 --> 00:09:52,504 You know, he always stuck to what he had a passion for it. 157 00:09:52,548 --> 00:09:54,332 And not many people do that in this world. 158 00:09:54,376 --> 00:09:55,899 You know, Warren Miller was at Sun Valley 159 00:09:55,943 --> 00:09:58,206 living in a trailer shooting rabbits 160 00:09:58,249 --> 00:10:00,687 and making rabbit stew with Ward Baker. 161 00:10:00,730 --> 00:10:02,819 [Warren] Ward was skinning them in the shower 162 00:10:02,863 --> 00:10:07,171 and I was cutting them in the wash basins of the scare charlotte. 163 00:10:07,215 --> 00:10:09,260 And there was blood and guts everywhere, 164 00:10:09,304 --> 00:10:10,871 and they thought that somebody 165 00:10:10,914 --> 00:10:12,612 had been murdered in the bathroom. 166 00:10:14,701 --> 00:10:19,183 We went back to our trailer and put the rabbits to freeze underneath that night, 167 00:10:19,227 --> 00:10:21,185 and the next night we had them for dinner... 168 00:10:23,057 --> 00:10:24,754 it worked. 169 00:10:24,798 --> 00:10:26,669 [Greg] You did what you had to, 170 00:10:26,713 --> 00:10:29,237 to stay on the hill and get on the lift. 171 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:32,066 [John] You'll take any job, any low paying job 172 00:10:32,109 --> 00:10:33,850 and you'll never really amount to much, 173 00:10:33,894 --> 00:10:35,765 except you'll probably be a pretty good skier. 174 00:10:35,809 --> 00:10:37,985 [Brian] We found a way to make a living in the industry, 175 00:10:38,028 --> 00:10:42,642 whatever it took. My first job as a 14-year old was cleaning bathrooms 176 00:10:42,685 --> 00:10:44,948 just to get a season pass. 177 00:10:44,992 --> 00:10:48,386 [Colby] I think it has become a little derogatory 178 00:10:48,430 --> 00:10:51,346 where people think, "Oh, you're just a Bum, you don't care about anything." 179 00:10:51,389 --> 00:10:55,742 It's just someone who's so passionate and perfectly happy 180 00:10:55,785 --> 00:10:59,571 with the thing that they want to do that they just 181 00:10:59,615 --> 00:11:01,922 do it, even if they're poor and broke 182 00:11:01,965 --> 00:11:05,490 and starving and cold and alone. 183 00:11:05,534 --> 00:11:07,057 I like being a Ski Bum. 184 00:11:08,885 --> 00:11:11,453 [Dan] People have said to me, "You have so much more than a Ski Bum." 185 00:11:11,496 --> 00:11:13,803 And I just say, "No, that's the essence of it 186 00:11:13,847 --> 00:11:16,240 because it's, it's a lifestyle, it's a choice." 187 00:11:17,328 --> 00:11:20,767 And those choices have almost killed me and they've saved me. 188 00:11:21,768 --> 00:11:24,727 [Warren] Just by living in the parking lot, I was different than everybody 189 00:11:24,771 --> 00:11:26,990 that was paying $30 a night in the lodge. 190 00:11:28,209 --> 00:11:30,472 I always felt I had more fun than anybody else. 191 00:11:31,865 --> 00:11:34,519 [Dan] When you're free of materialistic things 192 00:11:34,563 --> 00:11:37,174 and you're chasing a passion or a dream, 193 00:11:37,218 --> 00:11:40,830 then been a Ski Bum isn't derogatory, 194 00:11:40,874 --> 00:11:42,527 it's, it's more a state of mind. 195 00:11:46,706 --> 00:11:47,968 [Warren] Eventually you end up skiing 196 00:11:48,011 --> 00:11:49,970 at every resort from Denver West. 197 00:11:51,406 --> 00:11:52,929 There weren't very many in those days, 198 00:11:52,973 --> 00:11:54,714 California had two chairlifts. 199 00:11:57,238 --> 00:11:59,980 Colorado had Aspen and Arapaho basin 200 00:12:00,023 --> 00:12:02,373 that was winter park that was about it. 201 00:12:02,417 --> 00:12:04,680 It was a long way, expensive. 202 00:12:06,203 --> 00:12:09,293 We finally got a job at the Snowpine Lodge at Alta. 203 00:12:09,337 --> 00:12:11,948 [Ward] They always needed ski instructors. 204 00:12:11,992 --> 00:12:15,735 So I was a ski instructor in the first year I was skiing. 205 00:12:16,736 --> 00:12:18,738 [chuckles] You tell me how I did that. 206 00:12:19,695 --> 00:12:22,306 [Warren] They gave us 25 cents an hour, 207 00:12:22,350 --> 00:12:25,222 and all the hamburgers we could eat. 208 00:12:25,266 --> 00:12:28,356 We put a couple of hamburgers in our pocket for lunch 209 00:12:28,399 --> 00:12:29,966 when we weren't working there. 210 00:12:32,229 --> 00:12:36,059 That's all we wanted to do, we just wanted to be better skiers and ski more places. 211 00:12:37,974 --> 00:12:40,803 I could mingled with the people 212 00:12:40,847 --> 00:12:43,414 living in their backyard in a trailer, 213 00:12:43,458 --> 00:12:44,807 it was a different world. 214 00:12:44,851 --> 00:12:46,809 I could put on a bow tie and a tweed suit 215 00:12:46,853 --> 00:12:48,811 and go to the lodge dining room 216 00:12:48,855 --> 00:12:50,682 with anybody that would buy my dinner. 217 00:12:50,726 --> 00:12:52,815 I couldn't afford to go do it myself, 218 00:12:52,859 --> 00:12:55,296 so I was seen occasionally on the lodge dining room 219 00:12:55,339 --> 00:12:57,559 where I'd go to dinner a couple of high school girls 220 00:12:57,602 --> 00:12:59,822 [stutters] were there for learning to ski a week 221 00:12:59,866 --> 00:13:01,215 and we had been teaching them 222 00:13:01,258 --> 00:13:03,347 and they bought our dinners for us. 223 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:09,092 One night when I was sleeping and somebody... 224 00:13:10,528 --> 00:13:12,356 makes my shoulder and I didn't know 225 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:15,838 who the hell it was, in the middle of the night! 226 00:13:16,970 --> 00:13:21,670 [mumbles] There is this good looking blonde saying, 227 00:13:21,713 --> 00:13:24,194 "I need some place to sleep." 228 00:13:24,238 --> 00:13:27,545 I said, "Oh, yeah, why here take mine. 229 00:13:27,589 --> 00:13:32,289 It's dirty as hell, but you can sleep, there's no problem." 230 00:13:32,333 --> 00:13:37,033 She didn't want to sleep. [laughs] 231 00:13:37,077 --> 00:13:38,948 I don't know what happened to her. 232 00:13:38,992 --> 00:13:42,256 [camera shuttering] 233 00:13:42,299 --> 00:13:44,736 [Warren] I got a little eight millimeter camera 234 00:13:44,780 --> 00:13:46,347 to see how we skied 235 00:13:46,390 --> 00:13:50,438 and I saw movies of myself skiing that he had taken 236 00:13:50,481 --> 00:13:52,701 and I saw some of him that I had taken. 237 00:13:55,269 --> 00:13:58,838 I just got hooked, I got hooked on shooting a movie. 238 00:13:58,881 --> 00:14:01,275 [slow music] 239 00:14:02,145 --> 00:14:05,148 As a boy I wonder if you could ever make a living at this... 240 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:08,978 but getting that good is not a simple task. 241 00:14:21,599 --> 00:14:26,300 I remember seeing a John Jay movie in Sun Valley when we went up up there, 242 00:14:26,343 --> 00:14:29,085 there was probably 30 people there. 243 00:14:30,043 --> 00:14:34,351 Everybody except Ward and I had paid money to watch him. 244 00:14:34,395 --> 00:14:35,700 We snuck in the back way. 245 00:14:37,528 --> 00:14:39,226 [announcer] Buddy, I have a problem, they got out of camera range 246 00:14:39,269 --> 00:14:41,141 then you take your well roll camera out. 247 00:14:41,184 --> 00:14:43,534 They said next year equally well one cheek 248 00:14:43,578 --> 00:14:46,102 and take off after your subject on skiing. 249 00:14:48,017 --> 00:14:49,932 [Warren] I can remember very vividly 250 00:14:49,976 --> 00:14:51,934 I was walking back to our trailer 251 00:14:51,978 --> 00:14:53,457 in the parking lot that night. 252 00:14:54,502 --> 00:14:57,070 I said, "You know what? If that guy can make a living 253 00:14:57,113 --> 00:15:01,813 with that quality of photography, somebody else can too." 254 00:15:01,857 --> 00:15:03,946 That's when the pathway opened for me 255 00:15:03,990 --> 00:15:07,950 to become a ski filmmaker and I owned my skills 256 00:15:07,994 --> 00:15:10,648 taking pictures of guys making turns on mountains. 257 00:15:10,692 --> 00:15:14,609 [slow dramatic music] 258 00:15:14,652 --> 00:15:17,960 I analyzed everything he did, his advertising and his promotion. 259 00:15:19,135 --> 00:15:23,444 I sent a letter of inquiry to him on a fictitious name 260 00:15:23,487 --> 00:15:25,750 and saw how he operated. 261 00:15:26,621 --> 00:15:28,101 [Greg] Rumor has it that Warren 262 00:15:28,144 --> 00:15:31,452 portrayed himself as, you know, an innocent bystander, 263 00:15:31,495 --> 00:15:34,977 but he was really there to do a reconnaissance 264 00:15:35,021 --> 00:15:37,327 on how to do his own skiing movies. 265 00:15:37,371 --> 00:15:40,069 [Warren] I figured if he was getting $400, 266 00:15:40,113 --> 00:15:43,333 I could find some business at half that price. 267 00:15:43,377 --> 00:15:45,988 I'm not surprised, I did the same thing to Warren. [chuckles] 268 00:15:46,032 --> 00:15:49,035 [slow upbeat music] 269 00:15:52,038 --> 00:15:54,431 The weather melted all the snow and my mother said, 270 00:15:54,475 --> 00:15:56,607 "You need to get a life [chuckles] and a job." 271 00:15:59,959 --> 00:16:04,180 I was fading away from making movies 272 00:16:04,224 --> 00:16:06,835 and Warren was getting into it more. 273 00:16:06,878 --> 00:16:11,883 But then I'd taken about 25 rolls, so I had $250 invested. 274 00:16:11,927 --> 00:16:14,103 [camera shuttering] 275 00:16:23,939 --> 00:16:27,943 [Warren] You never thought about how expensive it was to produce a movie, 276 00:16:27,987 --> 00:16:31,381 but I took four guys and each loaning me a hundred dollars 277 00:16:31,425 --> 00:16:34,950 that $400 loan, uh, fed the whole crew. 278 00:16:36,952 --> 00:16:38,562 The first year when I was showing it around 279 00:16:38,606 --> 00:16:40,912 and trying to drum up a show, 280 00:16:40,956 --> 00:16:44,133 I had nine people turn me down and they all said the same thing, 281 00:16:44,177 --> 00:16:48,094 "We'll put your show on if you get somebody else to narrate it." 282 00:16:48,137 --> 00:16:52,315 Didn't want to do it, I just instinctively felt that I could tell a better story. 283 00:16:52,359 --> 00:16:55,623 And I could understand it I was an unproven product, 284 00:16:55,666 --> 00:16:57,407 there was no reason for them to put it on. 285 00:16:59,235 --> 00:17:00,541 First time I showed up at it, 286 00:17:00,584 --> 00:17:02,021 didn't know whether I should narrate, 287 00:17:02,064 --> 00:17:05,067 by the projector or down on the stage. 288 00:17:05,111 --> 00:17:07,635 And it turned out I narrated it up by the projector 289 00:17:07,678 --> 00:17:09,202 and I introduced the show 290 00:17:09,245 --> 00:17:12,422 and then had to run up and start my tape recorder. 291 00:17:12,466 --> 00:17:14,381 I had no idea whether it was going to work or not 292 00:17:14,424 --> 00:17:15,643 because I'd never done it before. 293 00:17:18,124 --> 00:17:21,388 I didn't know my films were any good, I had no idea. 294 00:17:24,826 --> 00:17:28,177 I measured my success by occasional applause, a lot of laughter 295 00:17:28,221 --> 00:17:30,875 on areas and I knew it was the successes that 296 00:17:30,919 --> 00:17:33,356 the sponsors that put the show on, 297 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:34,705 rebooked at the following year. 298 00:17:34,749 --> 00:17:37,969 [audience cheering] 299 00:17:38,013 --> 00:17:39,232 Life was good. 300 00:17:43,192 --> 00:17:45,064 I fell in love with a young lady. 301 00:17:47,066 --> 00:17:48,719 I met her skiing at Mammoth. 302 00:17:50,721 --> 00:17:54,290 It was one of those love at first sight things. 303 00:17:54,334 --> 00:17:56,640 She was tall, thin brunette, 304 00:17:56,684 --> 00:18:00,209 she could ski really well, I skied over there the next day 305 00:18:00,253 --> 00:18:04,518 and on Tuesday night I took her on our first real date... 306 00:18:06,563 --> 00:18:08,696 and everything just sort of fit together. 307 00:18:12,787 --> 00:18:14,484 And after Scott was born, 308 00:18:14,528 --> 00:18:16,530 we had planned a trip to Europe together, 309 00:18:16,573 --> 00:18:21,056 and her back got to hurting so much she couldn't go with me. 310 00:18:23,276 --> 00:18:25,539 It was at her insistence that I went to Europe 311 00:18:25,582 --> 00:18:27,628 for two and a half or three weeks, 312 00:18:27,671 --> 00:18:29,934 and made the first European photography 313 00:18:29,978 --> 00:18:31,153 that I had ever done. 314 00:18:33,721 --> 00:18:36,071 Everything I saw was a brand new experience. 315 00:18:36,115 --> 00:18:38,247 [slow music] 316 00:18:42,425 --> 00:18:45,559 And her mother called and said, "You've got to get home as quick as you can, 317 00:18:45,602 --> 00:18:47,909 this is really important, I'm not going to tell you why, 318 00:18:47,952 --> 00:18:49,302 but I just want you here." 319 00:18:50,868 --> 00:18:54,002 I went back to New York and jumped in my truck and drove, 320 00:18:54,045 --> 00:18:56,439 drove virtually nonstop back to Los Angeles. 321 00:18:59,225 --> 00:19:01,966 I found out the day I got there when I saw the doctor. 322 00:19:03,707 --> 00:19:05,231 He said, "I don't know how to tell you this, 323 00:19:05,274 --> 00:19:08,190 but your wife is going to die within six months. 324 00:19:08,234 --> 00:19:11,324 No doctor in the world can save her life, period. 325 00:19:12,325 --> 00:19:15,371 It's going to end with cancer of the spine." 326 00:19:15,415 --> 00:19:17,895 [piano music] 327 00:19:22,900 --> 00:19:25,468 Her father bought a little tiny tract house... 328 00:19:26,513 --> 00:19:29,124 three small bedrooms, I think all house had a 329 00:19:29,168 --> 00:19:31,213 1,000 square feet in it, 330 00:19:31,257 --> 00:19:33,650 three bedrooms and her sister moved in with us, 331 00:19:33,694 --> 00:19:35,783 and took care of her while I was working 332 00:19:35,826 --> 00:19:38,002 as a ditch digger and carpenter. 333 00:19:39,047 --> 00:19:41,832 Banged a lot of nails for him to know houses, 334 00:19:41,876 --> 00:19:43,747 I built frame houses and then I would... 335 00:19:45,227 --> 00:19:47,360 sleep on the floor under her bed... 336 00:19:48,839 --> 00:19:51,190 I'd edit film until she fell asleep. 337 00:19:52,669 --> 00:19:55,106 We would talk about our next trip here. 338 00:19:56,282 --> 00:19:58,109 The next trip to Europe we'll leave the two of us... 339 00:19:59,589 --> 00:20:00,634 we'll go together... 340 00:20:04,725 --> 00:20:06,161 Never happened. 341 00:20:06,205 --> 00:20:08,685 [piano music] 342 00:20:09,991 --> 00:20:14,996 I, I didn't call her parents at 2:30 in the morning 343 00:20:15,039 --> 00:20:16,737 because there was nothing they could have done. 344 00:20:17,694 --> 00:20:19,435 So I-- who do you call? 345 00:20:21,307 --> 00:20:23,265 I don't know what to do when somebody dies. 346 00:20:28,966 --> 00:20:32,927 They came and drove away with her, and that's the last time I ever saw her. 347 00:20:35,538 --> 00:20:36,626 She was gone. 348 00:20:46,506 --> 00:20:49,248 [piano music] 349 00:20:53,121 --> 00:20:56,429 I had a brand new son, I had a film career 350 00:20:56,472 --> 00:21:00,824 that I was trying to establish, was not easy. 351 00:21:00,868 --> 00:21:02,391 However I could pour... 352 00:21:03,566 --> 00:21:07,178 all of my emotional annexed into the film, 353 00:21:07,222 --> 00:21:08,615 and do a better job with it. 354 00:21:10,443 --> 00:21:12,662 I would take my anger and my happiness 355 00:21:12,706 --> 00:21:14,534 and put it in the movie. 356 00:21:14,577 --> 00:21:15,970 Keep your mind occupied... 357 00:21:17,058 --> 00:21:19,408 because you can't worry if your mind is busy, 358 00:21:19,452 --> 00:21:22,063 you just shouldered your way through it, 359 00:21:22,106 --> 00:21:24,108 and tried to set it aside 360 00:21:24,152 --> 00:21:25,806 when you're setting at an editing bench. 361 00:21:27,590 --> 00:21:30,941 [Andy] He was unwavering, he was unyielding 362 00:21:30,985 --> 00:21:34,205 in his pursuit of what was his life passion. 363 00:21:35,206 --> 00:21:38,862 As Warren was getting his business off the ground, 364 00:21:38,906 --> 00:21:42,997 the last thing he was thinking about was opening the mail 365 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:44,912 and depositing checks into 366 00:21:44,955 --> 00:21:48,263 really doing accounting of any kind 367 00:21:48,307 --> 00:21:50,091 and it was only a natural fit 368 00:21:50,134 --> 00:21:53,660 that he hired his mother part time 369 00:21:53,703 --> 00:21:57,490 and then his sister as well to help run his business. 370 00:21:57,533 --> 00:21:59,448 I think he hoped for the best. 371 00:22:00,797 --> 00:22:02,669 [Warren] I figured out very simply 372 00:22:02,712 --> 00:22:05,193 that the whole world works eight hours a day 373 00:22:05,236 --> 00:22:09,328 and the only way you can get ahead of the whole world is to work nine or more. 374 00:22:11,678 --> 00:22:15,595 Back in the day, Warren did everybody's job. 375 00:22:15,638 --> 00:22:20,121 He was the guy who produced the film, shot the film, 376 00:22:20,164 --> 00:22:24,299 edited the film, found the music, narrated the film. 377 00:22:24,343 --> 00:22:25,996 [Kurt] He was a one man band. 378 00:22:27,433 --> 00:22:29,783 He worked all winter to shoot it, all summer to make it, 379 00:22:29,826 --> 00:22:31,175 and then he went on the road, 380 00:22:31,219 --> 00:22:35,789 and my father traveled 250 days a year. 381 00:22:35,832 --> 00:22:38,705 And the last 90 days that is doing a show 382 00:22:39,749 --> 00:22:42,883 every night to a large audience. 383 00:22:42,926 --> 00:22:45,451 All of the excitement and the anticipation in the room 384 00:22:45,494 --> 00:22:47,714 before it, the Warren Miller films about to go on, 385 00:22:47,757 --> 00:22:49,977 it's just-- it's off the chart. 386 00:22:50,020 --> 00:22:52,501 [announcer] Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends. 387 00:22:52,545 --> 00:22:55,896 -Ladies and gentlemen, Warren Miller! -[audience cheering] 388 00:22:57,550 --> 00:22:59,856 [Chris] He loved being there, 389 00:22:59,900 --> 00:23:02,685 and he would never break live. 390 00:23:02,729 --> 00:23:04,818 [Warren] It doesn't really matter who's jumping off the cliff. 391 00:23:04,861 --> 00:23:07,255 You kind of look at the mountain and wonder 392 00:23:07,298 --> 00:23:08,909 if his IQ matches his waistline, 393 00:23:08,952 --> 00:23:10,737 -which sometimes it does. -[audience laughing] 394 00:23:11,651 --> 00:23:13,609 [Dan] If you think of Springsteen, 395 00:23:13,653 --> 00:23:16,699 if you think of, you know, some of the great rock stars 396 00:23:16,743 --> 00:23:17,700 and of course Warren Miller, 397 00:23:17,744 --> 00:23:20,311 it's not about a polished voice. 398 00:23:20,355 --> 00:23:23,402 It's about character in the voice, 399 00:23:23,445 --> 00:23:26,927 the voice that brings a depth to what they're doing. 400 00:23:26,970 --> 00:23:28,711 It's not about pitch, you know, 401 00:23:28,755 --> 00:23:32,062 it's not about tone, it's about authenticity. 402 00:23:32,106 --> 00:23:33,847 [Warren] This winter we'll find that perfect snow 403 00:23:33,890 --> 00:23:36,066 on that perfect mountain once again. 404 00:23:36,110 --> 00:23:38,286 We'll really get it together, you and I, 405 00:23:38,329 --> 00:23:40,506 will feel those giggly butterflies in our stomach 406 00:23:40,549 --> 00:23:43,944 when we can look back up that hill and say, "Wow," 407 00:23:43,987 --> 00:23:47,469 I hadn't run only cost $843 and 71 cents. 408 00:23:48,514 --> 00:23:51,430 He has kind of a laid back lackadaisical voice, 409 00:23:51,473 --> 00:23:54,128 which is kind of the epitome of what a Ski Bum is, 410 00:23:54,171 --> 00:23:56,478 is a laid back lackadaisical person. 411 00:23:56,522 --> 00:23:57,958 And so I think that his voice 412 00:23:58,001 --> 00:24:00,351 just really captures the essence of skiing. 413 00:24:00,395 --> 00:24:02,179 I was about 12 years old, 414 00:24:02,223 --> 00:24:05,661 he was in Northern Michigan at Cadillac high school, 415 00:24:05,705 --> 00:24:08,098 I sat down in my seat and I felt like 416 00:24:08,142 --> 00:24:10,971 this guy was talking directly to me. 417 00:24:11,014 --> 00:24:12,799 [Warren] Chances are sometime on the way down, 418 00:24:12,842 --> 00:24:14,757 you'll let out a long loud cry. 419 00:24:14,801 --> 00:24:17,194 That's essentially a cry of love and life. 420 00:24:17,238 --> 00:24:18,674 [Mark] Yeah, his voice really made me 421 00:24:18,718 --> 00:24:22,069 feel comfortable and like at home. 422 00:24:22,112 --> 00:24:26,421 It wasn't like Warren Miller the ski movie narrator guy, 423 00:24:26,465 --> 00:24:29,076 he was the narrator for everything. 424 00:24:30,338 --> 00:24:32,906 [Warren] You should do it too, do it now 425 00:24:32,949 --> 00:24:36,475 because if you don't, it'll be one year older when you do. 426 00:24:36,518 --> 00:24:38,520 [Jonny] But then he would pack everything up, get in his car, 427 00:24:38,564 --> 00:24:42,132 he would drive, he gets to sleep at two in the morning, 428 00:24:42,176 --> 00:24:43,917 wake up and do it all over again. 429 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:47,268 In order to sell anything, 430 00:24:47,311 --> 00:24:51,228 you almost have to interact with every person one at a time, 431 00:24:51,272 --> 00:24:53,056 to build something that's new 432 00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:55,058 and Warren did that. [laughs] 433 00:24:55,102 --> 00:24:57,887 He literally crisscross the country. 434 00:24:57,931 --> 00:25:01,151 Not that many people skied, people thought you were crazy 435 00:25:01,195 --> 00:25:04,981 if you went out strapped a couple of boards on your feet and slid down the hill. 436 00:25:05,025 --> 00:25:06,243 [Andy] The skiing industry really 437 00:25:06,287 --> 00:25:09,116 took shape after World War II. 438 00:25:09,159 --> 00:25:11,031 Warren was there to capture 439 00:25:11,074 --> 00:25:14,121 the boom in the '50s and '60s. 440 00:25:14,164 --> 00:25:16,079 Skiing was pretty exclusive back then, 441 00:25:16,123 --> 00:25:17,907 it's pretty exclusive today. 442 00:25:17,951 --> 00:25:21,607 And, uh, you know, I have no doubt that his blue collar 443 00:25:21,650 --> 00:25:23,652 way of going about things 444 00:25:23,696 --> 00:25:27,221 made a lot of folks who grew up in the Midwest 445 00:25:27,264 --> 00:25:30,441 and Michigan like I did think, "Hey, we can do this too." 446 00:25:32,487 --> 00:25:35,751 [Warren] The first time I showed in Pasadena, I gave my introductory speech 447 00:25:35,795 --> 00:25:38,232 and all I did was talking about living in the parking lot 448 00:25:38,275 --> 00:25:40,582 and shooting rabbits, so the audience laughed. 449 00:25:40,626 --> 00:25:43,237 And when it was all over, we had had 450 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,979 almost 800 people paid a buck to see the show. 451 00:25:46,022 --> 00:25:49,373 I got my $320 which was in those days, uh, 452 00:25:49,417 --> 00:25:51,332 four weeks pay as a carpenter. 453 00:25:51,375 --> 00:25:54,683 And, uh, I thought that I'd died and gone to heaven. 454 00:25:56,642 --> 00:25:59,296 [Greg] He was the pied piper of skiing. 455 00:25:59,340 --> 00:26:01,864 Now The Beatles didn't invent Rock and Roll, 456 00:26:01,908 --> 00:26:05,215 but the Beatles certainly took it to this other level 457 00:26:05,259 --> 00:26:08,697 where we were all like, "Wow, this is brand new." 458 00:26:08,741 --> 00:26:11,439 Warren was the Beatles of the ski movies. 459 00:26:16,531 --> 00:26:17,880 [interviewer] Is the podium back there? 460 00:26:17,924 --> 00:26:19,882 The podium is here, so... 461 00:26:20,883 --> 00:26:23,364 this podium back here... 462 00:26:23,407 --> 00:26:27,063 um, used to travel around with Warren, 463 00:26:27,107 --> 00:26:33,635 and he would narrate his film was live, uh, using this podium. 464 00:26:33,679 --> 00:26:37,117 Uh, there used to be a light and a mic that would sit up here. 465 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:38,553 He'd put his script down here 466 00:26:38,597 --> 00:26:40,686 and re-narrate live to the audiences. 467 00:26:40,729 --> 00:26:44,646 So this here is an old, um, reel to reel 468 00:26:44,690 --> 00:26:46,430 that Warren used to take around with him, 469 00:26:46,474 --> 00:26:50,696 and are used to play some of the audio. 470 00:26:50,739 --> 00:26:52,262 I probably open it up... 471 00:26:54,264 --> 00:26:59,966 see, let's see if it has some of the old... 472 00:27:01,141 --> 00:27:04,231 uh, places he used to hold all the old sequences. 473 00:27:06,363 --> 00:27:09,845 [Warren] The longest days I put in were 18, 19 hours. 474 00:27:09,889 --> 00:27:12,500 You got to get a little sleep somewhere, even though it's, uh, 475 00:27:12,543 --> 00:27:14,328 a pillow on the carpet of your office 476 00:27:14,371 --> 00:27:15,503 if you have a carpet. 477 00:27:17,723 --> 00:27:20,508 I didn't know anything else, there's that old saying, 478 00:27:20,551 --> 00:27:24,643 "Nobody never give you nothing, you have to earn it." 479 00:27:27,515 --> 00:27:29,735 [Chris] About a year after Jean passed away, 480 00:27:29,778 --> 00:27:31,650 my father met my mother. 481 00:27:34,435 --> 00:27:36,785 If I was to describe my mother, Dotty, 482 00:27:36,829 --> 00:27:39,875 she, first of all, is beautiful. 483 00:27:41,572 --> 00:27:48,623 Poised, consummate, hostess, my mom loved to ski. 484 00:27:48,667 --> 00:27:52,018 They met at Santanophany when he asked her 485 00:27:52,061 --> 00:27:55,282 to be on a Tandem surf contest with them. 486 00:27:55,325 --> 00:27:56,849 So she was an adventurer too. 487 00:28:00,330 --> 00:28:04,378 They found each other out there not in the city. 488 00:28:04,421 --> 00:28:07,207 [Warren] And all told there was over a hundred photographers there, 489 00:28:07,250 --> 00:28:09,644 one a little partial to is my wife Dotty. 490 00:28:09,688 --> 00:28:11,428 She runs a Bell and Howell camera for me, 491 00:28:11,472 --> 00:28:13,082 helps film these races, 492 00:28:13,126 --> 00:28:15,084 one reason we put this shot of her in, 493 00:28:15,128 --> 00:28:18,218 just to help substantiate our income tax deduction. 494 00:28:18,261 --> 00:28:21,003 [dramatic music] 495 00:28:24,703 --> 00:28:29,229 [Chris] When we were young, we traveled in our station wagon full of camera gear, 496 00:28:29,272 --> 00:28:34,060 all over the United States and it was a family adventure. 497 00:28:34,103 --> 00:28:35,409 [Warren] While we're on the subject of children 498 00:28:35,452 --> 00:28:36,758 I'd like to take a couple of minutes out 499 00:28:36,802 --> 00:28:38,107 and introduce you to my three. 500 00:28:38,151 --> 00:28:40,153 We have a young son named Kirk. 501 00:28:40,196 --> 00:28:42,155 He's two, doesn't ski yet. 502 00:28:42,198 --> 00:28:44,026 Our daughter Chrissy is five. 503 00:28:44,070 --> 00:28:47,464 She'd rather throw rocks, snowballs and ski. 504 00:28:47,508 --> 00:28:50,206 Our son, Scott is nine going on 17. 505 00:28:50,250 --> 00:28:52,252 And he's a junior lifeguard in the summer, 506 00:28:52,295 --> 00:28:54,950 and he used to just ski quite a bit in the winter with us. 507 00:28:54,994 --> 00:28:59,041 [Chris] I remember one time we were like antsy little kids, 508 00:28:59,085 --> 00:29:00,390 my dad said, he goes, 509 00:29:00,434 --> 00:29:02,828 "If you don't pipe down back there 510 00:29:02,871 --> 00:29:05,613 I'm stopping the car and letting you out." 511 00:29:05,656 --> 00:29:08,703 And we're like "What, yeah, whatever you're going to do this." 512 00:29:08,747 --> 00:29:12,272 And... sure enough he pulled off the side of the road, 513 00:29:12,315 --> 00:29:15,014 bright daylight and he, "Everybody out." 514 00:29:15,057 --> 00:29:17,233 And he drove off with my mom... 515 00:29:18,321 --> 00:29:19,845 and I looked at my older brother and he goes, 516 00:29:19,888 --> 00:29:21,803 "I think we have to start walking." 517 00:29:21,847 --> 00:29:24,066 And we got to the end of the curve in the road 518 00:29:24,110 --> 00:29:28,810 and my mom and dad were sitting there having lunch, laughing, 519 00:29:28,854 --> 00:29:31,639 and they go, "Whoa, I told you so." 520 00:29:31,682 --> 00:29:33,467 They've had their eyes on us the whole time... 521 00:29:35,686 --> 00:29:38,602 and they taught us a lesson like, you're either on our team or you don't get to play. 522 00:29:40,169 --> 00:29:42,432 [Warren] Last year we logged 20,000 miles 523 00:29:42,476 --> 00:29:44,173 traveling around the Western United States 524 00:29:44,217 --> 00:29:46,828 in search of powder snow and sunshine. 525 00:29:46,872 --> 00:29:49,309 For example, we took a long weekend in May, 526 00:29:49,352 --> 00:29:54,096 left Los Angeles drove 1500 miles North to Timberline Lodge. 527 00:29:55,141 --> 00:29:58,274 [Chris] It was like, don't stay home, take your kids, 528 00:29:58,318 --> 00:30:00,668 put them in the cars and go see the world. 529 00:30:02,713 --> 00:30:06,500 That was his motto, we got to participate in that. 530 00:30:06,543 --> 00:30:09,111 And that's why we were in the movies in those years. 531 00:30:13,115 --> 00:30:15,248 I really think our family, 532 00:30:15,291 --> 00:30:19,034 we were kind of the guinea pigs of this idea. 533 00:30:19,078 --> 00:30:22,342 [slow music] 534 00:30:24,170 --> 00:30:28,609 What else would you want to do in your childhood, really? 535 00:30:28,652 --> 00:30:32,178 I mean, I had this amazing, amazing childhood. 536 00:30:34,833 --> 00:30:37,052 [slow music] 537 00:30:38,401 --> 00:30:41,013 [Greg] Warren developed a format that worked 538 00:30:41,056 --> 00:30:44,407 and, you know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right? 539 00:30:44,451 --> 00:30:47,062 You know, so he stuck with what was working and what he knew, 540 00:30:47,106 --> 00:30:49,325 what he was comfortable with, and what he was great at. 541 00:30:50,587 --> 00:30:53,590 [Kurt] Like anything we can relate to a recipe. 542 00:30:53,634 --> 00:30:55,810 And my dad in the early years 543 00:30:55,854 --> 00:30:58,508 had a recipe of what should be in the film. 544 00:30:58,552 --> 00:31:01,294 [Warren] You have to have humor, you have to have adventure, 545 00:31:01,337 --> 00:31:02,861 you have to go to resorts 546 00:31:02,904 --> 00:31:06,168 that you have never gone to before with your camera. 547 00:31:06,212 --> 00:31:08,344 Here's a place you've never been before, 548 00:31:08,388 --> 00:31:10,912 here's a place you can ski all day every day, 549 00:31:10,956 --> 00:31:13,567 and why don't you? What's keeping you in the city? 550 00:31:15,525 --> 00:31:17,397 [rock music] 551 00:31:22,750 --> 00:31:27,363 You know, they were all excited and he would, you know, blast them with this opening montage, 552 00:31:27,407 --> 00:31:29,322 and would, you know, throw everybody up in the field. 553 00:31:29,365 --> 00:31:31,324 [rock music] 554 00:31:34,370 --> 00:31:36,590 I was like, "Hey, great, I need my fix, give me this stuff." 555 00:31:36,633 --> 00:31:39,027 He would take all the extreme skiing, 556 00:31:39,071 --> 00:31:41,421 all of the action that's going to be in the film 557 00:31:41,464 --> 00:31:43,379 and put it in the first three minutes. 558 00:31:43,423 --> 00:31:44,859 So you're seeing a highlight reel. 559 00:31:44,903 --> 00:31:47,296 [rock music] 560 00:31:50,909 --> 00:31:53,737 ♪ Skiing is the living 561 00:31:53,781 --> 00:31:56,958 ♪ Living in the you 562 00:31:57,002 --> 00:31:59,221 ♪ Skiing in the living 563 00:31:59,265 --> 00:32:03,051 ♪ In above walking through 564 00:32:03,095 --> 00:32:05,445 ♪ Skiing in the living 565 00:32:05,488 --> 00:32:08,100 ♪ In the power 566 00:32:08,143 --> 00:32:10,319 ♪ In you 567 00:32:13,453 --> 00:32:15,107 The cool thing about Warren's film is, 568 00:32:15,150 --> 00:32:16,586 he always brought humor into it. 569 00:32:16,630 --> 00:32:19,589 [slow music] 570 00:32:19,633 --> 00:32:21,722 [Warren] This guy worked at a satellite tracking station 571 00:32:21,765 --> 00:32:23,376 and his clothes got magnetized. 572 00:32:25,204 --> 00:32:28,163 [John] Somehow his cameraman found 573 00:32:28,207 --> 00:32:30,035 people wearing the craziest outfits... 574 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,561 doing the silliest things on rope toes. 575 00:32:35,649 --> 00:32:38,217 [Warren] Yup, a lot of strange things happened in August. 576 00:32:39,783 --> 00:32:41,307 These are very serious racers. 577 00:32:43,962 --> 00:32:46,225 This one had his ear on crooked. 578 00:32:46,268 --> 00:32:48,879 There's just always these classic lines, 579 00:32:48,923 --> 00:32:53,710 him showing beginners really struggling to get off the lift, 580 00:32:53,754 --> 00:32:56,061 and the lift attendants being so frustrated. 581 00:32:56,104 --> 00:33:00,804 And there's Warren saying, "Yeah, you want your ski? Go get it." 582 00:33:00,848 --> 00:33:02,589 [Warren] You want your ski, go get it, 583 00:33:02,632 --> 00:33:05,200 you want your skis, go get it. 584 00:33:05,244 --> 00:33:06,332 The other one too. 585 00:33:07,637 --> 00:33:08,899 "You want your skis?" 586 00:33:08,943 --> 00:33:10,945 [Warren] Go get it. 587 00:33:10,989 --> 00:33:12,207 Here's a kick in the butt. 588 00:33:16,864 --> 00:33:18,518 [skis crackling] 589 00:33:18,561 --> 00:33:21,869 Humor is man's inhumanity to man. 590 00:33:21,912 --> 00:33:24,915 And I was pretty inhuman on those charlotte sequences. 591 00:33:26,178 --> 00:33:27,918 [Warren] Now watch the guy on the left, 592 00:33:27,962 --> 00:33:29,964 better yet watch his friends. 593 00:33:30,008 --> 00:33:32,358 They're all members of AA with a weekend off. 594 00:33:32,401 --> 00:33:35,013 [symphony music] 595 00:33:37,145 --> 00:33:38,538 Let's see, right, left. 596 00:33:40,018 --> 00:33:42,107 "It's okay, he's my friend." 597 00:33:42,150 --> 00:33:43,717 [Kristen] I don't think that we would let most people 598 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,024 get away with some of the things that he says but, 599 00:33:46,067 --> 00:33:48,852 the way he, he says things... 600 00:33:48,896 --> 00:33:50,724 There's two theories about arguing with women. 601 00:33:50,767 --> 00:33:52,334 Neither one of them works. 602 00:33:52,378 --> 00:33:53,640 [instructor] Can we say that? 603 00:33:53,683 --> 00:33:54,989 I don't know why not, I just said it. 604 00:33:56,556 --> 00:33:58,036 [Warren] On this trip, I hired an Italian midget 605 00:33:58,079 --> 00:34:00,647 and drove while I slept all the way out to California. 606 00:34:02,127 --> 00:34:07,088 Yep, this whole thing's for real, a real bummer. 607 00:34:08,133 --> 00:34:09,830 [Kristen] Even if they're super inappropriate, 608 00:34:09,873 --> 00:34:11,875 like, you don't really take offense to it somehow, 609 00:34:11,919 --> 00:34:13,138 I don't know why. 610 00:34:15,314 --> 00:34:16,924 [Warren] Skiers are a unique group of people. 611 00:34:18,273 --> 00:34:19,970 They'll buy packers that are four inches thick 612 00:34:20,014 --> 00:34:22,364 and pants that are one six of an inch thick. 613 00:34:22,408 --> 00:34:25,150 And these are two of Australia's top bottom watchers. 614 00:34:27,152 --> 00:34:28,631 [Kurt] The formula true, 615 00:34:28,675 --> 00:34:31,069 is we can entertain them for 80% of the time... 616 00:34:31,982 --> 00:34:34,637 you've done great. I mean, at the end he would say... 617 00:34:34,681 --> 00:34:37,858 [Warren] Warren Miller here, hope to see you next year same time, 618 00:34:37,901 --> 00:34:40,339 same place, same time, same place. 619 00:34:40,382 --> 00:34:44,473 Warren Miller here, hope to see you next year same time, same place. 620 00:34:44,517 --> 00:34:46,388 Thank you and good night. 621 00:34:46,432 --> 00:34:48,303 [Kurt] So, you know, you have a balance and recipe, 622 00:34:48,347 --> 00:34:50,740 you start out with the recipe and if you're a good chef, 623 00:34:50,784 --> 00:34:51,654 you mix it up a little bit. 624 00:34:51,698 --> 00:34:54,527 [symphony music] 625 00:35:00,446 --> 00:35:03,797 [Warren] I had a young man from San Francisco who was 626 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,452 hundred percent blind, he couldn't see a thing. 627 00:35:06,495 --> 00:35:09,890 When he was scanned to giant humongous moguls, 628 00:35:09,933 --> 00:35:13,023 and I just couldn't imagine how he could do that. 629 00:35:13,937 --> 00:35:16,462 And I featured him in that first film. 630 00:35:16,505 --> 00:35:18,855 I waited till I just showed two or three shots 631 00:35:18,899 --> 00:35:20,640 of what a good skiing was, 632 00:35:20,683 --> 00:35:23,730 and it was sort of, "Oh, by the way, he was totally blind." 633 00:35:25,558 --> 00:35:28,517 You're skiing along POV of the camera 634 00:35:28,561 --> 00:35:30,476 and the screen goes black. 635 00:35:30,519 --> 00:35:33,261 [skis screeching] 636 00:35:40,790 --> 00:35:42,401 You have 3000 people sitting in a room 637 00:35:42,444 --> 00:35:45,055 and it's just, and it's just the sound of the snow. 638 00:35:46,361 --> 00:35:49,147 [snow chattering] 639 00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:55,979 It's an amazing thing that, you know-- 640 00:35:56,023 --> 00:35:57,416 and that kind of put people on like, 641 00:35:57,459 --> 00:36:00,288 "God, how lucky we are to have what we do, 642 00:36:00,332 --> 00:36:02,334 and care for what we have." 643 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,773 [Warren] There'd be a long silence in the audience, 644 00:36:06,816 --> 00:36:08,992 which is a programmed response. 645 00:36:09,036 --> 00:36:11,038 They had to relate to that blind guy. 646 00:36:12,387 --> 00:36:16,043 [Andy] There's no question that he always liked the underdog. 647 00:36:16,086 --> 00:36:20,221 He always saw himself relating to the little guy. 648 00:36:20,265 --> 00:36:22,267 This is a guy who started out 649 00:36:22,310 --> 00:36:25,487 in a trailer in the parking lot, and, you know, 650 00:36:25,531 --> 00:36:27,402 look what you can do if he did it. 651 00:36:27,446 --> 00:36:31,058 [Warren] Single most important thing is for a handicap skier, 652 00:36:31,101 --> 00:36:32,581 regardless of his handicap, 653 00:36:32,625 --> 00:36:35,193 is that he has the same opportunity 654 00:36:35,236 --> 00:36:38,370 to stand at the top of the hill and make turns to the bottom. 655 00:36:40,285 --> 00:36:42,200 And the audience reaction was so good 656 00:36:42,243 --> 00:36:46,421 that I had a handicap person almost every film I ever did. 657 00:36:46,465 --> 00:36:49,207 [symphony music] 658 00:36:51,774 --> 00:36:55,256 [Warren] The real star of the day though, was a young lady named Tracy Taylor. 659 00:36:55,300 --> 00:36:57,824 Tracey was born with sacral agenesis. 660 00:36:57,867 --> 00:37:00,827 Her legs, they are about as big around as my thumb, 661 00:37:00,870 --> 00:37:03,264 but her spirit just big as all outdoors. 662 00:37:04,918 --> 00:37:07,877 When I found out she weighed less than my camera gear, I had an idea. 663 00:37:08,835 --> 00:37:11,533 [Tracy] Mr. Miller skied down with me in his arms, 664 00:37:11,577 --> 00:37:15,015 holding me like a camera, I felt disbelief. 665 00:37:16,190 --> 00:37:19,062 [Warren] And with that one run, I fell in love with this little girl. 666 00:37:20,412 --> 00:37:23,153 So now I've got Tracy on my arms and I'm holding her 667 00:37:23,197 --> 00:37:25,504 and as we go through the gates she's smacking them with her arm. 668 00:37:25,547 --> 00:37:27,897 [audience laughing] 669 00:37:27,941 --> 00:37:30,204 She's 11 years old. 670 00:37:30,248 --> 00:37:35,818 I took her back to her mother, and I called her home about a week later. 671 00:37:37,124 --> 00:37:39,648 And I said, "Mrs. Taylor, I've made arrangements to take you 672 00:37:39,692 --> 00:37:42,521 and your two sons and your daughter to winter park, 673 00:37:42,564 --> 00:37:45,437 so she can learn how to ski with Hal O'Leary." 674 00:37:46,481 --> 00:37:49,745 [piano music] 675 00:37:49,789 --> 00:37:51,443 Mind you this little girl had no knees, 676 00:37:51,486 --> 00:37:54,489 just stiff le-- stiff legs, size of your thumb. 677 00:37:54,533 --> 00:37:57,797 He taught her how to move her hips over the outside ski 678 00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:58,885 and actually turned. 679 00:38:00,190 --> 00:38:03,063 And here she's turning freedom, right? 680 00:38:05,631 --> 00:38:08,982 And I had a great camera crew covering it for me, 681 00:38:09,025 --> 00:38:11,289 great sound man and a great editor. 682 00:38:11,332 --> 00:38:13,116 And when the guy was editing it... 683 00:38:15,336 --> 00:38:18,948 there's a great picture of Tracy and she's kind of ogling through the snow on her tummy, 684 00:38:18,992 --> 00:38:21,560 pulling herself through the snow and the elbows 685 00:38:21,603 --> 00:38:23,910 and the narration we put over Tracy said... 686 00:38:25,912 --> 00:38:27,348 "God made me this way... 687 00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:31,221 so that when anybody sees me doing anything... 688 00:38:32,353 --> 00:38:35,878 they know that they can do anything they want to do with their life." 689 00:38:35,922 --> 00:38:38,185 [slow music] 690 00:38:42,363 --> 00:38:45,627 [Dan] It's not a ski movie that Warren has made, 691 00:38:45,671 --> 00:38:49,457 it's inspirational moment, it's a family time, 692 00:38:49,501 --> 00:38:55,289 it's a time that inspires, it's a time that questions, 693 00:38:55,333 --> 00:38:59,989 it's a time that makes you think about your own life 694 00:39:00,033 --> 00:39:03,036 and where you are in the world and what are you doing with it. 695 00:39:05,995 --> 00:39:07,649 [Warren] One day, I was in Vermont, 696 00:39:07,693 --> 00:39:10,348 just leaving for two or three weeks 697 00:39:10,391 --> 00:39:12,915 went through the, uh, through the lecture tour. 698 00:39:12,959 --> 00:39:16,658 I talked to my wife and she had a $25 check bounce. 699 00:39:20,140 --> 00:39:23,752 In the bank account, I should have had $150,000. 700 00:39:24,623 --> 00:39:26,712 I had to stay on the road for three weeks 701 00:39:26,755 --> 00:39:28,453 before I could even investigate 702 00:39:28,496 --> 00:39:31,064 where the money had disappeared to. 703 00:39:31,107 --> 00:39:34,110 [plane engine whooshing] 704 00:39:34,154 --> 00:39:37,549 Disappeared in my sister and my mother's from bank accounts. 705 00:39:37,592 --> 00:39:40,378 [dramatic music] 706 00:39:41,248 --> 00:39:43,990 And further they needed the money more than I did. 707 00:39:46,862 --> 00:39:49,691 [Chris] They managed to take that hundred thousand dollars from him, 708 00:39:49,735 --> 00:39:51,519 which was just about everything we had. 709 00:39:51,563 --> 00:39:53,434 They eventually tracked it down and 710 00:39:53,478 --> 00:39:54,914 discovered they had swindled them. 711 00:39:54,957 --> 00:39:56,568 And it was just for stupid stuff 712 00:39:56,611 --> 00:39:58,744 like clothing and just, 713 00:39:58,787 --> 00:40:03,009 I don't know why, I mean, [stutters] never mix family and money. 714 00:40:04,750 --> 00:40:07,883 [Warren] Really pulled the rug out of any security I had. 715 00:40:08,754 --> 00:40:11,626 [piano music] 716 00:40:11,670 --> 00:40:15,587 And finding your mother with all the missing money, 717 00:40:15,630 --> 00:40:16,849 how far do you take it? 718 00:40:18,285 --> 00:40:20,069 One day they came to work, and the door was locked, 719 00:40:20,113 --> 00:40:21,419 and I wouldn't let them in. 720 00:40:23,029 --> 00:40:26,119 The bottom line is that there was never any 721 00:40:26,162 --> 00:40:31,341 police action taken against either his mother or his sister. 722 00:40:31,385 --> 00:40:34,257 I never understood exactly how that could happen 723 00:40:34,301 --> 00:40:37,260 when they had clearly taken the money. 724 00:40:39,611 --> 00:40:41,221 [Warren] You're not going to change them, 725 00:40:41,264 --> 00:40:42,527 so you just get on with your life, 726 00:40:42,570 --> 00:40:45,268 and hope you can pay the bills. 727 00:40:47,053 --> 00:40:48,837 I never saw either one of them again. 728 00:40:55,540 --> 00:40:58,151 [native music] 729 00:41:12,861 --> 00:41:16,604 [Dan] For me he's a guy that's lived without a net. 730 00:41:16,648 --> 00:41:19,389 That he's walked the high wire, uh, 731 00:41:19,433 --> 00:41:21,304 and he may have fallen off a few times, 732 00:41:21,348 --> 00:41:24,351 but he's gotten back up and kept going, and I love that. 733 00:41:24,394 --> 00:41:26,135 And I love that he shares that. 734 00:41:26,179 --> 00:41:28,137 He's a guy that just can't keep it in. 735 00:41:30,270 --> 00:41:31,663 [Jonny] Warren found something he loved 736 00:41:31,706 --> 00:41:34,840 and he built his own industry around it 737 00:41:34,883 --> 00:41:36,842 and at the same time, you know, 738 00:41:36,885 --> 00:41:40,454 inspired tons of other people to get into it. 739 00:41:41,411 --> 00:41:44,676 The real explosion of, of skiing in America 740 00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:46,373 was the late '60s. 741 00:41:46,416 --> 00:41:48,636 [Chris] The ski resort would decide to be built there, 742 00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:51,465 and then my father would be called, come make a film, 743 00:41:51,509 --> 00:41:53,119 we want people to know we're here, 744 00:41:53,162 --> 00:41:55,425 give us the first man on-- at Snowbird, 745 00:41:55,469 --> 00:41:57,863 it was the first man in Vale. 746 00:41:57,906 --> 00:41:59,734 [Jonny] It's a chicken and egg thing, right? 747 00:41:59,778 --> 00:42:01,431 I don't know which is first explosion of 748 00:42:01,475 --> 00:42:03,564 skier is being built or was it 749 00:42:03,608 --> 00:42:05,914 Warren Miller's movies that pushed? 750 00:42:05,958 --> 00:42:09,178 I don't know, I know they both happened. 751 00:42:09,222 --> 00:42:13,879 I will absolutely credit Warren Miller with 99.9% 752 00:42:13,922 --> 00:42:16,882 of the growth of [chuckles], of skiing in that era. 753 00:42:18,057 --> 00:42:19,928 [Andy] He was able to influence everybody. 754 00:42:19,972 --> 00:42:21,713 And at the end of the day, you know, 755 00:42:21,756 --> 00:42:24,933 it's the participant that you've really got to influence, 756 00:42:24,977 --> 00:42:27,153 and Warren got that. 757 00:42:27,196 --> 00:42:29,068 [Greg] Suddenly the general public 758 00:42:29,111 --> 00:42:32,724 could be exposed to this wonderful thing, 759 00:42:32,767 --> 00:42:38,120 how to snow in sunshine and, and, you know, sensuality and friendship, 760 00:42:38,164 --> 00:42:40,732 and a thing that you could do with your family. 761 00:42:40,775 --> 00:42:42,429 [Warren] For example 40 years ago, 762 00:42:42,472 --> 00:42:44,387 they started plowing the snow off of a dirt road 763 00:42:44,431 --> 00:42:46,128 that led to Mt. Bachelor. 764 00:42:46,172 --> 00:42:49,479 Today they have six detachable high-speed lifts. 765 00:42:49,523 --> 00:42:52,047 It went beyond skiing and the technical aspects. 766 00:42:52,091 --> 00:42:55,355 Warren did a story on snow making, when it first came out. 767 00:42:55,398 --> 00:42:58,053 [Warren] The snow they're skiing on is artificially made. 768 00:42:58,097 --> 00:43:00,403 When the temperature is below 30 degrees, 769 00:43:00,447 --> 00:43:04,538 the spray crystallizes and falls on the ground in the form of snowflakes. 770 00:43:04,582 --> 00:43:08,150 And it costs about $20 to cover one acre with one inch. 771 00:43:08,194 --> 00:43:12,024 And once Warren featured a story on snow making, 772 00:43:12,067 --> 00:43:13,634 the other ski area operators, 773 00:43:13,678 --> 00:43:14,853 they were obligated to figure out 774 00:43:14,896 --> 00:43:16,332 what the heck is snow making? 775 00:43:16,376 --> 00:43:18,552 We better get it because they've got it 776 00:43:18,596 --> 00:43:20,902 and they heard about it in the Warren Miller movie. 777 00:43:20,946 --> 00:43:24,340 He toured with his films to high school auditoriums, 778 00:43:24,384 --> 00:43:27,692 to theaters, basically anywhere anybody would sit and listen 779 00:43:27,735 --> 00:43:30,085 and watch and he did it with passion. 780 00:43:31,609 --> 00:43:34,002 [Warren] One thing grew up on the other and pretty soon 781 00:43:34,046 --> 00:43:37,223 I got, so I was doing a hundred different shows a winter. 782 00:43:37,266 --> 00:43:40,487 [Jonny] In January, he starts in Santa Barbara, 783 00:43:40,530 --> 00:43:42,576 and ends up in Waterville Maine. 784 00:43:42,620 --> 00:43:44,622 How did he even get from there to there? 785 00:43:46,449 --> 00:43:48,538 This is how you sell something, 786 00:43:48,582 --> 00:43:50,802 that right there is incredible. 787 00:43:52,542 --> 00:43:54,240 [Warren] That's how the whole thing grew. 788 00:43:57,199 --> 00:44:00,289 One person told another and the show worked for the people 789 00:44:00,333 --> 00:44:02,988 who came the first time and they came back the second, 790 00:44:03,031 --> 00:44:05,686 third and 45th time. 791 00:44:05,730 --> 00:44:08,297 [band music] 792 00:44:15,609 --> 00:44:18,177 [Warren] When I fire out, why don't you folks relax a bit 793 00:44:18,220 --> 00:44:19,395 and I'll change the reels. 794 00:44:23,356 --> 00:44:24,879 [timer beeping] 795 00:44:24,923 --> 00:44:27,360 [slow music] 796 00:44:44,899 --> 00:44:47,989 [Kurt] Endless Summer is one of the most successful documentaries ever. 797 00:44:48,033 --> 00:44:49,382 I don't know where it is on the box off return, 798 00:44:49,425 --> 00:44:50,731 but I still tune into it. 799 00:44:50,775 --> 00:44:53,081 It'll be Sunday on some channel somewhere. 800 00:44:54,909 --> 00:44:57,477 [Warren] A lot of people came to me after Endless Summer 801 00:44:58,434 --> 00:45:01,742 noticed a similarity between Bruce Brian and me. 802 00:45:01,786 --> 00:45:03,918 I can't sit here and say I influenced him at all, 803 00:45:03,962 --> 00:45:05,746 because I don't know whether I did. 804 00:45:05,790 --> 00:45:08,793 All I liked his film, he was very successful with it. 805 00:45:08,836 --> 00:45:12,100 The people that saw his film had never seen 806 00:45:12,144 --> 00:45:13,754 a surfboard written before. 807 00:45:13,798 --> 00:45:16,757 [slow music] 808 00:45:16,801 --> 00:45:18,541 [Kurt] I think it's how you define success. 809 00:45:18,585 --> 00:45:20,587 You know, and I think today when we look at the box office, 810 00:45:20,630 --> 00:45:23,111 people define success as money. 811 00:45:23,155 --> 00:45:24,809 [Andy] He did look at Bruce Brown 812 00:45:24,852 --> 00:45:27,159 and he looked at Endless Summer and he thought, "Wow! 813 00:45:27,202 --> 00:45:32,033 I wonder if I could go beyond my tour 814 00:45:32,077 --> 00:45:35,210 to expand this to a, you know, 815 00:45:35,254 --> 00:45:38,344 Hollywood type theatrical release." 816 00:45:38,387 --> 00:45:42,304 His hope was that he was going to prove to the world that 817 00:45:42,348 --> 00:45:46,265 he was a big Hollywood movie producer. 818 00:45:46,308 --> 00:45:48,223 [slow music] 819 00:45:52,445 --> 00:45:54,360 He recast the film a bit. 820 00:45:54,403 --> 00:45:57,624 He added a segment with Jean Claude Killy, 821 00:45:57,667 --> 00:46:00,105 and of course the film debuted 822 00:46:00,148 --> 00:46:02,760 in New York city, it was in July. 823 00:46:02,803 --> 00:46:07,112 It was a heat wave and it absolutely bombed. 824 00:46:08,940 --> 00:46:10,985 Nobody came, nobody came to the theater, 825 00:46:11,029 --> 00:46:13,205 it was panned and it was a disaster. 826 00:46:15,337 --> 00:46:18,427 [Kurt] And no Warren Miller film was financially successful 827 00:46:18,471 --> 00:46:19,472 as Endless Summer. 828 00:46:21,343 --> 00:46:23,476 You know that they're not doing anything much different than you are, 829 00:46:23,519 --> 00:46:26,261 but they get that huge success, it's got to hurt. 830 00:46:31,310 --> 00:46:36,358 [Andy] Warren had agreed not to show his annual ski film 831 00:46:36,402 --> 00:46:38,230 during the period that this was going to go 832 00:46:38,273 --> 00:46:41,581 into theatrical release. So he was in a hole. 833 00:46:41,624 --> 00:46:46,760 It was a, it was a horrible risky move and, uh, 834 00:46:46,804 --> 00:46:48,457 and it didn't work out for Warren. 835 00:46:48,501 --> 00:46:52,244 So he had some downtime and lo and behold, 836 00:46:52,287 --> 00:46:57,902 he had an offer to do a 13 show series 837 00:46:57,945 --> 00:47:01,601 on network TV about triple gold Olympic medalist, 838 00:47:01,644 --> 00:47:02,950 Jean Claude Killy. 839 00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:06,475 [Warren] I know it's a question that I will get asked early. 840 00:47:06,519 --> 00:47:09,348 And that is who is the best skier we ever filmed? 841 00:47:09,391 --> 00:47:11,219 His good name is Jean Claude Killy. 842 00:47:12,394 --> 00:47:17,095 In 1968, he won 17 World Cup races, 843 00:47:17,138 --> 00:47:19,880 including three Olympic gold medals. 844 00:47:19,924 --> 00:47:22,056 That's a feat that has never been duplicated 845 00:47:22,100 --> 00:47:23,753 when he was all through with that, 846 00:47:23,797 --> 00:47:25,799 I got to spend the next six months with him 847 00:47:25,843 --> 00:47:27,148 filming him all over the world. 848 00:47:27,192 --> 00:47:30,325 [dramatic music] 849 00:47:39,291 --> 00:47:42,163 But when we first went to New Zealand, 850 00:47:42,207 --> 00:47:44,426 we got to a place called Mount Cook. 851 00:47:46,733 --> 00:47:48,866 We had a helicopter arranged, 852 00:47:48,909 --> 00:47:51,912 and the pilot was the best helicopter pilot I've ever flown with. 853 00:47:53,305 --> 00:47:54,959 Now I flew up with Killy, 854 00:47:55,002 --> 00:47:59,311 then he went back and got Leo Lacroix and Don 855 00:47:59,354 --> 00:48:01,922 and we started filming and we filmed really hard, 856 00:48:01,966 --> 00:48:03,402 harder than we'd ever done in our life. 857 00:48:04,882 --> 00:48:07,319 [slow music] 858 00:48:07,362 --> 00:48:09,669 And we were getting all set up for a shot, 859 00:48:09,712 --> 00:48:12,106 and it got very dark suddenly. 860 00:48:12,150 --> 00:48:13,455 And Mel, the pilot said, 861 00:48:13,499 --> 00:48:14,848 "Warren, we got to get out of here 862 00:48:14,892 --> 00:48:17,416 because down here in the winter, 863 00:48:17,459 --> 00:48:21,594 in August the sun goes down, it's pitch dark in 30 minutes." 864 00:48:21,637 --> 00:48:23,378 And I said, "Okay, let's go." And he said, "Well... 865 00:48:24,727 --> 00:48:28,862 we're 12 miles from the hotel, there's four of you guys and me, 866 00:48:28,906 --> 00:48:30,646 and if I take two of you back to the hotel 867 00:48:30,690 --> 00:48:32,648 by the time I get back, it'll be dark, 868 00:48:32,692 --> 00:48:34,868 we won't be able to find you and you'll be dead in the morning." 869 00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,002 And I said, "What do we do?" And he said, "It's pretty simple. 870 00:48:38,045 --> 00:48:40,395 Two of you can ride inside, two outside." 871 00:48:40,439 --> 00:48:42,832 [audience laughing] 872 00:48:42,876 --> 00:48:46,140 So what we did we put the skis on the skids turned them upside down, 873 00:48:46,184 --> 00:48:49,361 and tied them on really tight, both sides. 874 00:48:49,404 --> 00:48:50,884 And then we gave Killy and Lacroix 875 00:48:50,928 --> 00:48:53,887 their choice of ride face up or face down. 876 00:48:53,931 --> 00:48:57,412 [audience laughing] 877 00:48:57,456 --> 00:48:59,371 We tied Killy and Lacroix and the outside-- 878 00:48:59,414 --> 00:49:01,939 Now this is a guy who won three gold medals in the Olympics. 879 00:49:01,982 --> 00:49:04,332 [audience laughing] 880 00:49:04,376 --> 00:49:06,595 Now I'm lashing him there like a dead deer. 881 00:49:06,639 --> 00:49:09,816 [audience laughing] 882 00:49:09,859 --> 00:49:12,775 And so Mel did whatever you do to get a helicopter off the ground. 883 00:49:12,819 --> 00:49:14,864 He got it up about a foot. 884 00:49:14,908 --> 00:49:17,389 And then pretty soon he's getting it up about two feet. 885 00:49:17,432 --> 00:49:20,087 Then I noticed that he was kind of 886 00:49:20,131 --> 00:49:21,915 doing little leapfrogs over this way. 887 00:49:21,959 --> 00:49:23,873 And I said, "Mel, why are you going over there?" 888 00:49:23,917 --> 00:49:25,266 "Just look over there. There's a great cliff 889 00:49:25,310 --> 00:49:27,355 we're going to fall off and get air speed." 890 00:49:27,399 --> 00:49:29,227 [audience laughing] 891 00:49:29,270 --> 00:49:31,446 We climbed in the helicopter and then 892 00:49:31,490 --> 00:49:34,101 he hit he hopped along until he got by the edge of the cliff, 893 00:49:34,145 --> 00:49:38,671 and then he just fell off, and took us with him and we got a free ride home. 894 00:49:41,326 --> 00:49:44,068 We made 13 television shows, which fortunately 895 00:49:44,111 --> 00:49:46,287 nobody got to look at because they were broadcast 896 00:49:46,331 --> 00:49:50,030 at the wrong time, up against an NFL Sunday afternoon game. 897 00:49:52,990 --> 00:49:56,036 [Kurt] My dad had never done a TV series to understand 898 00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:57,820 how difficult that is. 899 00:49:57,864 --> 00:50:00,127 You're coordinating the next location where you're going, 900 00:50:00,171 --> 00:50:02,434 the number of people it takes, the cameraman, the gear, 901 00:50:02,477 --> 00:50:05,350 and when you're out there things happen, you know? 902 00:50:05,393 --> 00:50:08,092 It's "Hey, we need to stay an extra day." Okay, that costs another day. 903 00:50:08,135 --> 00:50:10,181 You're not on schedule, it costs more money. 904 00:50:10,224 --> 00:50:13,401 My dad overspend on his budget and lost a lot of money. 905 00:50:15,664 --> 00:50:18,015 [Warren] You got to pay the lab bills on a daily basis, 906 00:50:18,058 --> 00:50:21,496 you got to pay your staff on a daily basis, 907 00:50:21,540 --> 00:50:24,064 and I was borrowing money at the bank to pay them. 908 00:50:25,544 --> 00:50:27,720 I finished filming each segment 909 00:50:28,677 --> 00:50:30,853 in time to make it to the next broadcast. 910 00:50:32,290 --> 00:50:35,554 When MTM didn't get paid, the guy who filmed for him said, 911 00:50:35,597 --> 00:50:39,297 "well, you know, take me to court if you want some money." 912 00:50:39,340 --> 00:50:41,255 I was beyond being bankrupt. 913 00:50:42,648 --> 00:50:48,132 He ended up losing about $160,000 on the Killy TV series. 914 00:50:48,175 --> 00:50:51,570 And it was a devastating blow for Warren. 915 00:50:51,613 --> 00:50:54,877 He had to strip down his company, 916 00:50:54,921 --> 00:50:56,705 he had to sell equipment. 917 00:50:58,229 --> 00:50:59,926 [Kurt] Now that Killy was in his seventies, 918 00:50:59,969 --> 00:51:03,582 so the accumulation now of the amount of travelers 919 00:51:03,625 --> 00:51:08,413 doing on the relationship with my mother, you know, was just on the horizon. 920 00:51:08,456 --> 00:51:11,285 So I bet that would probably be a very difficult time for my father. 921 00:51:11,329 --> 00:51:13,287 You know, trying to make a living, 922 00:51:13,331 --> 00:51:15,246 the relationship's not going good, 923 00:51:15,289 --> 00:51:18,727 and you're hurting financially, that'd be hard. 924 00:51:21,078 --> 00:51:23,645 In the wake of blind ambition, 925 00:51:23,689 --> 00:51:28,041 often there's loved ones that are misunderstood, 926 00:51:28,085 --> 00:51:32,089 left behind, hurt, don't understand the passion. 927 00:51:34,482 --> 00:51:37,181 My mom is incredible, my dad's loving, 928 00:51:37,224 --> 00:51:40,445 but I look at how hard I work in a relationship now 929 00:51:40,488 --> 00:51:43,012 I can only imagine that as it went on, 930 00:51:43,056 --> 00:51:44,449 he was working hard and doing more, 931 00:51:44,492 --> 00:51:46,407 and it didn't have the free time to hey, 932 00:51:46,451 --> 00:51:47,408 let me show you my family. 933 00:51:50,237 --> 00:51:55,808 My father would film us while we were in Sun Valley Idaho, where we were together. 934 00:51:55,851 --> 00:51:59,290 You will not find anything like that after the '70s. 935 00:51:59,333 --> 00:52:01,770 There was no way, not involved in anything. 936 00:52:06,775 --> 00:52:08,342 He quit, good question for my dad. 937 00:52:13,130 --> 00:52:15,219 [Warren] The first thing you do is you buy three alarm clocks. 938 00:52:15,262 --> 00:52:20,398 You put one by bed, you put one in the coldest place in the house, 939 00:52:20,441 --> 00:52:24,271 bathroom floor and the third one, you put it in the shower. 940 00:52:24,315 --> 00:52:26,273 And you set one for four, one for 4:15, 941 00:52:26,317 --> 00:52:28,232 and one for 4:25 in the morning. 942 00:52:28,275 --> 00:52:29,668 And if you're still in bed at 4:30, 943 00:52:29,711 --> 00:52:30,973 you're never going to make it. 944 00:52:31,017 --> 00:52:33,889 [slow music] 945 00:53:09,229 --> 00:53:12,798 [Brian] Warren Miller is probably one of the hardest working people 946 00:53:12,841 --> 00:53:14,452 I've ever been around. 947 00:53:16,062 --> 00:53:22,938 And he sacrificed his life for his love 948 00:53:23,852 --> 00:53:26,246 of the skiing industry. 949 00:53:26,290 --> 00:53:29,118 His life suffered... a lot 950 00:53:29,162 --> 00:53:33,210 because of his workaholic behavior his obsession. 951 00:53:33,253 --> 00:53:34,994 [piano music] 952 00:53:35,037 --> 00:53:37,126 [Warren] Stress was really tough, 953 00:53:37,170 --> 00:53:39,520 it was tough on my family. 954 00:53:39,564 --> 00:53:42,871 When you leave a wife and once your kids at home, 955 00:53:42,915 --> 00:53:46,962 and you're spending a life of bachelorhood on the road... 956 00:53:48,747 --> 00:53:49,661 what do you do? 957 00:53:52,794 --> 00:53:56,842 [Andy] Warren did not have a very helpful role model 958 00:53:56,885 --> 00:53:59,497 in the dysfunctional household that he grew up in. 959 00:53:59,540 --> 00:54:02,978 And he probably didn't really know, 960 00:54:03,022 --> 00:54:06,025 you know, what he could or should have done. 961 00:54:06,068 --> 00:54:09,594 I don't think his dad was a hands-on father. 962 00:54:09,637 --> 00:54:12,249 Warren will tell you that he was an alcoholic, 963 00:54:12,292 --> 00:54:14,163 basically drank himself to death. 964 00:54:15,426 --> 00:54:16,905 [Warren] That's something that you don't bother 965 00:54:16,949 --> 00:54:18,690 because nobody can understand it. 966 00:54:18,733 --> 00:54:21,432 They can't understand how I felt at the time, 967 00:54:21,475 --> 00:54:23,651 because I didn't know any other alcoholics. 968 00:54:24,870 --> 00:54:26,654 Three or four other kids in our Boy Scout troop 969 00:54:26,698 --> 00:54:29,178 would borrow their parents, would load up their cars 970 00:54:29,222 --> 00:54:30,571 and drive us all to Yosemite. 971 00:54:31,572 --> 00:54:33,661 I could never depend on something like that. 972 00:54:34,793 --> 00:54:37,317 Well, my father always said, "Yeah, I'll take you." 973 00:54:37,361 --> 00:54:41,365 And then "Hey, we're all here, where are you?" 974 00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:44,498 He wouldn't even show up. 975 00:54:48,197 --> 00:54:50,199 [interviewer] Did you have to explain that to everybody else? 976 00:54:52,767 --> 00:54:54,421 I use the old that he's sick. 977 00:54:55,901 --> 00:54:57,729 "Well, I'm sorry, my dad got sick. 978 00:54:58,904 --> 00:54:59,992 He's got the flu." 979 00:55:02,690 --> 00:55:05,998 You could cover a lot with that, "he's got the flu" excuse. 980 00:55:06,955 --> 00:55:08,392 [interviewer] Did you ever ask him where he was? 981 00:55:10,481 --> 00:55:13,048 No, I mean, you know, why I ask him something when you already know the answer. 982 00:55:15,224 --> 00:55:17,314 Anyway, he's who he was, 983 00:55:17,357 --> 00:55:20,795 and kids don't change their parents very often. 984 00:55:20,839 --> 00:55:22,144 It's the other way around. 985 00:55:23,624 --> 00:55:26,801 I'm just glad I, I didn't take up any of his habits. 986 00:55:27,802 --> 00:55:28,847 I'm glad of that. 987 00:55:30,631 --> 00:55:34,679 Clearly it was easier and more natural 988 00:55:34,722 --> 00:55:37,377 for Warren to go off and do his business 989 00:55:37,421 --> 00:55:39,118 so he could support his family, 990 00:55:39,161 --> 00:55:40,815 that's the way he was. 991 00:55:40,859 --> 00:55:45,342 What he sacrificed was a life with his family. 992 00:55:45,385 --> 00:55:48,388 In order to do that-- now he gave us, we got the rewards of living at the beach 993 00:55:48,432 --> 00:55:51,304 and surfing and sailing and those types of things. 994 00:55:51,348 --> 00:55:53,088 But if you look at the sacrifice, you know, 995 00:55:53,132 --> 00:55:54,351 he wasn't there on my birthday. 996 00:55:56,265 --> 00:55:57,876 He'd come home with Thanksgiving day Turkey, 997 00:55:57,919 --> 00:55:59,921 but then he would leave and do a show. 998 00:56:00,835 --> 00:56:05,057 He was not there when my sister was born... by choice. 999 00:56:07,015 --> 00:56:10,628 [Chris] He was never satisfied... being home. 1000 00:56:10,671 --> 00:56:13,239 He always wanted to be going-- what's the next thing we're going to do 1001 00:56:13,282 --> 00:56:14,501 and where do we go? 1002 00:56:16,068 --> 00:56:20,333 He loved having a nice home, but it wasn't really his home. 1003 00:56:20,377 --> 00:56:24,424 His home is out there, out there in the world and 1004 00:56:24,468 --> 00:56:27,340 the bigger picture kind of, of "home." 1005 00:56:28,863 --> 00:56:32,301 [Andy] In some ways they gave up their father, 1006 00:56:32,345 --> 00:56:37,742 so their father could be the father of US skiing. 1007 00:56:39,308 --> 00:56:41,354 [Chris] As a kid, I didn't realize 1008 00:56:41,398 --> 00:56:44,488 whenever he would go away that he would be back. 1009 00:56:44,531 --> 00:56:49,188 In my mind he was going and I'd never see him again. 1010 00:56:49,231 --> 00:56:52,234 And so if there's a lot of memories 1011 00:56:52,278 --> 00:56:55,412 besides this photograph of me clinging onto his leg 1012 00:56:55,455 --> 00:56:59,198 as a toddler a little girl and don't leave. 1013 00:57:00,242 --> 00:57:02,201 I must've been like a year and a half old, 1014 00:57:02,244 --> 00:57:03,855 because I'm just a little thing. 1015 00:57:04,899 --> 00:57:07,336 Came up to his knee cap in the photograph... 1016 00:57:08,381 --> 00:57:10,731 that just sizes up my dad. 1017 00:57:10,775 --> 00:57:14,213 He's bigger than life to me even today. Um... 1018 00:57:18,086 --> 00:57:20,045 Anyway, I'm sorry. [cries] 1019 00:57:21,742 --> 00:57:25,050 [piano music] 1020 00:57:25,093 --> 00:57:28,227 [Dan] When you look at any kingpin in any industry, 1021 00:57:28,270 --> 00:57:30,534 there was a price to be paid for success. 1022 00:57:33,145 --> 00:57:35,234 What are you willing to pay? 1023 00:57:35,277 --> 00:57:38,498 What are you willing to give up? What are you willing to pursue? 1024 00:57:38,542 --> 00:57:41,022 It's a dream, it's a myth that you can have it all, right? 1025 00:57:42,894 --> 00:57:43,721 You can't. 1026 00:57:46,158 --> 00:57:47,725 If you can't give your wife what she wants, 1027 00:57:47,768 --> 00:57:49,291 she's going to find it somewhere else. 1028 00:57:49,335 --> 00:57:51,859 [piano music] 1029 00:57:53,513 --> 00:57:56,864 I wasn't there, she found somebody else... 1030 00:58:00,433 --> 00:58:02,087 that was the end of that whole thing. 1031 00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:04,959 [Chris] My mom was in her mid forties 1032 00:58:05,003 --> 00:58:08,659 and she was not only lonely but she was feeling like, 1033 00:58:08,702 --> 00:58:11,270 "Okay, my life is going by here, 1034 00:58:11,313 --> 00:58:12,880 and I don't have anyone to share it with." 1035 00:58:15,492 --> 00:58:19,887 And they separated after this short, short affair. 1036 00:58:19,931 --> 00:58:21,889 [snaps fingers] That was it. 1037 00:58:24,805 --> 00:58:27,591 [Warren] That's a whole part of my life that I never talked about. 1038 00:58:30,289 --> 00:58:34,293 It's what she chose to do... anyway. 1039 00:58:40,255 --> 00:58:42,170 I somehow shouldered my way out of that 1040 00:58:42,214 --> 00:58:43,868 and kept right on doing it. 1041 00:58:45,260 --> 00:58:48,002 Not at all, actually I'm about to show her show, go on. 1042 00:58:48,046 --> 00:58:49,874 If you don't have that attitude, 1043 00:58:49,917 --> 00:58:52,006 you don't deserve to be in show business. 1044 00:58:52,050 --> 00:58:54,531 [piano music] 1045 00:58:58,273 --> 00:59:02,669 [Warren] Out here there is risk, there's pleasure, there's freedom, 1046 00:59:02,713 --> 00:59:05,585 there is an edge, an edge where we say enough. 1047 00:59:05,629 --> 00:59:11,243 Warren was down in the dumps and beaten, but he'd been down before. 1048 00:59:11,286 --> 00:59:15,029 And when his back was against the wall, he always responded. 1049 00:59:15,073 --> 00:59:17,118 [Warren] Because each of us has drawn a line and edge 1050 00:59:17,162 --> 00:59:18,946 that we won't ski beyond. 1051 00:59:18,990 --> 00:59:21,732 That edge separates our instinct for self preservation, 1052 00:59:21,775 --> 00:59:25,300 from our urge to risk it all by climbing just a little higher. 1053 00:59:25,344 --> 00:59:27,520 [rock music] 1054 00:59:27,564 --> 00:59:29,957 [Dan] He realized that to reinvent himself, 1055 00:59:30,001 --> 00:59:32,351 he needed to reach out to new people, 1056 00:59:32,394 --> 00:59:33,961 and not forget his roots. 1057 00:59:35,093 --> 00:59:37,225 That was a game changer, it was a paradigm shift. 1058 00:59:37,269 --> 00:59:41,403 ♪ Beyond the edge twenty miles a minute ♪ 1059 00:59:41,447 --> 00:59:44,363 ♪ Shot like a bullet from a frozen gun ♪ 1060 00:59:44,406 --> 00:59:47,235 His films took on a new energy, a new life. 1061 00:59:47,279 --> 00:59:50,717 There was upbeat music, there was perspective, 1062 00:59:50,761 --> 00:59:52,763 the footage was unbelievable. 1063 00:59:52,806 --> 00:59:55,679 [upbeat music] 1064 00:59:55,722 --> 00:59:57,637 [Bill] When we see something spectacular on the screen, 1065 00:59:57,681 --> 00:59:59,378 we say, how did, how did they do it? 1066 00:59:59,421 --> 01:00:00,945 Can you share some of those secrets? 1067 01:00:00,988 --> 01:00:03,208 Well, Bill, I've been very fortunate over the years 1068 01:00:03,251 --> 01:00:06,428 in having a group of very dedicated people working with me. 1069 01:00:07,908 --> 01:00:09,997 Warren liked people who worked their butts off. 1070 01:00:10,041 --> 01:00:12,260 He just loved that that's old school, you know. 1071 01:00:12,304 --> 01:00:14,567 Let's face it, going out on the side of the mountain, 1072 01:00:14,611 --> 01:00:16,438 it's always below freezing. [chuckles] 1073 01:00:16,482 --> 01:00:18,484 And back in the day with mechanical stuff, 1074 01:00:18,527 --> 01:00:20,617 batteries going dead and everything, 1075 01:00:20,660 --> 01:00:22,836 I mean, I think he felt a special kinship 1076 01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:26,840 with the cameraman who are out there doing it like he used to do it. 1077 01:00:26,884 --> 01:00:29,713 [Warren] Almost forgotten when you're skiing this deeper and deeper stuff 1078 01:00:29,756 --> 01:00:32,803 for the cameramen who have to be able to ski wherever the skiers do. 1079 01:00:32,846 --> 01:00:36,110 And ski with about 50 pounds of camera gear on their backs. 1080 01:00:37,242 --> 01:00:38,635 Cameraman Brian Sisselman 1081 01:00:38,678 --> 01:00:40,114 has taken many of the great pictures 1082 01:00:40,158 --> 01:00:42,290 you've been watching for the last ten years. 1083 01:00:42,334 --> 01:00:45,076 And, yes, making movies really is a cinch. 1084 01:00:45,119 --> 01:00:46,643 All you have to be able to do is ski ride 1085 01:00:46,686 --> 01:00:48,732 along with the guys while they're ripping it up 1086 01:00:48,775 --> 01:00:50,472 and you're aiming your camera by instinct 1087 01:00:50,516 --> 01:00:52,126 and experience only. 1088 01:00:52,170 --> 01:00:54,694 And another one of our team of the best in the world 1089 01:00:54,738 --> 01:00:56,522 is Gary Nate from Ogden, Utah. 1090 01:00:59,917 --> 01:01:02,484 Gary is the world's oldest teenager. 1091 01:01:02,528 --> 01:01:04,225 [Kim] And Gary is a classic individual, I mean, 1092 01:01:04,269 --> 01:01:07,315 he's just one of the most colorful people you'll ever meet. 1093 01:01:07,359 --> 01:01:09,013 [footsteps thumping] 1094 01:01:10,014 --> 01:01:13,626 Uh, well, that's about Bell and Howell D70 1095 01:01:13,670 --> 01:01:15,193 that is a wind up camera 1096 01:01:15,236 --> 01:01:17,891 and it was Warren's first camera, 1097 01:01:17,935 --> 01:01:20,154 but it was given to Warren and with that camera 1098 01:01:20,198 --> 01:01:22,809 on $500 of borrowed money, 1099 01:01:22,853 --> 01:01:26,944 he did his first film Deep And Lightin 1949. 1100 01:01:26,987 --> 01:01:29,686 [slow music] 1101 01:01:29,729 --> 01:01:35,169 To me, it was part of my head, all I needed to do was this. 1102 01:01:35,213 --> 01:01:37,650 And it was just like I'm looking at you. 1103 01:01:37,694 --> 01:01:42,568 As opposed to some of the other cameras, uh, that you see today, 1104 01:01:42,611 --> 01:01:47,442 you know, of course, you know, we're not talking GoPro here. [laughs] 1105 01:01:47,486 --> 01:01:49,749 You stick a GoPro in your ear and the way you go. 1106 01:01:49,793 --> 01:01:52,099 [dramatic music] 1107 01:01:52,143 --> 01:01:55,015 [Warren] Surrounded by 13 peaks over 12,000 feet, 1108 01:01:55,059 --> 01:01:56,538 Gary Nate rigged up a Bolex 1109 01:01:56,582 --> 01:01:59,280 and he had a 5.9 millimeter wide angle lens. 1110 01:01:59,324 --> 01:02:02,240 The special mount that he designed and built himself. 1111 01:02:02,283 --> 01:02:06,766 Strapping it on to Todd Brown, they began the 15-kilometer run back down to the village 1112 01:02:06,810 --> 01:02:10,378 with Mike Slattery, Max Berbee and Billy Madsen. 1113 01:02:10,422 --> 01:02:13,381 [dramatic music] 1114 01:02:15,035 --> 01:02:18,212 Okay, what I have here is a home made chest mount, 1115 01:02:18,256 --> 01:02:19,648 that you've put on your chest. 1116 01:02:19,692 --> 01:02:22,956 I had, uh, a guy actually engineer this 1117 01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:25,742 so that you could raise it or lower it, 1118 01:02:25,785 --> 01:02:28,483 depending upon, you know, whether you wanted it up or down, 1119 01:02:28,527 --> 01:02:32,226 or whether you were like this or whether wherever you were in the air, 1120 01:02:32,270 --> 01:02:36,361 it was just like that, bam, there you go. You're good to go. 1121 01:02:36,404 --> 01:02:41,192 And then what we used to do, we clear a path down the bumps, have them go into the bumps, 1122 01:02:41,235 --> 01:02:44,499 and I just go down the clear path a little bit of an angle... 1123 01:02:45,805 --> 01:02:47,894 full throttle all the way down. 1124 01:02:47,938 --> 01:02:49,809 [Kim] The combination between the two, because if a skier 1125 01:02:49,853 --> 01:02:52,246 doesn't do his deal and the cameraman doesn't do his deal. 1126 01:02:52,290 --> 01:02:54,683 One of the other can do what they're supposed to be doing perfectly. 1127 01:02:54,727 --> 01:02:57,077 But if they both don't do it at the same time, you know, 1128 01:02:57,121 --> 01:03:00,037 one misses their mark, one misses their focus whatever. 1129 01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:00,994 Gone, it's done! 1130 01:03:03,518 --> 01:03:05,651 Well, the last 40 years almost every place I've been, 1131 01:03:05,694 --> 01:03:08,785 and that's just about all over the world, people have always said, 1132 01:03:08,828 --> 01:03:10,830 "What's the best place in the world to ski?" And I've always said 1133 01:03:10,874 --> 01:03:13,311 the same thing sounds can, but it's really not. 1134 01:03:13,354 --> 01:03:16,531 Wherever you are at the time is the best place because that's where you are, 1135 01:03:16,575 --> 01:03:18,229 the snow is white, it's on the side of a hill, 1136 01:03:18,272 --> 01:03:20,361 the lifts running, nobody's checking tickets, 1137 01:03:20,405 --> 01:03:21,928 you get the ride free, it's fabulous. 1138 01:03:23,669 --> 01:03:25,889 And a lot of that, you know, if you know your way around, 1139 01:03:25,932 --> 01:03:28,587 you can get away with it at any resort in the world. 1140 01:03:28,630 --> 01:03:29,849 Take my word for it. 1141 01:03:29,893 --> 01:03:32,373 [piano music] 1142 01:03:33,592 --> 01:03:36,682 [John] Warren brought the wild mountains to more skiers 1143 01:03:36,725 --> 01:03:41,600 than any other cameraman or, or producer, filmmaker out there. 1144 01:03:42,775 --> 01:03:46,474 [Dan] A Warren Miller film is a, is a contrast. 1145 01:03:46,518 --> 01:03:49,042 It's wild place and skiing, 1146 01:03:49,086 --> 01:03:52,263 it's telling the audience, "Hey, sit up, pay attention. 1147 01:03:52,306 --> 01:03:54,787 We're going somewhere that's going to blow your mind." 1148 01:03:55,919 --> 01:03:58,878 So the locations are critical. 1149 01:03:58,922 --> 01:04:00,662 They have to be exotic, 1150 01:04:00,706 --> 01:04:04,884 they have to be the names that echo around in your brain. 1151 01:04:04,928 --> 01:04:07,931 I didn't know they skied in Romania. 1152 01:04:09,628 --> 01:04:11,935 [Warren] To really step back into a time warp, 1153 01:04:11,978 --> 01:04:13,980 go to Transylvania Romania, 1154 01:04:14,024 --> 01:04:15,721 where you can ride clear across the country 1155 01:04:15,764 --> 01:04:17,636 on the train for only 85 cents. 1156 01:04:19,116 --> 01:04:20,857 You can't figure out where to get off, 1157 01:04:20,900 --> 01:04:23,860 you can ride in a cab with a guy that chain smokes, 1158 01:04:23,903 --> 01:04:25,992 took his last bath in September 1159 01:04:26,036 --> 01:04:28,473 and his taxi windows won't roll down. 1160 01:04:28,516 --> 01:04:30,910 [Chris] And they were the first film company 1161 01:04:30,954 --> 01:04:33,086 that was allowed into Russia. 1162 01:04:33,130 --> 01:04:36,916 They were the first film company to film Kazakhstan. 1163 01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:39,179 [Warren] I was a little nervous when I discovered that the pilot 1164 01:04:39,223 --> 01:04:41,442 was our bartender from the night before. 1165 01:04:41,486 --> 01:04:45,229 As we got up above 13, 14,000 feet and headed East, 1166 01:04:45,272 --> 01:04:47,753 I fell sound asleep as we flew over France, 1167 01:04:47,796 --> 01:04:50,625 Switzerland, Austria and Germany. 1168 01:04:50,669 --> 01:04:53,106 I must've slept for seven maybe eight hours, 1169 01:04:53,150 --> 01:04:54,847 because we flew all the way to Moscow. 1170 01:04:54,891 --> 01:04:57,894 [symphony music] 1171 01:04:59,983 --> 01:05:02,550 [Dan] When you go into Istanbul, Turkey, 1172 01:05:02,594 --> 01:05:06,076 or you sneak into Beirut, Lebanon, 1173 01:05:06,990 --> 01:05:09,427 it's not so much Warren Miller films 1174 01:05:09,470 --> 01:05:12,996 that people are accepting, they're more curious, why you're here. 1175 01:05:14,823 --> 01:05:18,131 Why are you carrying skis and why you wearing boots 1176 01:05:18,175 --> 01:05:19,698 through our marketplace? 1177 01:05:22,179 --> 01:05:25,443 [Warren] Dan and John are from Boston using skis made in Austria, 1178 01:05:25,486 --> 01:05:27,924 Italian ski boots wearing Japanese goggles. 1179 01:05:27,967 --> 01:05:30,839 Underwear made in Georgia at a ski resort in Turkey, 1180 01:05:30,883 --> 01:05:33,103 trying to ride a ski lift that was made in France 1181 01:05:33,146 --> 01:05:35,844 and had been broken by a helicopter made in Russia. 1182 01:05:36,889 --> 01:05:39,283 Which proves that skiing really is a way of life 1183 01:05:39,326 --> 01:05:42,112 that knows no international or economic boundaries. 1184 01:05:43,026 --> 01:05:46,899 [Dan] And to see a skier in that place was amazing. 1185 01:05:48,770 --> 01:05:50,990 We worked really hard to get that 1186 01:05:51,034 --> 01:05:53,601 being halfway around the world hearing about, 1187 01:05:53,645 --> 01:05:56,387 "Oh, there was a freak snowstorm." 1188 01:05:56,430 --> 01:05:59,564 Buying some six-dollar bus ticket 1189 01:05:59,607 --> 01:06:05,526 for 15 hour bus ride and then hire a cab with no snow tires. 1190 01:06:05,570 --> 01:06:09,313 The guy has never driven in snow before, he gets a flat tire, 1191 01:06:09,356 --> 01:06:10,923 he gets stuck, he pulls a gun, 1192 01:06:10,967 --> 01:06:13,230 we take the bullets from the gun. 1193 01:06:13,273 --> 01:06:15,493 We-- like everything's happening. 1194 01:06:15,536 --> 01:06:17,495 But we end up with the shot. 1195 01:06:17,538 --> 01:06:20,628 We book ourselves into a hotel that was a cave. 1196 01:06:20,672 --> 01:06:23,414 [laughs] And it was like, we slept on rock beds 1197 01:06:23,457 --> 01:06:26,373 and-- but unbelievable. 1198 01:06:26,417 --> 01:06:28,071 And Warren's like, 1199 01:06:28,114 --> 01:06:30,899 "Yeah, that's what we're after." 1200 01:06:30,943 --> 01:06:35,034 This isn't about going left and right down any slope. 1201 01:06:35,078 --> 01:06:37,863 This is about taking somebody to someplace 1202 01:06:37,906 --> 01:06:39,125 they've never been before. 1203 01:06:42,172 --> 01:06:45,305 [camera shuttering] 1204 01:06:45,349 --> 01:06:47,481 [Warren] Time, there's all kinds of it, 1205 01:06:47,525 --> 01:06:50,658 and the only thing in life we own, no one can give you any, 1206 01:06:50,702 --> 01:06:52,617 but people can take it away from you. 1207 01:06:52,660 --> 01:06:57,143 You can waste it or you can invest it in ski time. 1208 01:06:57,187 --> 01:06:58,710 [Dan] The start of the movie Ski Time 1209 01:06:58,753 --> 01:07:01,495 is shot in Squaw Valley, California on Eagle's Nest 1210 01:07:01,539 --> 01:07:03,715 at the top of KT-22. 1211 01:07:03,758 --> 01:07:06,848 And it's a really steep, uh, cliff face 1212 01:07:06,892 --> 01:07:09,677 that sometimes has snow and sometimes doesn't have snow. 1213 01:07:09,721 --> 01:07:12,071 And Schmidt drops in, 1214 01:07:12,115 --> 01:07:16,858 in that iconic sideways shmear turn 1215 01:07:16,902 --> 01:07:19,861 on this really steep face, 1216 01:07:19,905 --> 01:07:23,691 snow is flying, and he makes these turns 1217 01:07:23,735 --> 01:07:30,350 and you just come into the moment that it's time. 1218 01:07:30,394 --> 01:07:32,787 It's time to get out there and get after it 1219 01:07:32,831 --> 01:07:36,400 because the cat on the film is crushing it right now. 1220 01:07:36,443 --> 01:07:39,142 And you can't even believe what he's skiing 1221 01:07:39,185 --> 01:07:41,753 as only Scot Schmidt can. 1222 01:07:41,796 --> 01:07:44,712 [Scot] Your life as your, your physical being is at risk, 1223 01:07:44,756 --> 01:07:47,802 so therefore you are forced to be focused here, 1224 01:07:47,846 --> 01:07:49,108 forced to be in that moment. 1225 01:07:49,152 --> 01:07:50,892 [Warren] Scot Schmidt, 1226 01:07:50,936 --> 01:07:53,547 his mother and father raised him wrong. 1227 01:07:53,591 --> 01:07:56,898 [dramatic music] 1228 01:08:04,645 --> 01:08:08,562 [Brian] Warren had a way of dropping back, having some objectivity. 1229 01:08:08,606 --> 01:08:12,392 So when Scot Schmidt hurls himself off this cliff, 1230 01:08:12,436 --> 01:08:15,134 it's like half the people on the audience are thinking, 1231 01:08:15,178 --> 01:08:17,745 "What is wrong with this guy?" 1232 01:08:17,789 --> 01:08:22,010 You know, [chuckles] "How does it that his mom let him do that?" [laughs] 1233 01:08:22,054 --> 01:08:24,665 That is just-- that's just wrong. 1234 01:08:26,493 --> 01:08:28,495 [Scot] "Dear Scot, just a short note to tell you about 1235 01:08:28,539 --> 01:08:31,629 the footage of you leaping through space at Squaw Valley. 1236 01:08:31,672 --> 01:08:34,153 Just thought I'd let you know, it's probably the most spectacular footage 1237 01:08:34,197 --> 01:08:36,155 that has ever come into my-- our offices. 1238 01:08:36,199 --> 01:08:39,115 Next time we look for someone to go to a foreign country, 1239 01:08:39,158 --> 01:08:41,769 to ski in our films, would you be interested? 1240 01:08:41,813 --> 01:08:44,163 I remain sincere, Warren Miller." 1241 01:08:44,207 --> 01:08:47,862 -[chuckles] -[Warren] Here he showed up and his ski boots were shine 1242 01:08:47,906 --> 01:08:51,083 and the buckles all buckled and they weren't rusty and, 1243 01:08:51,127 --> 01:08:54,304 I think it was the yellow packer was your uniform of the day. 1244 01:08:55,305 --> 01:08:57,568 He wore the, he wore the same clothes all the time 1245 01:08:57,611 --> 01:08:59,135 and then when we were editing, 1246 01:08:59,178 --> 01:09:01,311 we could take a shot out of Yellowstone Club 1247 01:09:01,354 --> 01:09:03,661 and put it in New Zealand or vice versa. 1248 01:09:03,704 --> 01:09:05,315 How old were you when that-- you got that? 1249 01:09:05,358 --> 01:09:07,186 I was at 21 years old, 1250 01:09:07,230 --> 01:09:08,405 when I received this letter from you 1251 01:09:08,448 --> 01:09:10,755 and we sure stirred things up a bit, 1252 01:09:10,798 --> 01:09:12,583 -and it was really fun. -[Warren] Yeah. 1253 01:09:12,626 --> 01:09:15,238 [Scot] When I found this, things changed overnight for me. 1254 01:09:18,806 --> 01:09:21,461 [Andy] Warren had evolved his brand. 1255 01:09:21,505 --> 01:09:23,637 He was always welcomed to 1256 01:09:23,681 --> 01:09:25,900 new ways of getting down the mountain 1257 01:09:25,944 --> 01:09:28,555 and certainly bringing a stream skiing 1258 01:09:28,599 --> 01:09:33,081 into his film with Scot Schmidt helped move the needle. 1259 01:09:33,125 --> 01:09:34,996 But, uh, you know, Warren could feel it, 1260 01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:37,956 he could see that there were new young filmmakers coming up 1261 01:09:37,999 --> 01:09:41,438 like Greg Stump who are going to change the world. 1262 01:09:42,308 --> 01:09:45,529 [Greg] In 1983, I basically schmoozed my way 1263 01:09:45,572 --> 01:09:47,879 into a Warren Miller film. 1264 01:09:47,922 --> 01:09:50,055 So in Ski Time, which is coincidentally, 1265 01:09:50,098 --> 01:09:52,666 that's my only Warren Miller movie that I skied in 1266 01:09:52,710 --> 01:09:55,843 and also Scot Schmidt first movie he skied in. 1267 01:09:55,887 --> 01:09:58,455 [Warren] The storms that ruined Malibu, well they buried Snow Valley 1268 01:09:58,498 --> 01:10:00,587 with as much as six feet of snow at a time. 1269 01:10:01,632 --> 01:10:03,895 So their 12 charlottes attracted a lot of skiers 1270 01:10:03,938 --> 01:10:07,246 from the six million people that live within a hundred miles. 1271 01:10:07,290 --> 01:10:11,250 It attracted good skiers like Greg Stump, Terry Overmeyer, Scott Willingham. 1272 01:10:12,338 --> 01:10:13,774 But I was ultimately doing it 1273 01:10:13,818 --> 01:10:15,907 because I wanted to promote myself. 1274 01:10:15,950 --> 01:10:18,083 When the movie came out in the theaters, I was proud as punch man. 1275 01:10:18,126 --> 01:10:19,606 I brought my friends to the Warren Miller movie 1276 01:10:19,650 --> 01:10:21,869 and there's Greg Stump from Gorham, Maine. 1277 01:10:23,567 --> 01:10:25,786 [Warren] Greg Stumps from Gorham, Maine. 1278 01:10:25,830 --> 01:10:28,528 He was national amateur freestyle and ballet champion. 1279 01:10:30,226 --> 01:10:34,273 I tricked him, you know, [stutters] I did it right before my first movie came out. 1280 01:10:34,317 --> 01:10:36,362 I didn't care about being in a Warren Miller movie, 1281 01:10:36,406 --> 01:10:39,278 I cared about promoting Greg Stump the ski filmmaker 1282 01:10:39,322 --> 01:10:42,412 and he realized that I, I duped him. 1283 01:10:42,455 --> 01:10:44,892 And so he's like, "I'll get that guy and change his name." 1284 01:10:44,936 --> 01:10:47,852 And when Ski Timecame out on VHS... 1285 01:10:47,895 --> 01:10:51,812 [tape rewinding] 1286 01:10:51,856 --> 01:10:53,640 [Warren] Todd Stockwell is from Yucaipa, 1287 01:10:53,684 --> 01:10:55,033 and he's an avocado grower. 1288 01:10:56,121 --> 01:10:57,905 [upbeat music] 1289 01:10:57,949 --> 01:11:01,431 He went to the trouble of going back 1290 01:11:01,474 --> 01:11:03,389 and re-narrating my sequence. 1291 01:11:03,433 --> 01:11:06,436 He was competitive by nature he wanted to win, 1292 01:11:06,479 --> 01:11:10,048 he wanted to be the best, it was part of his DNA. 1293 01:11:10,962 --> 01:11:13,269 [Greg] I asked Warren, he, he denied that he did it. 1294 01:11:13,312 --> 01:11:16,707 He didn't remember, you know, and, uh, but they did it, 1295 01:11:16,750 --> 01:11:18,970 it's Warren's voice, and I'm no longer Greg Stump, 1296 01:11:19,013 --> 01:11:21,277 I'm Greg Stottlemyre, avocado farmer. 1297 01:11:22,452 --> 01:11:23,453 [chuckles] 1298 01:11:23,496 --> 01:11:25,629 [eerie music] 1299 01:11:35,987 --> 01:11:38,946 [Brian] One of the great things about watching the ski films 1300 01:11:38,990 --> 01:11:43,734 is the just immaculate beauty of the surroundings 1301 01:11:43,777 --> 01:11:47,825 contrasted with this intense danger. 1302 01:11:52,525 --> 01:11:55,963 Skiers are severely injured all the time. 1303 01:11:56,007 --> 01:11:58,836 We lose friends every single year 1304 01:11:58,879 --> 01:12:04,276 there's a couple of guys that we either knew or knew of... 1305 01:12:05,190 --> 01:12:11,022 that lost their life to traumatic brain injury... avalanche. 1306 01:12:12,589 --> 01:12:14,808 [man] Is this dangerous what we're looking at? It looks like a good-- 1307 01:12:14,852 --> 01:12:16,854 [Warren] Well, these skiers, if there were football players, 1308 01:12:16,897 --> 01:12:19,465 they'd be playing on Sunday afternoon in an NFL game, 1309 01:12:19,509 --> 01:12:20,901 they are the world's best. 1310 01:12:23,164 --> 01:12:25,253 Managing risk in avalanche terrain 1311 01:12:25,297 --> 01:12:28,300 is all about personal survival. 1312 01:12:28,344 --> 01:12:30,389 Your life depends on the choices that you make. 1313 01:12:30,433 --> 01:12:33,261 [slow music] 1314 01:12:41,444 --> 01:12:43,271 [Scot] Yeah, I had a couple of really close calls 1315 01:12:43,315 --> 01:12:45,273 and realized very soon, early that 1316 01:12:45,317 --> 01:12:46,797 you don't mess with these things 1317 01:12:46,840 --> 01:12:48,407 because you will not win. 1318 01:12:48,451 --> 01:12:50,583 That's the white dragon, it can't be slate. 1319 01:12:53,238 --> 01:12:56,502 [Brad] All of us had near death experiences, 1320 01:12:56,546 --> 01:12:59,679 but one of the more famous ones on film is the Egan brothers. 1321 01:12:59,723 --> 01:13:02,726 [dramatic music] 1322 01:13:05,729 --> 01:13:09,646 We had danced through a lot of danger in our career 1323 01:13:09,689 --> 01:13:11,865 and that one you couldn't escape. 1324 01:13:15,260 --> 01:13:19,046 And we started down there and I just heard this noise 1325 01:13:19,090 --> 01:13:22,746 and it was, uh, a deafening, like someone dumped a bunch of 1326 01:13:22,789 --> 01:13:25,879 bee bees in a tin funnel into a big can. 1327 01:13:25,923 --> 01:13:29,274 It was a cornice that had filled in that part of the mountain 1328 01:13:29,317 --> 01:13:31,581 it looked like you could just ski right along the edge. 1329 01:13:31,624 --> 01:13:34,758 [dramatic music] 1330 01:13:39,110 --> 01:13:40,503 When that corn is broke, 1331 01:13:40,546 --> 01:13:43,114 I mean, it's the size of a Greyhound bus, 1332 01:13:43,157 --> 01:13:45,986 it dropped about 900 feet. 1333 01:13:46,030 --> 01:13:47,640 [Dan] Looking back at the mountain 1334 01:13:47,684 --> 01:13:49,903 and so much of the mountain was gone. 1335 01:13:49,947 --> 01:13:52,776 You see our tracks, they disappear 1336 01:13:52,819 --> 01:13:54,517 and then they begin again. 1337 01:13:54,560 --> 01:13:56,301 The number one question asked to 1338 01:13:56,344 --> 01:13:58,172 any either Edgan brother is, 1339 01:13:58,216 --> 01:14:00,566 "Where you in front or back?" [laughs] 1340 01:14:00,610 --> 01:14:02,786 Says "Yeah, and I was in the front." [laughs] 1341 01:14:04,483 --> 01:14:08,313 We had come a lot of times to really close calls, 1342 01:14:08,356 --> 01:14:10,446 but that, that was extremely close. 1343 01:14:11,403 --> 01:14:13,100 If you watch the footage closely, 1344 01:14:13,144 --> 01:14:15,625 you can see that John made a little bit of a snowplow 1345 01:14:15,668 --> 01:14:17,975 thinking he might have time to stop 1346 01:14:18,018 --> 01:14:20,194 and then realized he didn't have time. 1347 01:14:20,238 --> 01:14:23,589 So he pushed and that push is what saved his life. 1348 01:14:29,552 --> 01:14:31,031 [Warren] You ever heard of skier hurt? 1349 01:14:32,032 --> 01:14:35,514 Nobody ever broke their leg, nobody ever lost an arm, 1350 01:14:35,558 --> 01:14:39,083 nobody ever crushed into an automobile or anything like that. 1351 01:14:40,084 --> 01:14:42,216 I picked out a shot I wanted to get 1352 01:14:42,260 --> 01:14:45,045 and I asked the skier, "Can you handle that?" 1353 01:14:45,916 --> 01:14:49,136 Do you have any doubt? If they had any doubt at all we choose a different angle. 1354 01:14:50,311 --> 01:14:53,401 Give him, give him the benefit of the doubt all the time. 1355 01:14:53,445 --> 01:14:55,665 Because I wanted to make them look great. 1356 01:14:56,753 --> 01:14:59,016 [Warren] For the next six hours, we put one foot in front of the other, 1357 01:14:59,059 --> 01:15:00,539 looking for a slope that would be 1358 01:15:00,583 --> 01:15:02,672 a gourmet skiers piece de resistance. 1359 01:15:03,586 --> 01:15:06,197 The ropes are, because if you fell, 1360 01:15:06,240 --> 01:15:08,939 you drop almost a vertical mile to the rocks below. 1361 01:15:13,030 --> 01:15:15,119 How are these pictures taken? 1362 01:15:15,162 --> 01:15:16,642 Very carefully. 1363 01:15:16,686 --> 01:15:19,340 [Warren] Liberty gives me credit for taking my camera 1364 01:15:19,384 --> 01:15:21,429 to places that it's never been before. 1365 01:15:22,518 --> 01:15:25,259 I choose camera angles and places 1366 01:15:25,303 --> 01:15:27,566 where it really looks dangerous 1367 01:15:27,610 --> 01:15:30,874 but the skiers a guy that looks in a dangerous position 1368 01:15:30,917 --> 01:15:34,138 and I tried to not reveal what I was doing, 1369 01:15:34,181 --> 01:15:35,356 that's none of their business. 1370 01:15:36,923 --> 01:15:38,795 [Warren] Next morning, it was a bus ride to Lang 1371 01:15:38,838 --> 01:15:40,710 and a train ride to Zurich. 1372 01:15:40,753 --> 01:15:42,973 Then a jet plane ride to Vail, Colorado, 1373 01:15:43,016 --> 01:15:45,932 where I met my son Kurt and his partner Peter Speek. 1374 01:15:47,804 --> 01:15:50,763 The three of us are finally able to get time off together 1375 01:15:50,807 --> 01:15:53,287 so that they can join me in my lifelong search 1376 01:15:53,331 --> 01:15:54,941 for the free lift ticket. 1377 01:15:54,985 --> 01:15:57,944 Stop just above me about ten feet and try not to fall. 1378 01:15:59,337 --> 01:16:02,340 Okay, keep closer together! 1379 01:16:05,125 --> 01:16:06,736 You guys want to climb back up and do it again? 1380 01:16:08,520 --> 01:16:10,783 Peter, you got to be within three feet of him 1381 01:16:10,827 --> 01:16:13,003 or you're such a small image size in relation to him. 1382 01:16:13,046 --> 01:16:14,874 How about if we just ski down a little further? 1383 01:16:14,918 --> 01:16:16,920 Oh, this is good, good blue sky back there. 1384 01:16:16,963 --> 01:16:19,444 [Peter] I think, I think he likes to hike back up there, 1385 01:16:19,487 --> 01:16:20,750 I think he's enjoying that. 1386 01:16:20,793 --> 01:16:22,578 [crowd cheering] 1387 01:16:22,621 --> 01:16:24,492 [announcer] Today Warren Miller only turns up 1388 01:16:24,536 --> 01:16:27,147 for a personal appearance at about a half dozen 1389 01:16:27,191 --> 01:16:30,281 of the hundreds of showings of the company's latest ski film. 1390 01:16:30,324 --> 01:16:32,892 They are always sellouts and the onlookers 1391 01:16:32,936 --> 01:16:35,634 are reverential about his presence. 1392 01:16:35,678 --> 01:16:38,811 But to most audiences, he is just a familiar voice 1393 01:16:38,855 --> 01:16:40,334 on the narration track. 1394 01:16:40,378 --> 01:16:43,555 And in fact, Warren Miller no longer 1395 01:16:43,599 --> 01:16:45,731 owns Warren Miller Entertainment. 1396 01:16:45,775 --> 01:16:47,777 [Kurt] Damian, Kurt Miller calling. 1397 01:16:47,820 --> 01:16:49,648 [announcer] It was sold four years ago 1398 01:16:49,692 --> 01:16:53,347 to Miller's son Kurt and Kurt's partner, Peter Speek 1399 01:16:53,391 --> 01:16:56,176 with Warren agreeing to continue to write the script 1400 01:16:56,220 --> 01:16:58,048 and provide the lighthearted narration. 1401 01:16:58,918 --> 01:17:01,573 I worked for my father for 12 years 1402 01:17:01,617 --> 01:17:04,881 before I was lucky enough to be able to buy the company. 1403 01:17:04,924 --> 01:17:06,883 We ended up buying 80% of the company 1404 01:17:06,926 --> 01:17:08,754 for over a million dollars. 1405 01:17:10,016 --> 01:17:11,801 [Andy] Kurt and Peter made it clear that 1406 01:17:11,844 --> 01:17:15,152 they were in the driver's seat of this company. 1407 01:17:15,195 --> 01:17:19,722 All of a sudden Warren found himself as the employee 1408 01:17:19,765 --> 01:17:23,639 and somebody who didn't always have, uh, a lot of voice in things. 1409 01:17:26,206 --> 01:17:30,297 [John] Yeah, the early '90s, when Warren transitioned the film company 1410 01:17:30,341 --> 01:17:33,779 and sold it to his son Kurt, um, was tough. 1411 01:17:34,693 --> 01:17:39,872 And I think Warren had a different idea of how it might go. 1412 01:17:39,916 --> 01:17:43,136 [Kurt] Fight up specific formula that was 1413 01:17:44,007 --> 01:17:45,704 180 degrees from my father. 1414 01:17:47,358 --> 01:17:53,364 [Andy] Warren was 90% storyteller and, uh, and skier. 1415 01:17:53,407 --> 01:17:55,888 That's what he was all about, that was his passion. 1416 01:17:55,932 --> 01:17:59,805 And Kurt and Peter were 90% sales people. 1417 01:17:59,849 --> 01:18:01,720 That's what they wanted to do. 1418 01:18:01,764 --> 01:18:04,984 So there's where you had a difference of opinion. 1419 01:18:06,551 --> 01:18:08,335 Kind of a tough one when they do 1420 01:18:08,379 --> 01:18:11,861 something completely different than you would have done 1421 01:18:11,904 --> 01:18:13,427 in the same business situation. 1422 01:18:15,429 --> 01:18:20,217 [Andy] Kurt and Peter would want Warren to cut out his jokes, 1423 01:18:20,260 --> 01:18:23,263 which they felt were old and corny, 1424 01:18:23,307 --> 01:18:25,918 but which the audience still laughed at. 1425 01:18:25,962 --> 01:18:29,269 They wanted to take it to the next level. [laughs] 1426 01:18:29,313 --> 01:18:32,055 You know, they wanted to up the game, 1427 01:18:32,098 --> 01:18:33,665 they wanted to make money, 1428 01:18:33,709 --> 01:18:37,364 have sponsors, bigger, better, more. 1429 01:18:38,278 --> 01:18:40,585 [Kurt] Took it over in January of '89. 1430 01:18:40,628 --> 01:18:44,154 That year I'd estimate between 67,000 people 1431 01:18:44,197 --> 01:18:48,506 had come that fall to the film, $12 a ticket, eight dollars a ticket. 1432 01:18:48,549 --> 01:18:50,421 Over a 12-year period, 1433 01:18:50,464 --> 01:18:54,773 we grew in the United States to 300,000 people 1434 01:18:54,817 --> 01:18:57,210 and they were paying $22 a ticket. 1435 01:18:59,169 --> 01:19:01,040 I don't think he knew what we were doing. 1436 01:19:01,084 --> 01:19:03,347 I don't think he had any idea. 1437 01:19:03,390 --> 01:19:06,045 So we started bringing in the skiers as narrators. 1438 01:19:06,089 --> 01:19:08,744 They're there firsthand, they're there! 1439 01:19:10,136 --> 01:19:13,009 [man] Out here in Antarctica, 1440 01:19:13,052 --> 01:19:15,794 a continent that averages 7,000 vertical feet, 1441 01:19:15,838 --> 01:19:18,797 we got to be within reason in our own capabilities. 1442 01:19:19,711 --> 01:19:22,932 Even though it's always fun to push your abilities 1443 01:19:22,975 --> 01:19:25,978 because that's why you like to ski the extreme 1444 01:19:26,022 --> 01:19:28,546 for the excitement, the joy, the mystery. 1445 01:19:28,589 --> 01:19:31,636 We went from skiers who just skied 1446 01:19:31,679 --> 01:19:33,812 to skiers that were being interviewed. 1447 01:19:33,856 --> 01:19:36,032 Like we had anything to say, right? 1448 01:19:36,075 --> 01:19:38,512 I mean, [chuckles] we're skiers, [laughs] 1449 01:19:38,556 --> 01:19:40,297 like, just get out there and shred it, dude. 1450 01:19:40,340 --> 01:19:41,733 I don't really care what you have to say. 1451 01:19:42,821 --> 01:19:45,215 [interviewer] Can Warren Miller entertainment 1452 01:19:45,258 --> 01:19:48,827 work without Warren Miller? 1453 01:19:50,046 --> 01:19:53,919 Walt Disney died... that answered your question? 1454 01:19:56,008 --> 01:19:59,620 [Andy] A lot of the evolution that Kurt and Peter saw 1455 01:19:59,664 --> 01:20:03,668 were typical of what you do in propelling a brand forward. 1456 01:20:03,711 --> 01:20:06,932 But, uh, you know, they were different from Warren 1457 01:20:06,976 --> 01:20:10,893 and once they went down their different paths, 1458 01:20:10,936 --> 01:20:13,504 there really just wasn't any coming back. 1459 01:20:14,592 --> 01:20:17,900 Warren loves people. 1460 01:20:17,943 --> 01:20:19,815 He loves being in front of people, 1461 01:20:19,858 --> 01:20:21,991 and he loves inspiring people. 1462 01:20:22,034 --> 01:20:27,648 And I think being, you know, being phased out 1463 01:20:27,692 --> 01:20:30,086 was probably something he didn't really figure on. 1464 01:20:30,129 --> 01:20:33,132 [eerie music] 1465 01:20:41,924 --> 01:20:44,535 [Brian] I mean, it-- you know, it can't go on forever. 1466 01:20:44,578 --> 01:20:46,493 You know, and things do change. 1467 01:20:47,494 --> 01:20:51,847 And it was a sad thing, I mean, inevitable I guess, 1468 01:20:51,890 --> 01:20:55,807 but he was the force behind that... 1469 01:21:00,246 --> 01:21:02,161 and it disappeared. 1470 01:21:03,380 --> 01:21:05,208 Things change from the book, 1471 01:21:05,251 --> 01:21:07,253 from the many voices in the film. 1472 01:21:07,297 --> 01:21:10,996 And I guess what I'm really saying leading up to is, 1473 01:21:11,040 --> 01:21:15,696 that this is the start, my first annual farewell tour. 1474 01:21:18,743 --> 01:21:21,789 [audience applauding] 1475 01:21:24,880 --> 01:21:29,449 [Andy] Warren came to a crossroads in his life. 1476 01:21:29,493 --> 01:21:32,104 One thing that had happened in his personal life 1477 01:21:32,148 --> 01:21:33,497 is that he had met Laurie. 1478 01:21:35,978 --> 01:21:37,893 [Warren] My first met her in Sun Valley. 1479 01:21:37,936 --> 01:21:40,765 She owned a ski shop in Seattle at the time, 1480 01:21:40,808 --> 01:21:43,855 she had 105 ski instructors working for her. 1481 01:21:44,987 --> 01:21:48,512 Some dynamics between us that, uh, 1482 01:21:48,555 --> 01:21:50,296 I think very few people have. 1483 01:21:50,340 --> 01:21:52,429 She's just an all time great lady. 1484 01:21:53,386 --> 01:21:57,042 I have told her many times, particularly in the last few years two things, 1485 01:21:57,086 --> 01:22:00,132 "Had I not met you and had I not moved to Seattle, 1486 01:22:00,176 --> 01:22:01,873 I would have died 15 years ago." 1487 01:22:01,917 --> 01:22:04,920 Think about it, she owns a ski shop, right? 1488 01:22:04,963 --> 01:22:06,486 [audience laughing] 1489 01:22:06,530 --> 01:22:08,097 She was sitting in front of a window 1490 01:22:08,140 --> 01:22:09,925 at the warming hut at the top of Baldy 1491 01:22:09,968 --> 01:22:13,232 and I never looked at another woman since. 1492 01:22:15,017 --> 01:22:18,281 What do I love about him? I don't know, he's-- I've been with him 33 years, 1493 01:22:18,324 --> 01:22:21,110 I guess it's, it's just a part of my life. 1494 01:22:22,328 --> 01:22:23,677 What, what do I love about him? 1495 01:22:24,548 --> 01:22:27,464 [laughs] A lot, how's that? 1496 01:22:28,769 --> 01:22:32,730 [Warren] Here we are, years later, it's been a fun trip so far. 1497 01:22:37,604 --> 01:22:38,910 Saved me in every way. 1498 01:22:42,044 --> 01:22:44,176 [Andy] He was starting to discover 1499 01:22:44,220 --> 01:22:48,789 that there was life beyond working 20 hours a day. 1500 01:22:48,833 --> 01:22:52,532 He started to see that there were friendships 1501 01:22:52,576 --> 01:22:56,014 and love and things you could do 1502 01:22:56,058 --> 01:22:58,669 outside of the editing room. 1503 01:22:58,712 --> 01:23:01,541 You know, Warren always had to have some work going on. 1504 01:23:01,585 --> 01:23:03,543 He was always working on a book 1505 01:23:03,587 --> 01:23:07,591 or working at the Yellowstone Club 1506 01:23:07,634 --> 01:23:10,202 where they also created the nice life. 1507 01:23:10,246 --> 01:23:12,030 [Greg] The Yellowstone Club is probably 1508 01:23:12,074 --> 01:23:14,859 the most elite ski area in the world, 1509 01:23:14,902 --> 01:23:17,818 but Warren was one of the original ambassadors there. 1510 01:23:17,862 --> 01:23:19,168 I mean, it's the Warren Miller Lodge. 1511 01:23:20,169 --> 01:23:21,909 When I first showed up at the Yellowstone Club 1512 01:23:21,953 --> 01:23:23,824 I didn't know what I was supposed to do, 1513 01:23:23,868 --> 01:23:26,262 and they gave me a title of Director of Skiing. 1514 01:23:27,219 --> 01:23:30,222 [Brian] It, it makes sense that this Ski Bum, 1515 01:23:30,266 --> 01:23:34,009 would eventually be one of the instigators of what is 1516 01:23:34,052 --> 01:23:37,186 the most exclusive ski resort in the world, 1517 01:23:37,229 --> 01:23:39,144 and it's a perfect pay off. 1518 01:23:39,188 --> 01:23:41,625 [Andy] A lot of the other members at the Yellowstone Club 1519 01:23:41,668 --> 01:23:43,844 who were all multi-millionaires 1520 01:23:43,888 --> 01:23:45,585 started with nothing themselves 1521 01:23:45,629 --> 01:23:48,023 and ground out companies 1522 01:23:48,066 --> 01:23:50,982 and built companies out of their own hands. 1523 01:23:51,026 --> 01:23:53,680 And Warren totally related to that, 1524 01:23:53,724 --> 01:23:55,465 that was perfect for him. 1525 01:23:55,508 --> 01:23:57,206 [Greg] You know, they love to 1526 01:23:57,249 --> 01:23:58,990 introduce their kids to Warren Miller 1527 01:23:59,034 --> 01:24:00,905 and get an autograph from Warren Miller, 1528 01:24:00,948 --> 01:24:02,602 hang out in the Warren Miller Lodge. 1529 01:24:02,646 --> 01:24:06,128 They get to rub shoulders with the original Ski Bum. 1530 01:24:07,520 --> 01:24:10,523 I've heard all the stories. So it doesn't bother trying to wow me 1531 01:24:10,567 --> 01:24:12,525 with him like he used to. 1532 01:24:12,569 --> 01:24:15,398 But when you, when you have a table full of people, 1533 01:24:15,441 --> 01:24:19,837 he's-- he captivates them all and that's really fun. 1534 01:24:21,230 --> 01:24:23,058 [Chris] He rediscovered the fact that, 1535 01:24:23,101 --> 01:24:27,627 "Hey, I can choose a new career at 72 years old. 1536 01:24:27,671 --> 01:24:29,890 I don't have to keep doing it all." 1537 01:24:29,934 --> 01:24:34,373 For the first time he had seen that the last 50 or 60 years, 1538 01:24:34,417 --> 01:24:38,856 he had been just on the treadmill of a wonderful life, 1539 01:24:38,899 --> 01:24:42,077 but he didn't necessarily get to choose that. 1540 01:24:42,120 --> 01:24:44,166 And now he could choose what he wanted to do. 1541 01:24:45,167 --> 01:24:47,647 I remember him just like a little kid going, "Huh! 1542 01:24:48,779 --> 01:24:50,433 I can do whatever I want now." 1543 01:24:52,957 --> 01:24:55,699 What I appreciate is a lot of times when men retire, 1544 01:24:55,742 --> 01:24:58,484 they kind of go, "Okay, let's just play golf." 1545 01:24:59,920 --> 01:25:02,793 He's never gotten to a place where he said I'm done yet. 1546 01:25:04,055 --> 01:25:06,666 He had the opportunity up on Orcas 1547 01:25:06,710 --> 01:25:09,713 to build this world renowned skate park. 1548 01:25:10,801 --> 01:25:14,935 What Warren Miller found in promoting skateboarding, 1549 01:25:14,979 --> 01:25:17,329 was that rebel of kid. 1550 01:25:17,373 --> 01:25:18,591 That was him growing up. 1551 01:25:20,158 --> 01:25:23,292 So what he did is he created a skateboarder's ski resort, 1552 01:25:23,335 --> 01:25:24,989 basically the runs for skateboarders. 1553 01:25:27,383 --> 01:25:28,427 [door slamming] 1554 01:25:30,037 --> 01:25:32,431 [Mark] He showed up and he's like, "I'm looking for the dude, 1555 01:25:32,475 --> 01:25:36,653 the kid who builds skate parks, he sleeps in his car." 1556 01:25:36,696 --> 01:25:39,003 [slow music] 1557 01:25:40,178 --> 01:25:42,441 He was like, "I want you to build a skate park for me." 1558 01:25:43,529 --> 01:25:45,749 Well when I see something that 1559 01:25:45,792 --> 01:25:49,187 I think, "Wow, gosh, I wish I was that age and I'd be doing that." 1560 01:25:49,231 --> 01:25:52,930 [Mark] He would say, "We need to do something that matters 1561 01:25:52,973 --> 01:25:55,367 and we could make this bigger 1562 01:25:55,411 --> 01:25:59,632 than we ever even imagined possible in the beginning." 1563 01:25:59,676 --> 01:26:02,418 Not just the skate park on Orcas Island, 1564 01:26:02,461 --> 01:26:07,205 some for the kids to do, the best skate park in the world. 1565 01:26:07,249 --> 01:26:09,207 [Warren] Make the skateboard park so enjoyable, 1566 01:26:09,251 --> 01:26:10,730 they won't want to skate anywhere else. 1567 01:26:10,774 --> 01:26:13,255 And when did you say that's a tourism here? 1568 01:26:13,298 --> 01:26:16,475 No, they come-- people come from all over the world to skate at Orcas. 1569 01:26:16,519 --> 01:26:18,956 -They do. Wow. -Yep. 1570 01:26:18,999 --> 01:26:21,219 It's your fun for me to go over there and 1571 01:26:21,263 --> 01:26:23,569 -set up on that above the bowl... -[Mark] Yeah. 1572 01:26:23,613 --> 01:26:25,049 ...watch the kids do it. 1573 01:26:27,660 --> 01:26:32,970 Warren definitely has, uh, a good eye for... passion. 1574 01:26:33,013 --> 01:26:34,276 I think he can tell whether 1575 01:26:34,319 --> 01:26:35,929 you're really into what you're doing 1576 01:26:35,973 --> 01:26:38,671 or if you're, you know, just trying to fake it. 1577 01:26:39,846 --> 01:26:42,284 [Warren] You guys were all sleeping in your cars? 1578 01:26:42,327 --> 01:26:44,764 Yeah, well, I'm still sleeping in my car. 1579 01:26:44,808 --> 01:26:47,071 -Okay, keep it up. That's the way you-- -Yeah, I will. 1580 01:26:47,114 --> 01:26:48,246 Someday you will... 1581 01:26:49,334 --> 01:26:50,944 Please get a pillow for your car. 1582 01:26:50,988 --> 01:26:51,989 Yeah. 1583 01:26:52,032 --> 01:26:54,252 [slow music] 1584 01:26:57,777 --> 01:26:59,910 [Chris] One of my favorite quotes of all time 1585 01:26:59,953 --> 01:27:02,129 is on the poster of the opening day. 1586 01:27:03,000 --> 01:27:07,047 [Warren] This says very simply, "There's no limit to the amount of good a person can do, 1587 01:27:07,091 --> 01:27:08,919 if they don't care who gets the credit." 1588 01:27:09,963 --> 01:27:12,618 It's about July 4th, 2002, 1589 01:27:12,662 --> 01:27:15,708 simply stated that is what this park is all about. 1590 01:27:17,188 --> 01:27:20,322 [Chris] He never wanted his name... used. 1591 01:27:20,365 --> 01:27:23,325 And he said it was because a community built this. 1592 01:27:24,326 --> 01:27:27,154 Everyone was a part of what happened, not just one person. 1593 01:27:31,768 --> 01:27:34,205 Whether you're surfing or you're skiing 1594 01:27:34,249 --> 01:27:36,425 or you're driving, it's freeing your mind. 1595 01:27:37,513 --> 01:27:40,298 [slow music] 1596 01:27:40,342 --> 01:27:44,302 And that was what he longed for as a child, 1597 01:27:44,346 --> 01:27:48,132 and he did find that missing piece of his childhood. 1598 01:27:53,093 --> 01:27:55,313 I did have a thought as a kid that 1599 01:27:55,357 --> 01:27:58,925 I wanted him to be more like all the other fathers. 1600 01:27:58,969 --> 01:28:03,365 Home for dinner, going to their dance recitals and all 1601 01:28:03,408 --> 01:28:08,631 and I'd see that and think, "What's-- why don't we have that?" 1602 01:28:10,850 --> 01:28:14,767 I missed out on having my dad a lot of my childhood. 1603 01:28:16,987 --> 01:28:19,859 [symphony music] 1604 01:28:34,526 --> 01:28:35,527 [audience chuckling] 1605 01:28:50,194 --> 01:28:53,850 [audience clapping] 1606 01:28:54,851 --> 01:28:58,594 [Chris] At that moment I think all my childhood concerns were gone. 1607 01:28:59,899 --> 01:29:02,249 That it wasn't like he was going away. 1608 01:29:02,293 --> 01:29:04,208 He was coming back with something. 1609 01:29:04,251 --> 01:29:06,384 Kind of, maybe that was like a little boy. 1610 01:29:06,428 --> 01:29:07,820 "Hey, Mom, look what have done, 1611 01:29:07,864 --> 01:29:10,345 look at the beautiful things I found, 1612 01:29:10,388 --> 01:29:13,086 please pay attention, see it!" 1613 01:29:13,130 --> 01:29:14,436 [audience applauding] 1614 01:29:14,479 --> 01:29:16,351 My dad's 92 years old. 1615 01:29:17,395 --> 01:29:20,137 He's still looking for the love of his father. 1616 01:29:23,009 --> 01:29:24,837 Maybe we're all better off for it 1617 01:29:24,881 --> 01:29:28,319 even though he may have suffered not having that love 1618 01:29:28,363 --> 01:29:31,409 because we all got what he started to share with us. 1619 01:29:31,453 --> 01:29:33,933 I believe my father's name has done more 1620 01:29:33,977 --> 01:29:35,500 for the sport of skiing than anything else. 1621 01:29:36,632 --> 01:29:40,418 [Dan] He took dreams of adventure, packaged it up 1622 01:29:40,462 --> 01:29:42,812 and brought it to a neighborhood near you. 1623 01:29:42,855 --> 01:29:44,161 I-- You know if I could say one thing about Warren 1624 01:29:44,204 --> 01:29:46,032 is that, is how grateful I am 1625 01:29:46,076 --> 01:29:48,818 for what he's done for everybody. 1626 01:29:48,861 --> 01:29:52,256 I love Warren Miller... he's my guy. 1627 01:29:52,299 --> 01:29:59,437 Thank you for... what you brought to my life. 1628 01:29:59,481 --> 01:30:02,484 [Andy] I re-live all the time we spent together 1629 01:30:02,527 --> 01:30:04,790 and, uh, I still listen to 1630 01:30:04,834 --> 01:30:07,402 your messages on voicemail to this day. 1631 01:30:09,316 --> 01:30:14,104 I get you, I get what your passion is, 1632 01:30:14,147 --> 01:30:16,976 I get what you're trying to share with people. 1633 01:30:18,151 --> 01:30:22,199 I feel the same way and, uh, thank you. 1634 01:30:25,985 --> 01:30:27,596 You changed my life. 1635 01:30:27,639 --> 01:30:28,510 I love you. 1636 01:30:30,337 --> 01:30:31,817 You did stuff that no one else could. 1637 01:30:33,863 --> 01:30:36,692 [Dan] When you build something you want it to last. 1638 01:30:36,735 --> 01:30:39,912 If you build anything in life that's worth it, 1639 01:30:39,956 --> 01:30:41,610 it will stand the test of time. 1640 01:30:42,698 --> 01:30:46,005 And Warren Miller Films has stood the test of time. 1641 01:30:47,442 --> 01:30:51,141 Well, that's kind of, that's kind of my life story 1642 01:30:51,184 --> 01:30:54,100 and I hope to see you next year, same time, same place, 1643 01:30:54,144 --> 01:30:55,058 thank you. 1644 01:30:55,101 --> 01:30:58,017 [slow music] 1645 01:31:32,008 --> 01:31:34,532 [upbeat music] 1646 01:31:44,411 --> 01:31:46,109 [crowd cheering] 1647 01:31:46,152 --> 01:31:50,287 Welcome all to Warren Miller's 68th annual feature film. 1648 01:31:50,330 --> 01:31:53,203 It's like as close a skier gets to be like or a real rush. 1649 01:31:55,292 --> 01:31:56,641 [interviewer] 1100 people. 1650 01:31:56,685 --> 01:32:00,123 1100 people? That's awesome, 1100 people? 1651 01:32:00,166 --> 01:32:03,866 -[audience cheering] -So I just always wanted you [mumbles] 1652 01:32:03,909 --> 01:32:07,957 huge applause for warren Miller himself. 1653 01:32:08,000 --> 01:32:09,654 For starting this year. 1654 01:32:09,698 --> 01:32:13,440 [audience cheering] 1655 01:32:13,484 --> 01:32:15,399 Thank you! 1656 01:32:15,442 --> 01:32:19,272 ♪ Turn your magic on to me she'd say ♪ 1657 01:32:20,230 --> 01:32:23,233 ♪ Everything you want's a dream away ♪ 1658 01:32:24,234 --> 01:32:28,586 ♪ We are legends, every day 1659 01:32:28,630 --> 01:32:30,066 ♪ That's what she told him 1660 01:32:32,634 --> 01:32:36,376 ♪ Turn your magic on to me she'd say ♪ 1661 01:32:37,421 --> 01:32:40,293 ♪ Everything you want's a dream away ♪ 1662 01:32:41,381 --> 01:32:44,820 ♪ Under this pressure under this weight ♪ 1663 01:32:45,734 --> 01:32:50,303 ♪ We are diamonds I feel my heart beating ♪ 1664 01:32:51,304 --> 01:32:55,395 ♪ I feel my heart beneath my skin ♪ 1665 01:32:55,439 --> 01:32:58,877 ♪ I feel my heart beating 1666 01:32:59,791 --> 01:33:03,621 ♪ You make me feel 1667 01:33:03,665 --> 01:33:06,058 ♪ Like I'm alive again 1668 01:33:12,804 --> 01:33:14,371 ♪ Alive again 1669 01:33:17,200 --> 01:33:19,419 ♪ Oh, you make me feel 1670 01:33:20,769 --> 01:33:23,075 ♪ Like I'm alive again 1671 01:33:23,989 --> 01:33:27,906 ♪ Said I can't go on not in this way ♪ 1672 01:33:28,820 --> 01:33:32,563 ♪ I'm a dream I die by light of day ♪ 1673 01:33:32,607 --> 01:33:36,959 ♪ Going to hold up half the sky and say ♪ 1674 01:33:37,002 --> 01:33:38,438 ♪ Only I own me 1675 01:33:38,482 --> 01:33:41,485 ♪ I feel my heart beating 1676 01:33:43,487 --> 01:33:47,273 -[man] Okay, we are going into a big wrap up. So, uh...-[Warren] Right. 1677 01:33:47,317 --> 01:33:51,364 -...it's time to slide into your one-on-one, uh, mode here.-[Warren] Okay. 1678 01:33:54,541 --> 01:33:56,326 I've been a very lucky person. 1679 01:33:56,369 --> 01:33:58,807 I was part of the good old days of skiing on seven foot 1680 01:33:58,850 --> 01:34:01,679 six inch skis wearing soft leather boots. 1681 01:34:01,723 --> 01:34:03,725 And I've shared many of the adrenaline rushes 1682 01:34:03,768 --> 01:34:05,814 that I've experienced in 50 years of skiing 1683 01:34:05,857 --> 01:34:08,164 and filming all over the world. 1684 01:34:08,207 --> 01:34:12,647 Now it's your turn to rush out and find some for yourself. 1685 01:34:12,690 --> 01:34:14,779 I'm Warren Miller and I hope to see you next year, 1686 01:34:14,823 --> 01:34:17,477 same time, same place. 1687 01:34:17,521 --> 01:34:19,349 Thank you and good night. 1688 01:34:20,263 --> 01:34:21,220 [man] Right on.