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Hot Hickory : Featuring the Skiing of Ernie McCulloch

Accession number: 
1954.0025

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Production Years: 
1954
Release Year: 
  • 1953 (Canadian Film Awards)

Languages:

  • English
Film Properties: 
  • 16mm
  • Colour
  • Sound
Length (feet): 
400
Length (minutes): 
12

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Holding Institutions: 

Library and Archives Canada: 16mm, VHS, Digibeta.
"A documentary demonstrating the skiing techniques and achievements of Ernie McCulloch, renowned Canadian downhill skiier. The documentary opens with the line "Hot Hickory laced to the dancing feet of Ernie McCulloch". Featuring the Ernie McCulloch Quartet in Chase Me Charlie."

"The picturesque blue and white of the Laurentians, photographed to maximum effect, provide a winter-wonderland background for outstanding Canadian alpine skier Ernie McCulloch as he gives an exhibition of the dexterity that has won him numerous trophies in Canada, the United States and other countries."

Bibliography: 

Canadian Travel and Wildlife Films Catalogue and Directory of Sources (1963), 7.

Walter Herbert, "The Canadian Film Awards," Film News 13, no. 5 (1953): 4.

"Non-Theatrical, Open. First Award: ANGOTEE (Eskimo boy) National Film Board of Canada. Honorable Mention: THE SON, National Film Board of Canada . . . ROMANCE OF TRANSPORTATION, National Film Board of Canada . . . THE POWER WITHIN, Crawley Films for the Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada . . . HOT HICKORY, Ashley Crippen Ltd. . . . MAGIC OF THE TROPICS, Dr. S. Copeland."