OTTO LANG (Hollywood): How Skiing has come to America

A Film by Gerald Lehner (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation - ORF): OTTO LANG, an American originally hailing from Salzburg, Austria, used to work as a ski instructor in the Arlberg region. In 1937 his work took him to Mount Rainier in the Pacific Northwest and Sun Valley in Idaho where he became a ski instructor to the rich and famous. This background led to a career as a film producer and director in Hollywood. The “Landesstudio Salzburg“ of Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) produced a documentary about Otto Lang, when, by chance, journalist and author GERALD LEHNER also of Salzburg, Austria, met Lang near Seattle and asked him for an interview. Lang was then almost 95-years-old. In the U.S. Lang is revered as a filmmaker, producer, author and pioneer of skiing. Many Europeans are unaware that he was also the director of the TV show DAKTARI, which delighted millions. Lang produced the first film about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and worked at 20th Century Fox with actors