Most Recent Interviews
Our upcoming documentary project focuses on recreational kayaking's big change years: 1950's through 1980's. What paddling was like, and what the big moments led to the most dramatic changes in paddlesport. We strive to capture the fun, and the spirit of exploration and entrepreneurship.
A SAMPLE OF OTHER FOOTAGE OBTAINED TO DATE:
1952 Fibark races
1973 River Chaser Kayak Television Advertisement
1945 Summer Camp trip to Canada
1934? British Expedition to Greenland Kayakers (lessons on rolling, throwing harpoon, etc)
1940’s British training Films
1945 Canoe Demonstration (amazing)
1969 Film Kayak
1978 Video Wet Tennies
1972 Olympic Games
VIDEO INTERVIEWS Done to date:
Bob Harrigan, Ed Gertler, Bill Endicott, Wick Walker, Jamie McEwan, Jimmy Snyder
Lawrence Campton 1953 Fibark winner
Art Vitarelli 1970? Fibark Winner
Erich Seidel German emigrant early fibark winner
Chuck Stanley California Explorer
Tom Johnson First plastic kayak
Payson Kennedy Founder NOC
Doug Woodward Deliverance Advisor, Early Explorer post Baltimore
Bunny Johns Early SE Explorer
Jimmy Holcombe Southeast explorer
John Burton New England racer, 1972 Olympic Team
Will Leverett writing book on Southeast history, mom was early Nantahala explorer
Allen Stancil First Perception Employee, boat shaper 30 years
Bill Masters Founder Perception Kayaks
Joe Pulliam Dagger kayaks founder
Steve Scarboro Dagger canoe/kayak designer
Fritz Orr family ran summer camps in 1940s
Alice Chalmers early SE explorer
Frank Bell Jr. Father was summer camp pioneer in SE