Harry “Heinie” Cooper and June Preisser get ready to ride their ski-bikes down the MGM slopes. A still from the studio’s 1939 “specialty,” the short “Ski-Birds.” Let it snow!

Here’s the snipe: ON TWO BICYCLES BUILT FOR SKIING… Heinie Cooper, champion skier, and June Preisser, young Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer actress, are all set for a ride through the snow on their snow-bikes, one of the skiing novelities pictured in Pete Smith’s latest Specialty, “Ski-Birds.” Charles Trego directed.