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Snowy, The - A Dream of Growing Up

Documents Australia's largest construction project.
Year : 1989 | Total Duration : 60 Minutes |
Director : Stephen Ramsey |
Exterior Police Station with white fence and gate at footpath. Policeman in full uniform including hat comes from door of station and sets out on his beat. Elderly woman on side of kerb wanting to cross road but looking anxious and needing help. Good MS of woman in hat and pearls. Good truck shots and busy 1940's traffic scenes. Policeman stops traffic with exaggerated hand signal to allow old lady to cross road and to sound effects of a car crash
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Access No. 124427 | 46 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Archival beach scenes, children and adults in surf on rubber floats and playing in shallows
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Access No. 124428 | 37 secs | 1940s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Labor Prime Minister Ben Chifley smoking pipe at a meeting of State and Federal politicians gathered for to establish a national plan to create the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority . Seated around an oval table
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Access No. 124429 | 7 secs | 1940s | Canberra, ACT, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Pedestrians crossing street, traffic and general street scenes Line of workers, one in overalls file past bundy clock. CU of brick house and high angle shot of FJ Holden on bend of country road
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Access No. 124430 | 16 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | Colour |
Interior of Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority. Tumut 2 underground power station
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Access No. 124438 | 2 secs | 1940s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
CU of baby in pram with Australian flag in hand. MS of line of mothers holding babies
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Access No. 124439 | 17 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | Colour |
Horses crossing river, Snowy River cafe. Still of the International Club with women in national dress holding signs with country names - Estonia. Droving team through river. Sea Cadets using flags in display. CU on dials and switches
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Access No. 124440 | 45 secs | 1950s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
WS of Snowy Mountains Scheme with row of white pipes leading into river
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Access No. 124442 | 3 secs | 1940s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interior Snowy Mountains Scheme. Tumut 2 underground power station. Huge spray of water from pipes over dam. Aircraft flies low over valley. Aerial of construction of Snowy Mountains Scheme. Aerial of lake.
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Access No. 124443 | 31 secs | 1940s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Dead horse in drought conditions and bones or carcass of dead animal
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Access No. 124444 | 7 secs | 1950s | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Sheep grazing on edge of river and irrigation canals between crop
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Access No. 124445 | 6 secs | 1950s | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Various maps of Snowy Mountains Scheme
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Access No. 124446 | 20 secs | 1950s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Opening Ceremony of Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme in 1949. Ben Chifley. Band playing Advance Australia Fair. Pan across crowd. MS William Hudson, Commissioner of Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme. Stills
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Access No. 124447 | 1 min 15 secs | 1940s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | B&W |
Robert Menzies with group of men at opening of dam
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Access No. 124448 | 4 secs | 1940s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Ben Chifley and row of men, politicians and officials on stage with bunting or flags flying. Opening ceremony of Snowy Mountains Scheme. MS of William Hudson, Commissioner of the scheme. 1949
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Access No. 124449 | 13 secs | 1940s | Snowy Mountains , NSW, Australia | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | B&W |
Interview with William Hudson, Commissioner of Snowy Mountains Scheme
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Access No. 124451 | 9 secs | 1980s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Pioneer tourist bus with tourists alighting visit Snowy Mountains Scheme. VS of tour of the power plant. CU of pointer on a relief map of the scheme
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Access No. 124452 | 20 secs | 1950s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Chemist shop on corner of country town, streets scenes, pedestrians
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Access No. 124453 | 10 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Interview with Roy Robinson, engineer with Snowy Mountains Scheme
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Access No. 124455 | 10 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival. High angle shot of crowd of displaced people in Germany. People lining up to register for employment and refugees walking along streets with their possessions.
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Access No. 124457 | 16 secs | 1940s | Germany | © NFSA | B&W |
Steam train through valley in countryside with country town in B/G
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Access No. 124458 | 16 secs | 1950s | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Interview with Herb Schmidtke about his first impressions of Australia
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Access No. 124459 | 15 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival stills of Stephanie Starkoff and interview with her about the cold conditions on arrival
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Access No. 124460 | 32 secs | 1940s | Snowy Mountains | © NFSA | B&W |
Party of Norwegians singing, playing ukulele , migrants to Australia to work on Snowy Mountains Scheme
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Access No. 124461 | 21 secs | 1940s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Diamond drillers working on Snowy Mountains Scheme, German surveyors, working. Living in tiny huts
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Access No. 124462 | 22 secs | 1940s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | B&W |
WS of orange coloured plane over Snowy Mountains. CU on supplies being dropped by parachute.
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Access No. 124463 | 9 secs | 1950s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Interview with Frank Rodwell and Jean Hegewald about working conditions at Snowy Mountains Scheme
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Access No. 124464 | 40 secs | 1980s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU on boots walking on snow then hanging out washing on Hills hoist clothes line in snow . Unusual footage
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Access No. 124465 | 25 secs | 1950s | Snowy Mountains, NSW. Australia | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
B&W Stills of street scene in Cooma with road grader in main street. B& W still of high school class photograph in 1951.
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Access No. 124467 | 20 secs | 1950s | Cooma, NSW, Australia | © Ian Mould | B&W |
Interview with Ian Mould about Cooma in days of construction of Snowy Mountains Scheme. Interview with Rod Bridges about the impact of migrant labour. Interview with Boyd Mould eating habits of migrant labour. Interview with Franco Molinari B&W still of migrant group of men.
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Access No. 124468 | 2 mins | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
Workman's huts in Snowy Mountains Scheme. B&W still of two woman drinking, smoking with many glasses on beer on table in front of them
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Access No. 124470 | 16 secs | 1950s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | B&W |
Interview with Jean Hegewald about class distinction amongst workers in Snowy Mountains Scheme. Interview with Frank Rodwell.
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Access No. 124472 | 20 secs | 1980s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
B&W still of canteen in Snowy Mountains Scheme and woman carrying a meal tray. Men in hard hats eating. Men playing darts.
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Access No. 124473 | 13 secs | 1950s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Large boat called New Australia. Migrants down gangplank leaving boat. Barracks where the migrants lived on arriving to Australia
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Access No. 124475 | 23 secs | 1950s | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Interview with Frank Rodwell about housing for migrant workers on Snowy Mountains Scheme
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Access No. 124476 | 18 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
Marching girls, young sea cadets practising gun drill, military band on beach, life saving carnival march past, lifesavers drilling young boys in parade stance, standing tall with chests expanded, school band, All scenes used as examples of regimentation in society in 1950's
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Access No. 124477 | 29 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | B&W |
Good shots of a country dance with old man playing piano and band playing. Couples on dance floor. Interview with Jean Hegewald about dances. Interview with Franco Molinari B&W still of group of men and woman. Interview with Rod Bridges
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Access No. 124478 | 1 min 32 secs | 1950s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Drama segment about non-English speaking migrants Commentary Òforeigners, you'd think they'd learn to talk EnglishÓ
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Access No. 124479 | 12 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | B&W |
Interview with Stephanie Stajkoff about not being able to speak English when they first arrived
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Access No. 124480 | 17 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
Sign post ÒNo.2 dam SiteÓ. Robert Menzies opening Guthega Dam, 1955. VS of Snowy Mountains Scheme at work. Construction of Adaminaby Dam by NSW Dept of Public Works.
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Access No. 124481 | 1 min 20 secs | 1950s | Adaminaby, Guthega, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Carpenters constructing timber housing quarters for workers at Snowy Mountains Scheme
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Access No. 124482 | 13 secs | 1950s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Interview with Luciano Notte about easy working conditions hours on the Snowy Mountains Scheme. Interview with Franco Molinari about being told to limit his construction to one room a day and not working too fast. Jack Robertson, Òeverything was a bludgeÓ. Òeverything was a racketÓ
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Access No. 124483 | 1 min 23 secs | 1980s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan around an office environment. B&W still of workers having ÒsmokoÓ or rest.
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Access No. 124484 | 20 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | B&W |
CU on boiling billy cans of tea over campfire. Man looks up with full beard.
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Access No. 124485 | 7 secs | 1950s | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Dance, CU on feet twirling around dance floor, foot steps along pavement, workers boots. Shot represents a workers strike, workers in hard hats march. B&W still of newspaper headline. America gets $25 mill job referring to American gaining contact for Snowy Mountains Scheme
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Access No. 124486 | 20 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | B&W |
CU of road grader and excavation work of Snowy Mountains Scheme. Kaiser machinery. American Kaiser group revolutionised work practices on construction site of Snowy Mountains Scheme
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Access No. 124487 | 28 secs | 1950s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Interview with Curly Christman, contractor for excavation on Snowy Mountains Scheme. B&W still of him in 1950's. Men working on steel stanchions. Union activity on construction site. Interview with Snowy Engineer, Aubrey Hoskings
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Access No. 124488 | 1 min 45 secs | 1950s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Workers in hard hats and building o f the tunnels, Graphics showing tunnels. Men being transported in trolley cars or wagons into tunnel. POV of men in wagons as they go into tunnel. Dark CUs on shiny faces of workmen in hard hats. Wagon train of rock from inside tunnel
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Access No. 124489 | 1 min 2 secs | 1950s | Snowy Mountains | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Interview with Ken White about the construction of the tunnels in the Snowy Mountains Scheme and what it was like to work in the tunnels
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Access No. 124490 | 11 secs | 1980s | Snowy Mountains | © NFSA | Colour |
Construction of tunnels in Snowy Mountain Scheme. CU on worker in hard hat Hot shiny dirty face. Underground drilling into rock, Using explosive to blow out rock wall. Men with fingers in ears for protection against noise of explosion Using mucker to scoop up rubble. B&W stills of workers
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Access No. 124491 | 29 secs | 1950s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Interview with Col Purcil. VS of people listening to radio, workers playing cards and board games,
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Access No. 124492 | 34 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview with Eva Grunssen and Stephanie Stajkoff about the different food eaten by migrant workers during construction of Snowy Mountains Scheme
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Access No. 124493 | 41 secs | 1980s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Lions being fed at the zoo with large pieces of raw meat. Tourists in 1950's fashions.
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Access No. 124494 | 41 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview with Luciano Notte and Franco Molinari about the food eaten when working on the construction of the Snowy Mountains Scheme
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Access No. 124510 | 20 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan across a B&W still of group of men as European migrant workers. Zoom in on B&W still of country town with terrace style housing, cars parked at angle to kerb and four women on street
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Access No. 124511 | 23 secs | 1950s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
MS of two old women in small hats and glasses
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Access No. 124512 | 3 secs | 1950s | © ABC | B&W |
Interview with Stephanie Stajkoff about the clothes worn by the migrant women workers on the Snowy Mountain Scheme
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Access No. 124513 | 9 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage of rock and roll l dancers on dance floor being watched by audience of young people.
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Access No. 124514 | 19 secs | 1950s | © ABC | B&W |
Road grader at work and other earth moving machinery, called tournapulls or widow makers, men in hard hats and working in tunnels on construction site of Snowy Mountains Scheme. VS of damaged machinery from accidents on site
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Access No. 124515 | 44 secs | 1980s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Interview with Ex-Cooma Policeman, Pat O'Dea about accidents on construction site of Snowy Mountains Scheme
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Access No. 124516 | 47 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage of speech by William Hudson and cartoon about work safety practices.
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Access No. 124517 | 20 secs | 1950s | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | B&W |
Interview with Ulick O'Boyle , first aid officer on Snowy Mountain Scheme during construction and interview with Herb Schmidtke about safety issues and accidents.
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Access No. 124518 | 52 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
CU on drilling in rock face with mechanical drill, Miners drilling into rock.
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Access No. 124519 | 17 secs | 1950s | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme | Colour |
Interview with Ulick O'Boyle about the pressure of work on site of the construction of Snowy Mountain Scheme
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Access No. 124520 | 1 min 5 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
VS of grave sites at cemetery
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Access No. 124521 | 13 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
VS earth moving equipment, road graders, construction site, laying concrete.
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Access No. 124522 | 25 secs | 1980s | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
B&W archival still , pan down still showing concreting done at construction of Snowy Mountains Scheme. Second still showing workers at bottom of concrete construction and third still of tunnel and workers
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Access No. 124523 | 20 secs | 1950s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Interview with Ken White
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Access No. 124527 | 3 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W still of tunnel in Snowy Mountain Scheme
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Access No. 124528 | 4 secs | 1950s | Snowy Mountains | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Shot of worker in hard hats in tunnel construction of Snowy Mountains Scheme
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Access No. 124529 | 6 secs | 1950s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Interview Ken White
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Access No. 124530 | 5 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W still of formwork in tunnel construction o Snowy Mountains Scheme. CU on hatch door
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Access No. 124531 | 7 secs | 1950s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
CU on mixing gravel and concrete in underground tunnel with small light bulb for light.
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Access No. 124532 | 8 secs | 1950s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Interview Ken White about people who lost their lives working on the construction of Snowy Mountains Scheme
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Access No. 124533 | 44 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
Cemetery, wind blowing, CU of headstones and graves
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Access No. 124534 | 13 secs | 1980s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS of work safety posters
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Access No. 124535 | 7 secs | 1950s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS of water swirling around foreshore of Adaminaby Lake.
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Access No. 124536 | 12 secs | 1980s | Adaminaby, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W horse drawn buggy along a country road. Good shot.
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Access No. 124537 | 5 secs | 1940s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Two stockmen through river crossing with horse drawn wagon of supplies. Snow capped mountains in B/G. CU on wagon wheel in water. WS of lake and buggy on edge.
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Access No. 124538 | 9 secs | 1950s | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Workers in yellow raincoats and yellow hard hats laughing and smiling after explosion in tunnel because their hats blow off.
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Access No. 124553 | 3 secs | 1950s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Workers shaking hands and holding sign ÒWelcome to EucumbeneÓ. B&W photographs, stills of workers. CU of blackboards with record times for tunnelling.
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Access No. 124554 | 20 secs | 1950s | Snowy Mountains | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Poster of Dam Busters movie
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Access No. 124555 | 4 secs | 1950s | © Filmworld | Colour |
Man talking on two way radio in control room. CU on radio speaker. Aeroplane sequence to commentary Hop Harrigan. Workmen on Snowy Mountains Scheme receiving mail which has been delivered by plane
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Access No. 124556 | 41 secs | 1950s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
People dancing on cruise ship stop to listen to Queen Elizabeth II speech on the radio. CU of people listening intently. Cars arriving at drive-in. Schoolchildren and VS of royal tour. Physical education display. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh reads church service.
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Access No. 124557 | 1 min 59 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | Colour |
Entrance to tunnel on Snowy Mountains Scheme with two men in hard hats walking up to black board with shifts named as Graveyard Shift, Day Shift etc.
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Access No. 124558 | 14 secs | 1950s | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Interview with Herb Schmidtke about increased pressure on workers from American Kaiser Group in construction of Snowy mountains Scheme. CU of blackboard. Interview with Willy the Whip, Iman Viesis.
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Access No. 124559 | 31 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
Trees submerged. WS of catchment area above township of Adaminaby flooded for the Snowy Mountains Scheme. CU on road sign attached to tree which is mostly underwater
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Access No. 124560 | 6 secs | 1950s | Adaminaby, NSW, Australia | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Snow on branch of tree, snow falling, grazing sheep in snow, CU of cattle covered in snow,horses in snow.
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Access No. 124561 | 20 secs | 1950s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Flock of sheep along country road past house with old town in B/G. man on horse pulling a horse drawn covered cart along dirt road with flock of sheep ahead.
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Access No. 124562 | 9 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | Colour |
Jacking up houses to be moved by truck.
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Access No. 124563 | 6 secs | 1950s | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
MS of plainly dressed woman with concerned look on her face. Wearing glasses.
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Access No. 124564 | 1 sec | 1950s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Moving a timber house on a truck. MS of older couple watching from behind a fence. WS of country road with truck hauling a complete house on the back of the truck.
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Access No. 124565 | 21 secs | 1950s | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Interview with Leigh Stewart and scenes of Adaminaby township. Pan around interior of general store to old white haired man behind the counter. . Interview with Leo Stewart, storekeeper.
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Access No. 124566 | 41 secs | 1980s | Adaminaby, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W still of Stewart's general store and main street of Adaminaby in 1800's
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Access No. 124567 | 12 secs | 1950s | Adaminaby, NSW, Australia | © Stewart Family | B&W |
Interview with Leo Stewart and pan around interior of general store in Adaminaby
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Access No. 124568 | 22 secs | 1980s | Adaminaby, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS of old town of Adaminaby
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Access No. 124569 | 15 secs | 1950s | Adaminaby, NSW, Australia | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Interview with Nita Stewart, daughter of the owner of the general store in Adaminaby recalls life in the old town.
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Access No. 124570 | 44 secs | 1980s | Adaminaby, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Gardening sequence about a garden competition arranged by Snowy Mountains Authority. CU of cabbage, CU of large carrots, onions, elderly woman show her garden to the male judges, flowers in concrete pots. CU of flowering gardens
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Access No. 124571 | 29 secs | 1950s | Snowy Mountains | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Interview with Leigh Stewart, son of the owner of the general store in Adaminaby comparing old and new towns of Adaminaby
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Access No. 124572 | 16 secs | 1950s | Adaminaby, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Cinesound segment on Adaminaby Dam with water skiers on dam
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Access No. 124573 | 24 secs | 1950s | Adaminaby, NSW, Australia | © Film World | B&W |
Archival B&W footage of union strike march
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Access No. 124574 | 11 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | B&W |
VS of manufacturing factories for consumer good such as refrigerators, television sets, automobile cars, full employment
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Access No. 124575 | 15 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | Colour |
Snowy Mountains workers in singlets and check shirts, labourers on construction site. workers in hard hats, using jack hammers
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Access No. 124576 | 13 secs | 1950s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Colour photographs of Charlie Oliver, Australian Workers Union (AWU). His voice states the American Kaiser Group were Ògood operatorsÓ . Changed work practices. VS of American workers in hard hats on Snowy Mountains Scheme
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Access No. 124577 | 22 secs | 1950s | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Interview with Aubrey Hoskings, about the lack of union representation on the construction site of the Snowy Mountains Scheme because the union was working with the American Kaiser group (employers)
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Access No. 124578 | 28 secs | 1980s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS of Royal Easter Show, Grand Parade in main showground. Agricultural display of farm produce. Laughing clowns, Ferris wheel , rope trick in sideshow alley, girls eating fairy floss, CU on prize winning bull, CU on farmer in hat and wearing hearing aid. HAS horse drawn buggy in parade, another buggy being pulled by Shetland pony.
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Access No. 124581 | 50 secs | 1950s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © ABC | B&W |
Archival shots of screaming teenagers at a concert, boys with drumsticks, couple dancing rock and roll, segment of the children's radio program, The Argonauts, featuring John Ewing
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Access No. 124582 | 37 secs | 1950s | © ABC | B&W |
Archival CU of surfer about how he blondes his hair, surfing shots
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Access No. 124583 | 29 secs | 1950s | © ABC | B&W |
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at top of stairs to plane - arrival in 1963. Presentation on tarmac. Shakes hands with Prime Minister Robert Menzies. Alighting from black Bentley car and shaking hands with Robert Menzies. Walking past public who are taking photographs. Prince Phillip in hard hat at opening of power station, Queen in white raincoat and hard hat inspecting tunnels
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Access No. 124584 | 25 secs | 1960s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Snowy Mountains worker climbing steep hill to makeshift camp and CU on hands counting out piles of money notes. Segment about the Snowy Mountains Scheme workers earning three times the national average. B&W photographs stills of man with beer in hand and dance hall.
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Access No. 124585 | 15 secs | 1960s | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Neon signs of nightclubs
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Access No. 124586 | 8 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview with Ken White
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Access No. 124587 | 2 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W photograph or still of Commonwealth Bank sign and pull back to show a timber and canvas temporary building which was the bank in the Snowy Mountains Scheme. Unusual footage
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Access No. 124588 | 8 secs | 1950s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | B&W |
Interview with Ken White about gambling and alcohol drinking on the construction of the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
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Access No. 124589 | 32 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B& W photograph of prostitutes working during the construction of the Snowy Mountain Scheme
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Access No. 124590 | 8 secs | 1950s | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | B&W |
Interview with Jean Hedgewald talking about the prostitutes working on he construction site of the Snowy Mountains Scheme. Interview with Pat O'Dea, Herb Scmidtke and Ken White.
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Access No. 124592 | 1 min 8 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of migrant men one playing piano accordion and whistling. Others having picnic. Commentary Ò New Australians and old Australians got together to enjoy themselves to share the brightness of an Australian picnicÓ
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Access No. 124593 | 14 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | B&W |
Interview with Ulick O'Boyle about the mix of nationalities working on the construction of Snowy Mountains Scheme. Interview with Col Purcil about the success of multiculturalism
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Access No. 124594 | 53 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W segment from feature film with migrant woman talking about liking her new country
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Access No. 124595 | 24 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | B&W |
Archival B&W boys jumping over high jump, teacher writing on blackboard, MS of class with attentive boys and girls with hands clasped on their desks. One little girl has headband on. Teenagers outside a brick university campus sitting on brick wall and chatting. Good 1950's fashion
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Access No. 124596 | 11 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | B&W |
Man and woman lounging on directors or deck chair and banana chair. WS of backyard swimming pool in expensive upper class suburb
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Access No. 124597 | 4 secs | 1950s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS of young adults in formal attire on their way to a ball and serving themselves at a buffet dinner.
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Access No. 124598 | 6 secs | 1960s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W sex education class classic Òreproductive organsÓ. Woman with hat and net over her face and glasses. CU on woman's breasts bouncing. Denise Drysdale teaching Go Go dancing. Vietnam demonstration with burning US flag. Oz magazine front pages
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Access No. 124599 | 1 min 6 secs | 1960s | © ABC | B&W |
VS of Snowy Mountain Scheme in late 1960's. Aerial over rural farmland.
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Access No. 124600 | 12 secs | 1960s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Gough Whitlam speaking Italian at a press conference and doing a Greek dance
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Access No. 124601 | 23 secs | 1960s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
High aerial over Snowy Mountains Scheme and VS of dam walls. water spilling out of dam. Tilt up dam face
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Access No. 124602 | 21 secs | 1970s | Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Opening of Sydney Opera House. Flotilla of boats on Harbour. Military helicopters in fly over and Queen amongst crowd at Opera House. balloons being released. 1973
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Access No. 124603 | 21 secs | 1970s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview with Aubrey Hoskings about environmental impact of the construction of the Snowy Mountains Scheme
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Access No. 124604 | 55 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
VS of dams and spillways of Snowy Mountains Scheme. Pan of Snowy river and men planting trees and scrubs to save soil erosion. Men spreading hay on ground. Tourists on dam and woman asking Òis it drinkable as it is?Ó
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Access No. 124605 | 57 secs | 1970s | Snowy Mountains | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Archival B&W photograph of country town with cars parked and horse drawn carts.
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Access No. 124606 | 12 secs | 1940s | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | B&W |
WS suburban house with man in front yard
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Access No. 124607 | 5 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | Colour |
Migrants arriving on ship
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Access No. 124608 | 8 secs | 1960s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Men in drafting office with CAD drawing board
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Access No. 124609 | 3 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | Colour |
CU on television monitor and rows of television monitors in retail stores.
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Access No. 124610 | 3 secs | 1960s | © ABC | Colour |
WS ski resort
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Access No. 124611 | 4 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | Colour |
Exterior shot of Snowy Mountains Authority building
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Access No. 124612 | 8 secs | 1970s | Cooma , NSW, Australia | © Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority | Colour |
Reunion of 400 Snowy Mountains Scheme workers to honour retirement of Sir William Hudson. 1974. Hudson speech. Workers filing past a seated Sir William Hudson and shaking hands
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Access No. 124613 | 1 min 19 secs | 1970s | Cooma, NSW, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Interview with Aubrey Hoskings, Col Purcil, Pat O'Dea, Ulick O'Boyle
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Access No. 124614 | 1 min 25 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
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