Snowy Hydro – Where Men and Mountains Meet
Clip 3: All the Snowy’s People
2 min 59 sec
Taken from the sponsored film Snowy Hydro – Where Men and Mountains Meet (1963)
Original title classification not rated – this clip chosen to be PG
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Curator’s clip description
The sequence shows the domestic settlements and the worksites of the Snowy Mountains Scheme in co-existence.
Curator’s notes
This sequence, filmed in the Snowy Mountains in the late 1950s and early 1960s, explains the interdependent relationship between the influx of residents into the new towns and workers’ camps of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, and the construction work itself. The brute force and disruption of construction and development are the necessary evils for the establishment of domestic calm and economic prosperity in the new-look Snowy Mountains.
Adrienne Parr, curator
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