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The Changing Hills
Title:
The Changing Hills
NFSA ID
13324
Year
1961
In this short excerpt from an Australian Commonwealth Film Unit documentary, the narrator notes the dramatic changes in the alpine regions of Australia.
He quotes from Banjo Paterson's poem 'The Man from Snowy River', which is in stark contrast to the European yodelling and harp playing in the chalet.
When post-Second World War migrants arrived from Europe in the 1940s and 50s to work on the Snowy Mountain Scheme, they brought with them centuries-old traditions that have transformed how Australians experience the snowfields as a tourist destination.
The harp player and singer is Fritz Feirsinger who managed the Man from Snowy River Hotel in its first year 1961. The following year he and his wife Margo built and ran the Marritz Lodge.
Collection
Film Australia
Production company
Australian Commonwealth Film Unit
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.