https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/featured/image07-2018/nfsa_pres_lightblue_bird_0.png
TAGGED: alps
Collection
Skiing in Australian Snowfields

Does Australia really have more snow than Switzerland? For some people it comes as a surprise to hear that Australia receives any snow at all!

video
Asset
Movietone News: Skiing

This Movietone newsreel from 1934 features aerial views of the Snowy Mountains, including a chalet from which members of the Ski Club of Australia are leaving, yodelling as they go. 

video
Asset
Freak Snow

If it's hard for some to accept there is snow in Australia at all what about snow falling in summer! This news clip shows some heavy falls only two weeks before the official start of summer.

video
Asset
Skiing Elite Gather at Kosciusko

This newsreel segment from 1937 about an international skiing competition at Mt Townsend starts by looking at the competitors' headwear and then shows the New Zealand team performing a haka on skis

video
Asset
Skiing Holiday at Mt Buller, 1929

As this silent clip from 1929 shows, access to the snow fields was clearly something of an ordeal before the construction of the Alpine Way.

video
Asset
Thredbo Village is Alpine Playground

Episode 129 of Australian Diary by the Australian National Film Board effectively promotes Thredbo Alpine Village ski resort.

video
Asset
Skiing trip to the Victorian Alps, 1926

This silent clip is an excerpt from a longer piece of footage from 1926 that follows the journey of a group of tourists who go skiing in the Victorian Alps.

video
Asset
Roof of Australia

The snowfields of the Australian Alps are larger than those in Switzerland according to this documentary made by the Commonwealth Film Unit 1957.