Absolutely fascinating. Water is the rarest commodity in Australia, from the early days of the Tank Stream through construction of the Sydney Metropolitan Dam System to the original Snowy for Power and to Snowy 2.
@1:18 the footage tells me it was filmed in Berridale at that moment in time as the footage shows 20 miles to coome which is the distance Berridale is from Cooma. reason why I say this is because I lived in Old Jindabyne and as a child we used to stop at the Berridale pub on the to and back from Cooma. The pub in Berridale had a dirt floor, I was about 10 years old and waited outside but could see inside the pub from the verandah. and Jindabyne is 15 miles from Berridale . my parents were displaced persons from the war in Europe Edit aah wow @1:29 Old Jindabyne appeared wow I remember so clearly every area shown wow... another edit @2:24 the rapids of the snowy river where we swam as kids you can see Old Jindabyne township up river... How I miss this lovely little township called Jindabyne all under water now,,so sad..because this was where I lived as a child and now unable to go back..I feel like it was stolen from me. @6:00 the bridge over the snowy at Jindabyne was shown, I crossed it many times as a child on the way to the shops to buy bread and milk. I ate a fair bit of bread on the way home and drank some milk too. the milk was straight from the cow still warm and frothy. A local farmer used to sell us the milk from his dairy. @6:24 I remember my dad lived there at Island Bend, I stayed there for a week during the school holidays once, it was winter those long huts had steam pipes running through them it was warm at night.
We had a holiday home in Mt Beauty in the 70s an ex electric commission home, the largest trout were caught in the spillway of the pondage, its still the one of the most beautiful parts of Victoria, foot of Mt Bogong.
What a little gem,a piece of social history and thankfully recorded for posterity.It would be interesting to do another film in the same locations today and examine all the successes and failures involved in the use of dams etc.thanks for posting-from England.
I was born in 1948 in Melbourne and as a little girl i absorbed quite a bit about the effort and felt very impressed by the works; albeit i do recall wondering about 'damage' or hurting things!
Yes, we have this one published already th-cam.com/video/wOkhR3FmXAo/w-d-xo.html And there are a couple more in the collection we will try and publish soon.
Could never be done these days! Firstly there would be all the environmental objections and then people would object to the use of refugees (from World War 2) who were conscripted to provide a large part of the labour force for this project.
Thank you for this very interesting footage. So sad to see our once pristine, fragile alpine environment, of which there is so little in Australia, blithely and irredeemably damaged for a scheme that is massively overrated in terms of its benefits and underacknowledged for the environmental destruction it wreaked. And now the pointless Snowy 2.0! This country just never learns
My Pop (My Old Man's father), worked on the Snowy as a Draughtsman. My Old Man was born in Cooma
Whether it was right or wrong , it was a enormous achievement
Absolutely fascinating. Water is the rarest commodity in Australia, from the early days of the Tank Stream through construction of the Sydney Metropolitan Dam System to the original Snowy for Power and to Snowy 2.
@1:18 the footage tells me it was filmed in Berridale at that moment in time as the footage shows 20 miles to coome which is the distance Berridale is from Cooma. reason why I say this is because I lived in Old Jindabyne and as a child we used to stop at the Berridale pub on the to and back from Cooma. The pub in Berridale had a dirt floor, I was about 10 years old and waited outside but could see inside the pub from the verandah. and Jindabyne is 15 miles from Berridale . my parents were displaced persons from the war in Europe
Edit aah wow @1:29 Old Jindabyne appeared wow I remember so clearly every area shown wow...
another edit @2:24 the rapids of the snowy river where we swam as kids you can see Old Jindabyne township up river...
How I miss this lovely little township called Jindabyne all under water now,,so sad..because this was where I lived as a child and now unable to go back..I feel like it was stolen from me.
@6:00 the bridge over the snowy at Jindabyne was shown, I crossed it many times as a child on the way to the shops to buy bread and milk. I ate a fair bit of bread on the way home and drank some milk too. the milk was straight from the cow still warm and frothy.
A local farmer used to sell us the milk from his dairy.
@6:24 I remember my dad lived there at Island Bend, I stayed there for a week during the school holidays once, it was winter those long huts had steam pipes running through them it was warm at night.
Great, thanks for the info.
Beautiful environment privileged to grow up in the Snowy Mountains. Extraordinary time.
Great video.
It appears to have a 'Where's Wally' moment:)
Keep an eye out for him!
at 7:43 lol.
We had a holiday home in Mt Beauty in the 70s an ex electric commission home, the largest trout were caught in the spillway of the pondage, its still the one of the most beautiful parts of Victoria, foot of Mt Bogong.
I love the films released by NFSA Films. I look forward to seeing more in the future - please don't leave so long between posts.
Thanks Craig. We'll try and pick up the pace. Only a few more thousand to go ;) Thanks for the feedback.
wonderful film
What a little gem,a piece of social history and thankfully recorded for posterity.It would be interesting to do another film in the same locations today and examine all the successes and failures involved in the use of dams etc.thanks for posting-from England.
Glad you enjoyed it
NFSA Films put some more videos out please. Nothings on tv here in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
NFSA Films got any videos?? It’s soo boring nothing on tv over here right now.
Very interesting, thank you.
Did you notice that none of the heavy machinery used hydraulics, just cables and levers! Amazing!
I was born in 1948 in Melbourne and as a little girl i absorbed quite a bit about the effort and felt very impressed by the works; albeit i do recall wondering about 'damage' or hurting things!
Awesome video of our history. Are there more of these about the snowy hydro?
Yes, we have this one published already th-cam.com/video/wOkhR3FmXAo/w-d-xo.html
And there are a couple more in the collection we will try and publish soon.
Shame i never got to witness this but being as i live in Brisbane not like on my doorstep ?
See we can do stuff if we put our minds to it
yes. see my station
My conception was an indirect result of this project.
Nfsa is wher my mum works
Dat cool
Could never be done these days! Firstly there would be all the environmental objections and then people would object to the use of refugees (from World War 2) who were conscripted to provide a large part of the labour force for this project.
Thank you for this very interesting footage. So sad to see our once pristine, fragile alpine environment, of which there is so little in Australia, blithely and irredeemably damaged for a scheme that is massively overrated in terms of its benefits and underacknowledged for the environmental destruction it wreaked. And now the pointless Snowy 2.0! This country just never learns
So woke