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This jaunty early National Film Unit film promotes the alpine scenery of Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park and its recreational opportunities. It includes slalom at the 1946 New Zealand ski champs, ice-skating at Lake Tekapo, comic pratfalls in the snow, a mass snow-fight and ... landscape painting. Dancing at the Hermitage Hotel is "a good way to loosen the muscles after skiing". As well as human interest, the film features the expected majestic mountains, glaciers, and avalanches, as well as curious kea at Ball Hut, and amusing dogs in snow-glasses.
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Short Film, 1964 (Full Length)
A journey across the Southern Alps ending at The Hermitage
Short Film, 1977 (Full Length)
Sam Neill-directed NFU doco on ‘ski ballet’ filmed in the Southern Alps
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Short Film, 1955 (Full Length)
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Short Film, 1958 (Full Length)
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Television, 1987 (Full Length)
A series on art and landscape in NZ
Film, 1987 (Full Length)
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Short Film, 1962 (Full Length)
Another NFU film showing wintertime fun in the snow
Television, 2007 (Excerpts)
Clarke Gayford goes snowboarding with Hayley Holt
Television, 1973 (Full Length)
Features The Hermitage and skylarking in the snow
Television, 1991 (Full Length Episode)
More jaunty Mount Cook action
Television, 1946 (Full Length)
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