Australian Winter officially starts today (although a few states jumped the gun this year). Cosy up with a hot chocolate and come with us to Mount Kosciuszko, 1947. Made only a year after World War II ended, this promotional film from the National Film Board has an air of determined cheerfulness, focusing on rowdy fun like tobogganing and night frolics in the snow. The mood of the piece is fluid, switching from lyricism (‘black shadows on a field of white’) as the camera lingers on herringbone s

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