Turn of the Century

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Title

Turn of the Century

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NZ On Screen

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Description

This documentary comprehensively traces the history of skiing and winter sports in New Zealand. From Mannering and Dixon, who used homemade skis in an almost-successful ascent of Mt Cook and the hut-building pioneers of recreational ski clubs in their pre-Gore-tex garb, to commercial ski fields and lifts, superb archive footage shows the advances. New Zealand teams at the Winter Olympics in Oslo in 1952 and Sarajevo 32 years later had come some way from the days when carrier pigeons were used...

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Format

Video

Date created

1987

URL

http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/turn-of-the-century-1987

Related subjects

winter festival / rob hall / parapenting / southern alps / off the edge / bruce burgess / freestyle skiing / disabled skiing / heli-skiing / snow plough / gunter radler / giant slalom / sarajevo winter olympics / murray gardiner / elizabeth agnew / margot blakely / markus hubrich / matthias hubrich / simon wi rutene / bruce grant / kate rattray / christine grant / roy mckenzie / winter olympics / downhill / slalom / kayaking / ironman contest / figure skating / ice hockey / snow chains / mt cook tourist company / t-bar / rope tow / quadruple chair lift / kiwi ingenuity / ruapehu ski club / ernst skardarasy / harry wigley / sandy wigley / oscar coberger / ball hut / pioneer hut / tenzing norgay / edmund hillary / volcano / ice skating / canterbury winter sports club / arlberg technique / roped-pairs / ski clubs / kea / carrier pigeons / new zealand ski championship / ski jumps / crampons / crevasses / avalanche transceivers / ski mountaineering / ski mustering / high country sheep farming / dog sleds / thar / avalanche / skis / skiing / tapu / ngati tuwharetoa / tom fyfe / marmaduke dixon / guy mannering / horonuku / stuart blakely / parallel slalom

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