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This year is the 50th anniversary of the opening of Snowy Mountains Scheme – SMS - with similarities to the SHB, not least in the development of construction techniques, the rise in technological sophistication (‘Snowcom’ – our first main frame computer) and the immigrant workers who were the basis of modern multiculturalism. Some 42 nations were represented amongst the 100,000 workers during its construction.

His cabin-mate and close friend was Charles Chauvel, the pioneer filmmaker. Curtis studied at the Art Institutes of San Francisco and Chicago and that sparked his lifelong interest as a commercial artist documenting modern industry. In Hollywood he met and married Ruth Baldwin, moved to Chicago, and had a daughter.