Snow makes you feel like a child, it makes you feel like dancing in it.
It feels cold on your hands, tickles your nose and dances on your tongue.
Snow is the fifth element.

Selfportrait

River Lee, Cork, Ireland
Holga on 35mm film

FOTA wildlife park, Cork, Ireland

I hope this record is doing Tootwofoursquare's amazing short story justice.

It took me ages to get appropriate resources together, so in the end, I had to use a few several times throughout the video.

Thanks again to Mrs Hock for her beautiful and captivating reading of the short story.

If I forgot to list a resource please let me know and I'll add it straight away!

Hope you like!!

SARAH <3

This record comes with a bit of an explanation:

While I was rooting through Archive.org for an entirely different record I stumbled across this amateur film from what must have been any time between 1936-1937 (you can spot the Hindenburg at the end of the movie which only operated in that time frame) documenting a trip of an American couple through Europe. While I was quickly looking through it I recognised familiar landmarks. When I had a closer look I realised that this couple had been to two German cities that are very important to me. The first one in this record is Heidelberg, where I have lived for 2 years prior to moving to Dublin; the second one is Cologne, my favourite city in Germany and it is also very close to my own hometown. Now, the interesting thing is, I recognised the two cities because, even 80 years (!) later, they don’t look that much different. There is actually a café (Perkeo) visible in the first half of the movie that still exists – I know that because I have had lunch there several times! But even though it looks so familiar, it doesn’t at all look like the Germany I know and grew up in. It is interesting to see pictures of a time, when my grandparents were teenagers.
Anyways, I am rambling now. Inspired by the first two paragraphs of ManWithHat's "The City of Manifest Memory" I just wanted to put the material together, accompanied by PASIV’s beautiful Bath soundtrack - I hope you like it.

The whole movie can be found here: http://www.archive.org/details/EuropeanTrip (Amateur Film European Trip 1930s (Part I))