This 5-10 minute "Hello" ["watch film"] is an eloquent exercise in iconography, and presages the kind of mix&match nostalgia we expect to show up in culture memes as time goes on.
As dinosaurs who were there, not when
Victrolas had horns but when scratchy plastic was the soundtrack for
longing, we know that a peculiar essence of the long civilization of
romance lost its way about the time of boomboxes and CD players, the heightening context of inhibition and ritual, not just the music that accompanied it.
The masterful little amateur animation says more perhaps than it intends to do.
Via Good Grief on the blogroll at Grant's site, where commenter Peter segues off into learned comments about Elizabeth I's Stripping of the Altars, a demythologization gaining more interest in the wake of the contemporary Interesting Condition of the Anglican Communion. A rich & varied space.
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