Ok so it's not very seasonal-appropriate but this is a current favourite in the office, a travelogue of Denmark in the 1960s which departs from the usual tourist sights to show us some unexpected and rather wonderful things:
The first thing to catch our eye was this scene at the races. I love the sheer scale of the hats and the hairdos, there's an element on humour there but also an undercurrent of competition, who can get the biggest hair, it's all a bit Marie Antoinette. The lady at the end wins hands down:
And here's some apartment blocks, the mixture of the modern architecture plus the flashes of colour is set off beautifully by the ivy which swathes the building:
This clip takes us into a Danish retirement home, it looks like a hoot; relaxing in chic surroundings where the days are spent playing pool and telling each other jokes:
And as a finishing touch there are these gentleman chimney sweeps. In their top hats they look rather like upper class Victorian cat burglars:
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