Round And Round is a nostalgic documentary film created by UCLA students in 2009 about the eccentric characters behind the antique carousels, their personal experiences and it's rich history in California. These passionate lovers of the carousel all have strong emotional attachments that seems to stem from childhood. Lourinda Bray from Running Horses Studio features in the film and big boy Buster, who I love sooo much.
Scott Ringwelski has a very romantic and poetic way of speaking about the carousel. Below is a transcript of him describing how the carousel 'holds' our memories.
"We're shaped, we're molded by those people and interactions that we have in our lives. We hold onto those things, those memories and such and they mold and shape us. Wood, apparently is the same way. It holds sound vibrations in the fibres of the wood. And as a result, looking at a carousel, what the carousel actually is it's a repository of generations, of all the hopes and the dreams and the laughter and the memories of all the people that have ever ridden it. So when you're on a carousel horse, yeah it seems like it has a personality. Well it does. It seems like it has maybe a heart and soul. It might. It has all the memories of all the people who have ever ridden it and you are contributing to it every time you ride one." Scott Ringwelski, Former Guardian, Historic Looff Carousel.
Click on the link below the picture above and give yourself a lovely 24 minute trip into the world of antique carousels within California. Enjoy!
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