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Tempelhof soundtrack for EFG – European Film Gateway from Tempelhof on Vimeo.

I’m a sucker for collections – button, stamp, vinyl toy, shoe, pen, cake platter, marble, autograph.  You name it, if there’s a big group / gaggle of something, I’ll probably stare fascinated for hours.

Likewise with the European Film Gateway archive website – a massive video and photo search tool highlighting the greatest European film archives (check out their sources here).

Search through photos, text, newsreels and films to re-live eras gone by.  Their handy collections (which will be growing dramatically over the next few months) help more cinema-savvy searchers find hidden gems.

For the voyeuristic and history nerds (me me!), you can spend hours poring through footage and photo alike – plenty of material for feeling movie geek nostalgia, planning future Halloween costumes and making hilarious captions up as you go along.  Well, hilarious in my head at least.

Helpful hint from The Bioscope, type the letter ‘a’ in the search to get a full listing of EFG contents – their search currently has much to be desired.