Valse Triste (1977)

With a similar dreamy mood like its predecessor Take the 510 to Dreamland 1976 this clip starts with a boy getting into his bed The camera zooms in into the boys mind and a slow sad waltz ieValse Triste accompanies images of a locomotive a miner the globe the sky a sheep heard etc Disparate elements but if one concentrates only at the movement of the figures one can perceive a commotion slowly livening up The starting wheels of the heavy locomotive the tired miner pushing the heavy cart of coal bricks the globe smoothly turning around and around the clouds imperceptibly floating in the sky the sheep idly moving in the herd etc We reach the first climax when a mannequin opens her coat like a flower The second big crescendo spurts out from a water hose after watching schoolgirls doing gymnastics for quite a while A sad but nostalgic aftertaste lingers in the end when funeral cars drive away through a flooded area