Vappuhumua, filmed by Ama Jokinen, is a rarity from the late 1930s, a great experimental short film about the May Day celebrations of Helsinki residents. It offers excitement and unique angles using prism optics. This May Day photo truly lives and breathes, in a word, swings. "You had the desire to hug and I had the skill to do it..."
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Finland 01 May 1938
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03 June 1938
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