Abandoned Theme Park - Fairytale Forest

Описание: The story of Fairytale Forest shares many parallels with the Gingerbread Castle, a project of similar motivation and scope. However, as is often the case - Two artists working from relatively similar concepts ended up with wildly different results. Paul Woehle Sr., then a 40 year old German immigrant to the US, began building Fairytale Forest with his own hands in 1955. With help from his two sons, he was able to complete the project in two years, and it opened to the public in 1957.

Woehle chose to rely on more dispersed, smaller-scale exhibits than the aforementioned Gingerbread Castle. Instead of constructing an entire environment from scratch, he used the forest, more than capable of being mysterious and fantastical on its own, as a canvas. A winding path led guests through the woods, and along the way they were able to glimpse key moments from the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. More than 20 cottages sat nestled in the trees, their interiors depicting frozen scenes from the most famous children's stories. Though visitors could not actually enter the buildings, they could peek through the windows to see what was unfolding within. A small plaque on each cottage gave a brief summary of what could be expected within, be it the Gingerbread Man escaping his oven, or the three bears debating what to do with a sleeping Goldilocks...


The full story can be found here -
http://rustytagliareni.blogspot.com/2...


Thanks to Spudz64 for allowing us the use of his old 8mm reel. The vintage footage was shot during the summer of 1964, a very stark contrast to the modern-day footage which we filmed -
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Music - "La Petite Fille De La Mer" by Vangelis