# \[Home Movie: Barbara's Little House of Flowers Collection, circa 1972, Trip to Germany\]

Synopsis Family Trip to Germany Collection Description This film (Kemp_8289) is part of the Barbara’s Little House of Flowers collection. With an artist’s eye, Barbara Joan Reisner was keen to explore her family history in Europe as well as across the United States. She travelled often throughout the 1950s, 60s and 70s, documenting the rural villages and town squares of her father’s youth that constituted the former territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; she toured pastoral regions of Southern Italy and the great cultural institutions of New York. Her images capture these vistas from the perspective of a young American woman forging a path for herself in the Arts. Ahead of her time, Barbara’s camera pays attentions to the intimate moments of life and the connections forged between people, animals, and nature. Like her mother, and her mother’s mother, Barbara was a magpie when it came to memories. Barbara documented that which she adored, which included: music, animals, religion, plants, art — these were her passions, and she filled dozens of scrap books, photo albums and reels of film with these subjects. As the daughter of a Polish immigrant, Barbara made two major trips to Europe in the 1950s and 60s, both of which are captured on film. After graduating college, Barbara worked for a spell as a fashion illustrator in the advertising department for The Broadway, a now historic (and defunct) department store in Los Angeles. Erstwhile her passion as a concert…

- Kind: Home movie
- Year: 1972
- By: Barbara Joan Reisner
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ALCF_Kemp_8289)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/ALCF_Kemp_8289?play=1)