Carousel:
Function: noun Etymology: French carrousel, from Italian carosello Date: 1650 1: a tournament or exhibition in which horsemen execute evolutions. 2: a: merry-go-round b: a circular conveyor (luggage carousel at the airport) 3: a revolving case or tray used for storage or display

Nostalgia: ... pain from an old wound.

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Don and the guys have been racking their minds on this strange "wheel" that Kodak came up with to hold a massive amount of slides for their slide projectors.
In the midst of the backdrop of the Nixon-Kennedy election all the way from vote counts on chalk boards on little black and white T.V.s, Don comes up with a surprise presentation in the board room after his own life unravels in the same week.


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It's worth it.
Link to Mad Men Carousel scene





far more powerful than memory alone ....

it takes us to a place where we ache to go again...

a time machine.....


This was the last scene in season one of Mad Men.  This is why the writing , the creator, director and actors won awards.

I cried too - the audience cries and leaves the room just like the Harry did.

Poor Don ~ his life and marriage is a mess and getting worse when he looks longingly at the slides and goes home later to an empty house where he sits on the stairwell and thinks back on the nostalgia he talked about in the board room.
Don ~ the perfect Rod Serling - cool - calm- soft spoken and charming who can't seem to love or be loved and is stuck in his sad existential worldview of "this is all there is" frame of mind.....  watching the Kodak carousel...  click....click.....click.



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