Vasilis send us two links of films from 1979 and 1980. The first – short – film is from a service in the Protaton church in October 1979 (just a couple of months before my first visit to the Holy Mountain – July 1980).

The second film is an unique image, shot from a small airplane flying over the monasteries. It has the title Selection, pl. b (in Plagal, Second Mode) and there are subtitles in Greek and English with the texts of the Psalms.
Have a look at the Iviron monastery, where you stil see the wall in the southeast (scene 4), nowadays partly filled up with a new building. Scene 17, starting at 7.49, got me confused, because it lookes like a river flowing from a village, but it is in fact the (wet) road from Karyes to Skiti Andreou, that shines in sun!

Sografou and surrounding buildings (scene 16: 7.35)

1. 0.00 – 1.13 Skiti Andreou and Karyes
2. 1.14 – 1.20 Lavra
3. 1.21 – 1.33 Vatopediou
4. 1.34 – 1.48 Iviron
5. 1.49 – 2.27 Lavra and its harbor (Arsanas)
6. 2.28 – 3.44 Arsanas and Lavra
7. 3.45 – 4.28 Lavra
8. 4.29 – 5.16 Lavra
9. 5.17 – 5.42 Docheiariou
10. 5.43 – 6.16 Chilandariou
11. 6.17 – 6.19 Docheiariou
12. 6.20 – 6.21 Xenofontos
13. 6.22 – 6.28 Pantocratoros
14. 6.29 – 6.32 Sografou
15. 6.33 – 7.12 Sografou
16. 7.13 – 7.48 Sografou
17. 7.49 – 8.24 Koutloumousiou and Karyes
18. 8.25 – 8.39 Stavronikita

Wim, 7/3