political scientist lawrence murphy folds the connected 415 hours of home movie reels showing what real life looks like for real people under the socialist regime. the resulting website open memory box allows visitors to click the words in english german french or russian watching clips from the archives of 149 german families. the footage is universal most of these films seem like they could have been filmed most anywhere in europe the people in them are just people living their lives despite the dictatorship. and with me here is alberto herskovitz one of the initiators of our project open memory box welcome to the show thank you . we hear a lot of people from germany said yes it was a dictatorship but it wasn't all bad is that part of what this project is trying to