Nightwish - Walking In The Air HD (The Snowman)

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Uploaded by on Sep 14, 2009

Nightwish - Walking In The Air (The Snowman)

The Snowman is a movie from the 80's. And I was very young when I first watched it. Maybe I was like 3 or 4 years old.

The Snowman is the tale of a boy who builds a snowman one winter's day. That night, at the stroke of twelve, the snowman comes to life.
The first part of the story deals with the snowman's attempts to understand the appliances, toys and other bric-a-brac in the boy's house, all while keeping quiet enough not to wake the boy's parents. The two then venture back outside and go for a ride on a motorcycle, disturbing many animals: pheasants, rabbits, a barn owl, a fox and a brown horse.
In the second part of the story, the boy and the snowman take flight — the song "Walking in the Air" appears at this point. They fly over the boy's town, over houses and large public buildings before flying past the Royal Pavilion in Brighton and a pier and then out into the ocean. They continue north past many sights and animals. Flying into the aurora borealis they reach their destination.
The two wander hand-in-hand into a snow-covered forest and attend a snowmen's party, at which the boy is the only human. They meet Father Christmas and his reindeer, and the boy is given a scarf with a snowman pattern.
The story ends after the return journey. However, the sun has come out the next morning and the boy wakes up to find the snowman has melted. The viewer begins to wonder if the night's events were all a dream, but the boy discovers that he still has the scarf given to him...

Especially the ending made a big impact on me...
After that first time, I never saw this movie again, but I always kept thinking about it, never knowing what the movie was called.
Lately I went looking for it, and I finally found it.
After I found out that nightwish made a cover of the original song, I went making a cover of it too, and here it is!

I hope you all enjoy it as much as I loved making it.


Gear and software used:
Ibanez JS 1200 CA
Peavey envoy 110
Zoom GFX-8
Vox Satchurator
Vox Time Machine
Boss NS-2

Sony Vegas Pro 8
POD Farm
Ableton Live 7
Sony HDR-SR 11 Full HD Camera
Line 6 UX-1 toneport

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  • Fantastic movie! My daughter (then 4 y.o.), husband and I watched it on the 2005 Xmas season in England (we are from Mexico), and I am now searching for a video condensed version for the Xmas concert of the Youth Symphonic Orchestra (Sinfonica Juvenil de Tijuana) in which my daughter will sing this movie theme (she loves it). The Choir's director already have the sheet music of the song, but he would like to show the video. Where did you find this video version?

  • @66aalvarez

    I made it myself :-)

  • Great job of the video and song =) I was the same age when I saw this also, I just HAD to sign up to comment on this video. I never stop thinking of it, I had it on VHS and I wish I could get it on DVD.. It always makes me cry!!! I don't know why lol anyway your video rocks!! Great guitar playing too :-)

  • Thanks!

    You can download the movie of the internet if you want, Just search for the snowman torrent.

  • zelfs ik ken dit nummer nog =D en de film, waanzinnige film.. best wel psychedelisch eigenlijk!

    Goed gespeeld =D!!

    Groeten~!

  • Bedankt man!

    Inderdaad erg goede film. Heeft veel indruk up me gemaakt toentertijd ;-)

    Gr.

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  • I too have seen this movie as a young child and only saw it once in school . Ever since then I have remembered it also it has made an impact on me. So I to went searching for it on fabulous Youtube and found it and now can share it with my daughter and partner and she absolutely loves it and I am glad I can share something that was and still is special to me as a child that I have kept all these years in my innerchild. Thanks. :)

  • Epic!

  • There just is something that makes this so awesome! Can't even find words to describe this masterpiece

  • Perfect I love this weather, snow falling, fire glowing candles on music playing ...perfect harmony Xx love it ,,plus girls are out all night x bliss x

  • omg 3:00-3:15 Goosebumbs

  • This song <3 this book <3 this film <3

  • next best version to the orignal. awesome job

  • I discovered Snowman at 24 years old and that made me cry :'). Beautiful!!!

  • And your guitar solo is an awesome.. cool

  • Very Nice idea..! Thx for this. Merry Xmas to U all <3

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