Propaganda film about the Dutch Military. Willy Mullens made this film in 1917, when other West-European armies had become numbed by three long years in the trenches. The footage depicts a relatively high-spirited mood, considering how the Dutch military had mobilized but not actually participated...
The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach
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'Zandvoort in an uproar! On Saturday morning at roughly 10 o’clock, with beautiful weather and calm seas, a Frenchman sat in a beach chair to gaze upon the magnificent view that the sea always affords, until he slowly began to fall asleep’ So begins a report in the ‘Zandvoortsche Courant’...
The people of Urk, Netherlands, mainly women, men, and children in traditional costume, posing for the camera. The film was probably shot on a public holiday. We see several women doing their daily work: hanging the laundry, and fetching water from the pump. A postman comes along with the letters.
The winter of 1917 was extremely cold, with some of the lowest average temperatures in history. The film shows the effects of this cold winter on daily life in the Netherlands. We see, for example, the frozen Hofvijver in The Hague, ice on the beach of Scheveningen, and Volendam being threatened by...
Monster Demonstration on Monday November 18, 1918 on the Malieveld in The Hague
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Footage of the public declaration of support to Queen Wilhelmina that took place a week after SDAP leader Troelstra had declared the revolution in the Netherlands in the wake of the First World War.
A crowd of supporters walk towards the stadium, which opened in 1914 in the Nederlandsch Sportpark on the Amstelveenseweg. The stadium’s general manager, J.J. van den Berg, is in the audience. The national anthems are played, and the players of Denmark and the Netherlands introduce themselves....
Reportage about the first flight to the Dutch Indies. Shots of the departure of the Fokker VII H-NACC in the Netherlands in the presence of KLM-director Plesman and of the arrival in the Dutch Indies. We also see the trial flight above Rotterdam.
The Dutch factory shown in the film manufactures e.g. lightbulbs, street lamps, bowls, and cups. Various facets of the production process are captured: melting, glass-blowing, heating, cooling, decorating, modelling, grinding, and glazing.
Filmed from a tram, we see the Utrechtseweg, with imposing villas on both sides of the street, including the country house ‘Ma retraite'. The film also contains footage of the ‘villa quarter’, the town hall, the Hotel Figi on Het Rond, and the Donkerelaan, as well as Slot Zeist, surrounded by...
