Shot in the Philips factory that produced glass housings for lightbulbs, Eindhoven, Netherlands. In the factory, dozens of glass blowers can be seen making these glass housings. Two of them even manage to blow and stretch a piece of glass to a length of twenty meters.
The most important buildings, streets, monuments, and waterways of Rijswijk, Netherlands. We see churches, restaurants, mills, the Haagweg, the Cromvliet country estate, and the Vliet river. Everyday life is filmed as well: trams, bicyclists, police on horseback, mothers with children, rowboats on...
The harvest of gooseberries, apples, pears, and cherries. The film includes shots of the fruit-picking – by men, women and children – as well as the transport and the auction. The images of the harvest are interspersed with idyllic pictures of flowers, grazing cows, and young women eating...
Recordings of Duth towns Monnikendam, Enkhuizen and Edam. The film shows noteworthy buildings, squares, streets, factories and canals. The intertitles provide historical background information. Also beautiful pictures of a setting sun. Some shots were taken from the church tower and from a moving...
Documentary about Kampen, one of the oldest Dutch Hanseatic cities, located along the river Gelderse IJssel. We see its most important buildings, including the Hoofdcursus, which is the training building for army officers. Officers from the Indische Leger also trained here.
Corporate film commissioned by the Friesche Coöperatieve Zuivel-Export Vereeniging. The film was likely made for potential consumers of their products, as well as for farms in the region that might want to join the cooperative.
Film commissioned by the Dutch tobacco agency about the tobacco harvest in Deli on Sumatra, in the Dutch East Indies. In addition to the production of tobacco, we also see workers from various ethnic populations who have been moved to Sumatra by the tobacco industry, as well as the daily life of...
This documentary shows the most important squares, streets, and buildings of Zaltbommel, Netherlands, with shots of the river Waal. We see the market, the water tower, old fortifications, the railway bridge, the St Maartens tower, the carillon tower, and the cable ferry. The film also has footage...
