This film shows the Northern provinces: Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe as well as the two Western provinces: North and South Holland, as it was over 90 years ago before 1930! More details are in the time line below. The quality of the original B&W; footage is not as good as other footage from the same source. Nevertheless, it is so unique that we decided to upload it to Youtube. The B&W; source has been motion-stabilized, speed-corrected, interpolated, restored, enhanced and colorized with modern A.I. video software. Because of the poor quality, the video noise and other filters had to be configured to higher settings to more drastically clean up the footage. Music: Spectacles Wallet and Watch Source: Beeld En Geluid, A great Dutch online historic film archive. Timeline (draft): 00:00 Steam train 00:12 Groningen and Martini tower 00:18 Agrigultural activity 00:46 Bringing in the hay 00:57 National fest in Appingedam 01:06 Horse and buggy 01:40 In the woods 01:56 A shepherd and his sheep 02:26 Digging turf 02:40 Cutting turf sods for heating purposes 03:13 Black & white Friesian cows (Fries stamboekvee) 03:41 Groninger blaarkop cow breed 03:52 Healthy cow 03:58 Healthy bull 04:07 Ice scating along the canals and lakes in Friesland 04:17 Ice masters 04:58 Ice sailing 05:37 Ice skating, maybe part of an Eleven Cities competition 05:42 Sailing on Friesland's many lakes 06:40 Train ferry near Stavoren 06:51 Industrious activity on the water 07:06 Binding wicker 07:18 Wicker mats as underground for a new dyke 07:32 Dyke construction 07:48 Creating a solid under layer with bolders 08:03 Filling barges with clay 08:19 Pumping clay and sand to create the dyke 09:23 Finishing the dyke 09:46 A scenic boat trip along a canal 10:14 Watermill 10:42 Scenes along a canal 10:44 The land is about 3 m. lower than the water level! 11:06 Alkmaar and its famous cheese market 11:27 "Handjeklap" to make a deal 11:31 Inspecting and tasting the cheese 11:45 Weighing the cheeses 11:56 Amsterdam Central Station and the famous Tea house 12:14 Panning towards the Damrak 12:30 Palace on the Dam 12:42 Stock exchange: Beurs van Berlage 12:51 Beursplein 12:55 Damrak looking towards the Central Station 13:15 Leidseplein: American Hotel, Stadsschouwburg and Hirsch building 13:57 Rijksmuseum 14:05 Designed by Kuyper 14:11 The Munttoren 14:20 One of Amsterdams wonderful canals, location-1 (?) 14:26 Location-2 (?) 14:38 Location-3 (?) 14:43 Location-4 (?) 14:52 Location-5 (?) 15:00 Location-6 (?) 15:04 Rembrandthuis, Jodenbreestraat 15:20 Statue of Rembrandt 15:28 Rembrandt's famous Nightwatch 15:38 Near Het Kolkje 15:48 Het Kolkje 16:01 Ditto, location-8 (?) 16:07 Alley, location (?) 16:12 Ladies trading goods 16:18 Old men, probably in the Jordaan quarters 16:26 Probably Volendam 16:42 Ladies in Volendam traditional costume 17:02 Volendam fisherman 17:07 Ditto 17:13 Ice skating on the Zuiderzee 17:16 Horse drawn ice sledge 17:21 Cycling on the ice 17:26 Such harsh winters are history now 17:37 Happy people from the island of Marken 17:52 Marken girl in traditional costume 17:59 Ditto, two Marken girls 18:06 Frans Hals museum in Haarlem 18:36 Hyacint growers 18:40 Fields full of flowers in the Bollenstreek 18:48 The famous Dutch tulips 19:03 Leiden, Academy building, Rapenburg near the Botanical Garden 19:28 A boat trip on a canal, probably in Leiden 19:36 Maybe the Vliet 19:51 Cattle along the canal (Vliet?) 19:56 The Hague, Houses of Parliament 20:12 The Ridderzaal where the Parliament meets 20:28 Looking towards the Ridderzaal through the pillars 20:45 Opening of Parliament in 1919, each year on the 3rd Tuesday in September 20:49 Queen Wilhelmina salutes the Royal Standard 20:57 She rides back to her palace 21:23 The Hofvijver next to the Houses of Parliament 21:42 Lange Vijverberg on the left 21:59 Vredespaleis (peace palace), funded by Carnegie 22:09 Judges inside the Vredespaleis 22:29 Ditto, outside 22:40 Scheveningen beach with its many wicker beach chairs 22:49 The old Pier right in front of the Kurhaus 22:58 The Pier burnt down during WWII in 1943 23:04 More beach scenes 23:10 The Hague, location (?) 23:25 Holland's many cyclists, probably been to the Bollenstreek 23:45 Canal in The Hague, maybe Mauritskade (?) 23:55 Removing leaves from cauliflower, location Westland (?) 23:59 Green houses in the Westland 24:06 The Nieuwe Kerk in Delft 24:24 Status of Hugo Grotius (Hugo De Groot) 24:32 Portrait of William of Orange 24:35 The grave of Hugo de Groot 24:41 The Grote Markt in Delft 24:44 Oude Langedijk 24:56 Oude Delft 25:06 Passing the Oude Kerk 25:11 Another canal in Delft, location (?) 25:15 Panoramic view of Rotterdam Harbour 26:35 Rotterdam harbor 30:56 Rotterdam Coolsingel Notes: 1. We had difficulty to find enough great music to fill over 30 minutes of video. If you don't like the music then just turn down the volume and play your own music in stead. 2. Please do not re-use my footage anywhere without permission, thanks!

• published: 08 Oct 2021
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