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Casino Jazz Night 1934 | 20240123


Saturday Night 11 August 1934 at Night in Film Land (“Een Nacht in Filmland”) in Abraham Tuschinski’s Casino – Kurhaus in Bad Zandvoort seaside of Zandvoort in Holland. People singing and swinging during the costumed film ball , with movie star imitators as well as film directors , producers , distributors,journalists. Loud jazz music from the Chocolate Kiddies band.
The great performance that night by the dutch variety artist Heintje David with the hit “Draaien” was posted in 2017 (Turn .. “Draaien” .. Filmland 1934 | 20170724).

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Filmbal in ‘t Casino | Het volk 13-08-1934 | Delpher | https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKB15:000914073:mpeg21:a00011

Film edited from dutch Polygoon-Profilti cinema news reel week 33, 1934 | Sound & Vision (Open Images).

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Swinging Stars 1935 | 20240122


After the monster film congress in Berlin, a swinging Saturday night 23 March 1935 in the Amsterdam Carlton Hotel at The First Dutch Film Ball (Het Eerste Nederlandsche Filmbal) organized by the dutch film world (with Loet Barnstein, …Ehrlich…Hamburger…Willy Mullens…Max Tak…Abraham Tuschinski…Kor Postma) both to celebrate the film world and especially to collect money for their foundation ‘Bio Vakantieoord’ ( Cine Holiday Resort ) — founded in 1927 by the cinema owner Abraham Tuschinski and the Dutch Cinema Association (Nederlandse Bioscoopbond; NBB; association of cinemas , distributors and producers) to facilitate holidays in their seaside ‘castle’ on the dutch coast, each month for 90 poor lower class children living in the big cities like Amsterdam. At that time, also , twice a year (the Christmas and Easter weeks), money was collected for that Bio Holiday Resort foundation in the dutch cinemas, but because of the Great Depression donations are shifting from ‘silver’ to nickel …copper . The fundraising went hand in hand with promotional films made by the Dutch Profilti and Polygoon cinema newsreel companies . Next week people would watch this Polygoon news in the cinemas. The newspapers wrote, those present will be filmed, and if allowed by the police , the film will be shown the same night, and many movie and theater stars, filmschlagers, to be present … Harry Baur, Henriette Davids, Jopie Koopmans, Kid Johnson, Reri, Johan Kaart, Frits van Dongen, Henk Alsem.
Dutch news bulletin De groene Amsterdammer had a picture (collage?) with prominent guests (or impersonations?) : Gloria Swanson, Max Tak, Jean Harlow, Loet C. Barnstijn, Norma Shearer, Dr. M. de Hartog, Lupe Velez, Louis Davids, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Sylvain Poons, Myrna Loy, Mariene Dietrich, Wethouder Boissevain, Kor Postma, Theo Ketelaar. And a dutch cinematography news bulletin reported ‘the expected foreign stars were conspicuous by their absence’.

Film edited from dutch Polygoontoon (Polygoon Hollands Nieuws) cinema news reel week 13, 1935 | Sound & Vision (Open Images).

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Jazzy Film Ball 1936 | 20240121 | Miracles•Media

Het Eerste Nederlandsche Filmbal. De Gooi- en Eemlander 13-03-1935. URL https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:011171806:mpeg21:a0107

Een filmbal in Carlton. Het Volk, 19-03-1935. | Delpher | URL https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?coll=ddd&identifier=MMKB15:000891066:mpeg21:a00076

Het eerste filmbal in Nederland. Delftsche courant 19-03-1935. URL https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKB08:000076473:mpeg21:a0043

Het eerste Nedrlandse filmbal in Carlton. Het Volk 25-03-1935. URL https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKB15:000891071:mpeg21:a00067

Nieuw weekblad voor de cinematografie, jrg 13, 1935, no. 26, 29-03-1935 | URL https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMEYE02:001535013:00039

De groene Amsterdammer, jrg 59, 1935, no. 3016, 23-03-1935 URL https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKB30:021531012:00014

Jazzy Film Ball 1936 | 20240121


‘Everything’ song with movie stars Dolly Haas, Pierre Blanchard and dancing star imitators Saturday night 21 March 1936 in the Amsterdam Carlton Hotel at the second annual ‘film ball’ organized since 1935 by the dutch film world both to celebrate and especially to collect money for their foundation ‘Bio Vakantieoord’ ( Cine Holiday Resort ) — founded in 1927 by the cinema owner Abraham Tuschinski and the Dutch Cinema Association (Nederlandse Bioscoopbond; NBB; association of cinemas , distributors and producers) to facilitate holidays in their seaside ‘castle’ on the dutch coast, each month for 90 poor lower class children living in the big cities like Amsterdam. At that time, also , twice a year, money was collected for that Bio Holiday Resort foundation in the dutch cinemas . The fundraising went hand in hand with promotional films made by the Dutch Profilti and Polygoon cinema newsreel companies . Next week people would watch this Polygoon news in the cinemas.

Film edited from dutch Polygoontoon (Polygoon Hollands Nieuws) cinema news reel week 13, 1936 | Sound & Vision (Open Images).

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Filmbal Carlton. De Zaanlander 14-03-1936. Delpher | URL
https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMGAZS01:000093042:mpeg21:a00044

Voor het Bio-vacantieoord. Algemeen Handelsblad
18-03-1936. URL https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010664659:mpeg21:a0209

Een filmbal in Carlton. Het Volk, 19-03-1935. | Delpher | URL https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?coll=ddd&identifier=MMKB15:000891066:mpeg21:a00076

Bio en de Bioscopen. URL https://www.biovakantieoord.nl/nl/over-ons/bio-en-de-bioscopen

Nederlands(ch)e Bioscoopbond. Eye. URL https://filmdatabase.eyefilm.nl/en/collection/film-history/article/nederlandsche-bioscoopbond

Turn .. “Draaien” .. Filmland 1934 | 20170724 | Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg•com | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2017/07/24/turn-draaien-filmland-1934/

Breaking News – Polygoon sound film David Hamburger 1931 | 20190826 | Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg•com | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2019/08/26/breaking-news-polygoon-sound-film-david-hamburger-1931/

Blackout…Johnny and Jones 1940 | 20240118


In 1940, the dutch teen idols Johnny and Jones, even though they were Jews, were able to continue performing under the Nazi occupation without too many problems.
The Amsterdam duo sang jazzy Dutch songs with a mock American accent and a parody of current events.

Blackout means black!
July 1940 Johnny and Jones sang a parody on the Blackout , the dutch song ‘Maak het donker in het donker’ (make it dark in the dark).

Later during World War 2, in 1943, they were deported to the Nazi death camps. They died of exhaustion in the last days of the war in 1945 (see Notes).

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Swing & Hot – Johnny and Jones 1938 | 20240114 | Miracles•Media | @michelvanderburg | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2024/01/14/swing-hot-johnny-and-jones-1938-20240114/

Still image in film : Poster for the single ‘Maak het donker in het donker’.

Lyrics ‘Maak het donker in het donker’ | Johnny and Jones (1940)

De overheid heeft het publiek bevolen
Als het donker is dan moet het donker zijn !
Er mag geen enkel licht naar buiten schijnen
Doe verduisteringspapier voor je gordijn
Anders staan ze ’s avonds aan je bel te bellen
En dan komt de luchtbescherming je vertellen :

Refrein:
Maak het donker, maak het donker in het donker
Ook al gaan de sterren door met hun geflonker
Ik loop langs de huizenkant
Met mijn luchtbeschermingsband
Een lantaren in mijn hand
Om te kijken waar iets brandt
Houdt dus rekening met de verduisteringswensen
Maak het donker, reuze donker beste mensen !
Refrein

Het blokhoofd van blok zeven uit wijk negen
Zag de dochter van het wijkhoofd uit blok tien
Met een rood hoofd kwam hij blokhoofd negen tegen,
Hij zei hoofd, heb jij het wijkhoofd ook gezien ?
Ik heb in het hoofd gezet het wijkhoofd te gaan vragen ,
Of die wijkhoofd-(griet/strike?) mijn blokhoofdnaam wil dragen : Refrein

Van Zanten zag een meisje in het duister,
Zij was slank gevormd en toch niet dik van lijn.
Hij dacht, dit is de jonkvrouw mijner dromen,
Binnenkort zal zij mevrouw Van Zanten zijn.
In de duisternis vroeg hij haar om een kusje,
Flip van Zanten zei zij toen, ik ben toch je zusje !
Refrein

Music : Maak het donker in het donker | Text & Music by Johnny and Jones (1940). Recorded in Vara-studio, Hilversum, 19 july 1940. DH2051. (Varagram 7175). | Wikimedia Commons

Film (image) : edited from Polygoon-Profilti cinema news reel week 36, September 1940 (under nazi rule) | Sound & Vision (Open Images).

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