Cancan dance performance (silent film) by the Miss Walker Girls & De Groot’s Select Jazz Orchestra, Summer 1926, in Cinema Royal, Amsterdam, Holland. Bandleader Hugo de Groot started the first cinema jazz orchestra in Holland in 1925 with his ‘De Groot’s Royal Band’. In 1926 he started with the help of other musicians in town the larger De Groot’s Select Jazz Orchestra (1).
Night Watch by Rembrandt van Rijn
Animation of exploring online the high resolution
(717 gigapixel) image of the Night Watch (1) . The Night Watch is a celebrated painting of the dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn — showing citizens of Amsterdam protecting the city. The painting is almost 400 years old. The high resolution image is a montage of 8439 pictures of the details , created using AI by the team of Operation Night Watch, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland.
The focus of the animation is the highlighted girl – with a chicken upside down on her belt – the mascotte of the Amsterdam Night Watch, and resembling Rembrandt’s wife Saskia Uylenburgh.
Encore 600x Carré Herman van Veen | 20231203 | 1-memo•com | Applause for Herman van Veen and his great team , today the 599th show I believe (thought it felt like #600) for Herman in Carré theater in Amsterdam. Some empty seats , from people thinking the show was over, and just left, and next another encore ….. Soon show #600 ;)
Dutch cinema news Jan 1937 showing the brand new Boskoop bridge , build 1936 in Boskoop village over the Gouwe river , in the Green Heart of Holland.
Riveted steel lift bridge over the Gouwe, built 1935-1936 by N.V. De Vries Robbé & Co. from Gorinchem for the widening and canalization of the Gouwe in the context of the improvement of the waterway from Amsterdam to Rotterdam. Identical vertical lift bridges are located in Waddinxveen and in Alphen aan den Rijn.
The passage width is 25 meters, the width between the railings is 9 meters. The vertical clearance when closed is 2.5 meters and when opened it is 35 meters. On the bridge there are steel railings with decorative circles and the name and year of construction of the bridge in wrought ironwork: “Boschkoopse Brug, Anno Domini 1936”
References
Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (RCE, Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands)
Bridge 112 Amsterdam Streets | 20230704 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com | Street view on the banks of the Prinsengracht canal with in the west bank the ‘Tennis Court’ bridge (Caetsbaanbrug, bridge 112) over the Lauriergracht canal – in the 16th century called ‘Caetsbaensloot’ for the ditch along the ‘Caetsbaenspad’ , the footpath , named after a tennis court (caetsbaen) there outside the city walls, now the Jordaan district of Amsterdam. The Westerkerk church bells are ringing 4:30 PM, January 7, 2020). 2023 reedit of the Sony A7SII SDR footage to HDR-HLG #SDRtoHDR; sound Sony stereo mic ECM-XYST1M, using extra deadcat on top of Sony’s original one. SDR version published 20200109 (shorter) | TakeNode 46f6a028-6e71-4488-9ba9-d3760afb99c8
