Tag: Holland

Jazzy 1937 Summer Holiday | 20240103


‘Wild’ jazz was used in the August 1937 dutch cinema news reel showing people all over Holland in a rush going on summer holiday. So jazz in those prewar years wasn’t considered ‘entartete’ art and clearly socially acceptable …. ‘salonfähig’… in Holland.
Film edited from dutch Polygoon cinema news reel week 34 , 1937 | Polygoon Hollands Nieuws | Sound & Vision (Open Images).
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Doyeon Fashion Fantasy | 20231229

Look book of today’s runway show : an elegant Dior-like two piece dress from our talented designer Doyeon, created using generative AI.
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Tango Dance | 20231220

Rembrandt Theatre, Haarlem, Holland, January 1930 (silent film). Demonstration of the different tango styles by dance teachers Cor Klinkert & Liesje Santen, dancing resp. the “French Tango”, the “Argentina”, the “Promenade”, the “Reserve Wave” and the “Habanera”.

Film edited from dutch Polygoon-Profilti cinema news reel week 01 , 1930 | Sound & Vision (Open Images).

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Hopla ! Revue 1935 Amsterdam | 20231219


Revue “Hopla … met de beentjes”, Plantage Schouwburg, Amsterdam. Matinee 17 maart 1935 voor 700 senioren – met succes nummer “Titteltjes en Spikkeltjes .. !”.
Film edited from dutch Polygoon Hollands Nieuws (Polytoon) cinema news reel week 12 , 1935 | Natuurbeelden | Sound & Vision (Open Images).
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Notes

De Plantage Schouwburg. De laatste jaren, deel 1 (1933 – 1939). Frits Slicht. Geheugen van Amsterdam. Amsterdam Museum. URL https://geheugenvancentrum.amsterdam/nl/page/1881/de-plantage-schouwburg

Hopla … Ook de Oudjes waarderen een Grap | De Sumatra Post 20-4-1935.


Hopla … Titteltjes en Spikkeltjes .. ! | De Tijd dagblad 1935

CanCan Dance | 20231218


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).

Film edited from dutch Polygoon-Profilti cinema news reel week 34 , 1926 | Europeana Sounds | Sound & Vision (Open Images).

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Notes
1. Het orkest van Cinema Royal. Joost Groeneboer. Versus 1988 nr. 2 , p. 73-96 . URL https://ugp.rug.nl/versus/issue/view/4279

Rembrandt’s Girl | 20231216


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.

Notes

1. Operation Night Watch. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland. URL https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/operation-night-watch

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