Slow Foxtrot dancing after arrival May 1934 at the Amsterdam Schiphol airport of dance couples participating in the International Dance Competition that is being organized in Amsterdam to coincide with the release of the MGM film ‘Dancing Lady’. The winning dance couple will be delegated to Hollywood by MGM .
Film edited from dutch Polygoon cinema news reel week 21 , 1934 | Polygoontoon | Sound & Vision (Open Images).
Music in this Polygoon footage is the hit song of MGM’s “Dancing Lady” : Everything I Have Is Yours by George Olsen & his Music.
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‘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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‘Entartete Art’ 1935 – Coleman Hawkins & Leo de la Fuente in Holland
American saxophonist Coleman Hawkins announces and plays – accompanied by Leo de la Fuente on piano – on his tenor saxophone ‘I wished that I were twins’.
In 1934, Coleman Hawkins left the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra and Amerika, moved to Europe, and joined the Jack Hylton Orchestra in England. Hylton and his band made regular ‘continental’ tours, and started another European tour January 1935 accompanied by Coleman Hawkins in Holland. At the end of January 1935 Hawkins joins the dutch band The Rambers … for 8 days … because Hawkins was denied entry to Germany because of his race, while Hylton and his band continued their tour without him and play for eight days at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall.
To end this special week with Hawkins well, the bandleader of The Ramblers – Theo Uden Masman – arranged with Decca for recordings 4 february 1935 in Pulchri Studio in The Hague, Holland, including this : I wish I were twins…that was also recorded on film by Polygoon (Polygoontoon) for the dutch cinema news for next week .
Coleman Hawkins is accomponied here on film by the dutch jazz pioneer Leo de la Fuente on piano , playing ‘I wished that I were twins’ . After the recordings, Hawkins moves further into Europe.
Leo – Leonard Henriques – de la Fuente, who was born Jewish in Amsterdam 28 March 1902, was deported by the nazi’s to Auschwitz on 2 November 1942, and died 30 April 1944 ‘somewhere in Mid Europe’.
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Water Transport Boskoop Holland 1931 (english below)
NL – Planten transport over het water – in een schouw ‘gewogen’ (voortgeduwd met de vaarboom door een man lopende op de kant van de sloten) op de kwekerijen in Boskoop, en tenslotte in containers in 1931 in Holland. Bewerking van Polygoon bioscoopjournaal week 33, 1931 | Open Beelden | Beeld & Geluid .
EN – Plant transport over water – in a barge pushed with a pole by a man walking on the bank of waterways at the nurseries in the dutch village of Boskoop, and in the end in containers in 1931 in Holland. Edited from the Dutch Polygoon cinema news reel week 33, 1931 | Open Images | Sound & Vision.
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Stoomtrein Gouda-Alphen Holland 1934 (english below) NL – Zondag 7 oktober 1934 – Opening spoorlijn Gouda-Waddinxveen-Boskoop-Alphen in Holland met feestelijke aankomst van de stoomtrein op station Boskoop. NB. Film toont beelden van langs de spoorlijn en toont achtereenvolgens herkenbaar bij naam de stations van resp. Waddinxveen en Boskoop. Echter het eerste shot van een ‘stations gebouw’ in deze film herken ik als ook beeld van station Boskoop, terwijl suggestie is dat dit Gouda zou zijn — en de mensenmassa langs de lijn in het derde shot zal ook wel in Gouda zijn. Bewerking van Polygoontoon bioscoopjournaal week 41, 1934 | Open Beelden | Beeld & Geluid .
EN – Sunday 7 October 1934 – Opening of the Gouda-Waddinxveen-Boskoop-Alphen railway line in Holland with festive arrival of the steam train at Boskoop station. NB. Film shows images from along the railway line and successively shows the stations of respectively recognizable by name Waddinxveen and Boskoop. However, I recognize the first shot of a ‘station building’ in this film as also an image of Boskoop station, while the suggestion is that this would be Gouda – and the crowd of people along the line in the 3rd shot will probably also be in Gouda. Edited from the Dutch Polygoontoon cinema news reel week 41, 1934 | Open Images | Sound & Vision.
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Opening Boskoop Station 1934 (english below)
Zondag 7 oktober 1934 feestelijke aankomst van de met bloemen versierde stoomtrein op station Boskoop – met blaasorkest Harmonie Excelsior Boskoop – bij opening van de spoorlijn Gouda-Waddinxveen-Boskoop-Alphen in Holland. Op de achtergrond de toren van het nieuwe Flora cafe-restaurant tentoonstellings gebouw. Bewerkt naar een Nederlands bioscoopjournaal week 41, 1934 door Polygoontoon uit het Beeld & Geluid Open Beelden archief.
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Sunday 7 October 1934 festive arrival of the flower-decorated steam train at Boskoop station – with wind band Harmonie Excelsior Boskoop – at the opening of the railway line Gouda-Waddinxveen-Boskoop-Alphen in Holland. In the background the tower of the new Flora restaurant-exhibition building. Edited from a Dutch cinema news reel week 41, 1934 by Polygoontoon from the Sound & Vision Open Images archive.
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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)
