Rumba Dance | 20240117

Rumba in 1932 with the dutch bandleader and jazz pianist Ernst van’t Hoff and his Virginians orchestra, and the dutch dance teachers Cor Klinkert & Liesje Santen. Including an introduction of this new fashion dance in Holland by Cor Klinkert — shifted to the end in this film.

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In 1940, after the Netherlands became Nazi-occupied territory, Ernst van’t Hoff was ordered to start a big band to play state-approved dance music, but he played some jazz anyway, recording songs such as “Pennsylvania 6-5000” and “In the Mood”. He recorded for Deutsche Grammophon and played at the Delphi Palast in Berlin, but in 1942 he was chastened by the Sicherheitsdienst for playing degenerate music. He was repeatedly taken into custody by the Gestapo and eventually, in April 1944, was dismissed from his post and moved to Belgium.

Ernst van ‘t Hoff | Wikipedia | URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_van_%27t_Hoff

Ernst Van ‘t Hoff and His Hot Wartime Dance Band (2017) by Anton and Erin Garcia-Fernandez | The Vintage Bandstand | URL http://vintagebandstand.blogspot.com/2017/07/ernst-van-t-hoff-and-his-hot-wartime.html

Film edited from dutch Polygoon Hollands Nieuws cinema news reel week 2, 1932 | Sound & Vision (Open Images).

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6/8 Dance | 20240116

Rembrandt Theatre, Haarlem, Holland, January 1930 (silent film). Demonstration of the new six-eight dance by teachers Cor Klinkert & Liesje Santen , including slow motion close up shots.
Film edited from dutch Polygoon-Profilti cinema news reel week 03 , 1930 | Sound & Vision (Open Images).
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PEN Club 1931 | 20240112

The 9th Annual International Congress of the PEN Club — Poets, Essayists, Novelists — in 1931 in the townhall of Rotterdam, Holland, with a focus on the Flemish writer Felix Timmermans, Dutch writer Dirk Coster (?), Dutch poet P.C. Boutens, Dutch writer Anthonetta (Top) Naeff, and in the final scene : the English author John Galsworthy (Nobel Prize Literature 1932) talking with the Dutch journalist and writer Lord Jan Feith, and the French author, critic and literary historian Benjamin Crêmieux — secretary of the French section of the PEN Club (see below).

From its inception in 1921, PEN was intended to be a non-political organisation. However, with the rise of the Nazis in Germany, and of fascism in Spain and Italy, it became increasingly difficult for PEN to stay away from the political; and that year 1931, the PEN Committee made a public ‘Appeal to All Governments’, which protested the plight of those imprisoned for political or religious reasons.

In 1940 Benjamin Crêmieux joined the French underground and became a leader of the Maquis resistance fighters.
In April 1943, two Gestapo agents detained Crémieux in Marseilles. He was arrested, imprisoned, and deported to Nazi Germany, where, in April 1944 he was executed in the Buchenwald concentration camp.

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P.E.N.-club . poets, playwrights, essayists, editors, novelists

PEN International. URL https://www.pen-international.org

Honderd jaar PEN (CLUB) Nederland: een beknopte geschiedenis. Liliane Waanders | Hanta. URL
https://www.hanta.nl/hanta/2023/04/10/honderd-jaar-pen-club-nederland-een-beknopte-geschiedenis/

A Brief History of PEN International. Cathal Sheerin. URL https://www.pen100archive.org/explore-the-exhibition/pen-internationals-history/

Benjamin Crémieux. Wikipedia. URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Crémieux

Een sportieve jonkheer: Jan Feith en Den Haag. De Oud-Hagenaar- De krant voor de 50-plusser. Dinsdag 27 dec 2016. URL https://www.desportwereld.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016-12-27_Een-sportieve-jonkheer-Jan-Feith-en-Den-Haag_De-Oud-Hagenaar.pdf

La Nova Dance | 20240111

Dancing La Nova, demonstration by Kroes & partner in Holland, in 1931.
Film edited from dutch Polygoon Hollands Nieuws cinema news reel week 3 , 1931 | Sound & Vision (Open Images).
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Jackson Girls Kickline | 20240108

The Jackson Girls dancing , Summer 1925, on the Scheveningen beach (The Hague) in Holland. Touring troupe of the German-based company of high-kicking precision dancers managed by impresario Alfred Jackson.
Silent film edited from August 1925 film by Willy Mullens | Haghefilm | Sound & Vision (Open Images).
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Foxtrot Dance | 20240106

Rembrandt Theatre, Haarlem, Holland, January 1930 (silent film). Demonstration of the Foxtrot by dance teachers Cor Klinkert & Liesje Santen , including slow motion close up shots.
Film edited from dutch Polygoon-Profilti cinema news reel week 02 , 1930 | Sound & Vision (Open Images).
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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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