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The Dutch people walking on the streets in Netherlands.

A documentary film titled 'The Netherlands' on the geography and the people in the Netherlands. The map of Europe. The map outlines Netherlands. Germany and Belgium also located on the map. Another map locates North and South Holland. Windmills in an area. A man and woman walking on a street with children. The woman with a child in a stroller. Traffic passing on the street. Buildings along the sides of the street. A steam boat underway on a river.

Date: 1940
Duration: 3 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063268
Traditional Christmas parade with Saint Nicholas on horse passes as royal family watches and people cheer in Holland.

A traditional Christmas parade in Amsterdam, Netherlands. St Nicholas (Known as Sinterklaas or Sint-Nicolaas in the Netherlands) seated on a horse and people stand by the side of roads and cheer for him. Honor guards accompany Sinterklaas on horseback. Queen Wilhelmina, Princess Juliana, her children (Beatrix, Irene and Margriet) and husband Prince Bernhard look out from the window of the Royal Palace (Koninklijk Paleis Amsterdam Postbus 3708 1001 AM Amsterdam The Netherlands). A Dutch man holding his daughter. Prince Bernhard smokes a cigar besides Queen Wilhelmina. A mascot dressed as Zwarte Piet (a blackface companion of Sinterklaas) distributes special Sinterklaas-themed sweets to children. The Dutch royal family meets Sinterklaas. Zwarte Piet talks to Princess Irene. The procession moves on streets and Saint Nicholas presents gifts to young children in the crowd.

Date: 1947, December 12
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056295
British RAF bombers of No 2 Group bomb the Philips Electrical works at German-occupied Eindhoven, Holland, during World War II.

Film starts wirh slate reading: "R.A.F. Blasts Holland." At an Royal Air Force (RAF) base in England, United Kingdom, ground crewmen work on a British Supermarine Spitfire aircraft. Closeup of RAF pilot in cockpit of an airplane. Closeups showing fires burning and severe destruction of the Philips Electrical works at Endoven, the Netherlands, in aerial photographs taken during a bombing attack by RAF 2 Group, on December 6, 1942. Animated map illustrates the flight path of the attacking bombers from England, across the North Sea and the German occupied Holland, to Endoven. View of a de Havilland Mosquito bomber with propellers turning and then one of a Mosquito bomber in flight overhead. View from a warship of several RAF 2 Group aircraft flying low over the North sea. Glimpse of a Mosquito bomber flying low enough to affect the ocean surface. View from another aircraft in the formation, of a Mosquito bomber underway low over the water. View of a pilot in a cockpit, wearing learher helmet with earphones and an oxygen mask. View from aircraft approaching the coast of Holland, with two others already low above the mainland. More views of the bombers flying extremely low over Holland. View from a bomber showing agricultural land and the Philips Electrical works at Endoven, dead ahead. German flak guns fire and the bombers return fire by strafing the target building. The camera aircraft pulls up climb above the building and maneuvers over a river and city. Scene shifts to views from a high altitude group of RAF 2 Group, over the target. Views of their bombs bursting on target complex, causing fires and heavy smoke. Scene shifts, again to the bomber aircraft recovering at their home base in England. (Narrator states that 12 aircraft did not make it back.) View of a mosquito bomber crash landed. A severely damaged Lockheed PV-1 Ventura bomber. A crash landed Douglas A-20 Havoc bomber. Air crews conversing after arriving back from the mission. (Note: Losses to 2 Group were heavy, with 14 aircraft brought down by flak and enemy fighters, a 20% loss rate. Three more aircraft crash-landed on returning to England. Fifty-seven aircraft had been damaged and needed repairs.)

Date: 1942, December 6
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059556
Damage to Felix Meritis building and offices of Communist Party of the Netherlands, following riots supporting Hungarian revolution

Damage from protests against the Communist Party of the Netherlands, as supporters of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 rallied in other countries, also, against communism. Scene outside the Felix Meritis hall at 324 Keizersgracht, Centrum, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. Broken glass in a window outside the headquarters offices of the Communist Party of the Netherlands. View in the broken window of bricks, and an edition of the Dutch Communist Party newspaper "De Waarheid." The ledge below the broken window has lettering "...RUWIELEN PLAATSEN S.V.P." A bicycle leaning against the wall beside the damage. A crowd of citizens standing on a bridge. Policemen keep a vigil in front of a looted storefront with broken glass. Sign "Boekhandel" above the storefront. A streetcar or trolley passes in the street in front of the store. Scenes of an injured citizen demonstrator in front of a building by a sign, "P. Filedt Kok Arts". An ambulance passes by a crowd. Another looted building with broken glass. Scenes of police pulling several people out of the Felix Meritis building. Photographers race to capture pictures as police chase away the crowd and onlookers.

Date: 1956, November 4
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035860
Queen Juliana of the Netherlands celebrates her 40th birthday.

Queen Juliana of the Netherlands celebrates her 40th birthday at the Soestdijk Palace (Amsterdamsestraatweg 1, 3744 AA Baarn, Netherlands) in Baarn, Netherlands. Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (husband of Queen Juliana) and their daughters, Princess Beatrix and Princess Irene, accompany Queen Juliana. Many children are gathered outside the royal palace to greet the queen with balloons. Some children present helium balloons to Queen Juliana's daughters. Thousands of balloons are set free in the sky. A small child carrying balloon stands in a window. Small boy holds flowers in hands. Queen Juliana watches the balloons in delight. Prince Bernhard smokes a cigar. Princess Marijke (Princess Christina of the Netherlands), the youngest daughter of Queen Juliana, carrying a balloon while standing in a window. A small Dutch boy brings flowers. People lining up to give flowers to Queen Juliana.

Date: 1949, April 30
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050160
Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard welcome President Rene Coty to the Netherlands

French President Rene Coty arrives at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport for a four-day official visit to the Netherlands. An airplane parked on Schiphol Airport (Evert van de Beekstraat 202, 1118 CP Schiphol, Netherlands). French President Coty comes out of the airplane. Pilots saluting. Soldiers and officials gather at the airport to greet the French president. Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands welcome President Coty. Flags of France and the Netherlands flying on flagpoles. Dutch people clapping. President Coty seated in a horse-drawn carriage with his wife, Germaine Coty. Rene Coty’s parade in Amsterdam. The carriage drives past on a street. People with small French flags gather along the sides of the street to greet President Coty. Children wave towards the French president. Dutch honor guard standing. Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard walking. President Coty waves at Dutch children and adults in front of Garage Ben Maltha in Rotterdam. President Coty waves at people. Prince Bernhard accompanies President Coty.

Date: 1954, July 21
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062760