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Restoration of the "drowned" archives from the disaster area

Week number 53-12

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

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During the North Sea flood of 1953 paper archives were destroyed or heavily damaged and contaminated. Employees of a specialized company restore the preserved or saved remainders of these archives by brushing them of in a cleansing liquid and then drying them with heating equipment.

Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Publication date:
1 March 1953
Length:
01:25

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Contributions:
Bloemendal, Philip (commentaar)
Type:
video
Original format:
Film 
User:
Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
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